How To Use Gravitas In A Sentence
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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It will look superb in the hands of an old bearded fellow, and if you can get him to read from its pages in a tremulant voice it should add some much needed gravitas to the proceedings.
Archive 2005-09-01
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With all their profundity and gravitas, they have striven hard to sanitize all abusage in application yet, pitiably, they seemed to have been overwhelmed by the brutality of the crisis
Undefined
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A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.
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Nothing can match the authority, the augustness, the gravitas of real champagne from France's Champagne region.
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The lack of pictures lends gravitas to the endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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It gives them a gravitas and a warmth and bond.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is pale, dark, and authoritative, with the gravitas you might expect of a Booker prize winner.
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We think that as leaders we are supposed to show gravitas: depth, profundity.
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Medicine and research science are seen as having gravitas, but the skills that support them are not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though addressing serious issues such as the status of women, it is not thick with gravitas.
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The complaints are often petty and unimportant, yet when aired in public, they take on a certain gravitas and momentum.
Times, Sunday Times
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… resounding silence …. same old crap, first from film makers who want us to believe that a female in heels is a good idea as token fuck-pot./superhero. and then from the spewdo-intellectual wankers who cover the bullshit with their ersatz gravitas.
The Moral Exemplars of Watchmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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She received the promotion but the official feedback that came with it was, as she predicted, that she lacked gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unflattering signs of age on her face are emphasized, giving her visage that sense of gravitas associated with old men in old-master paintings.
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They have measured longterm fame by celebrity and gravitas and give equal weight to both.
Times, Sunday Times
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Junior figures lack gravitas - intellectual and political.
Times, Sunday Times
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God (saith [6779] Fulgentius) is delighted in the conversion of a sinner, he sets no time; prolixitas temporis Deo non praejudicat, aut gravitas peccati, deferring of time or grievousness of sin, do not prejudicate his grace, things past and to come are all one to Him, as present: 'tis never too late to repent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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I love the surprises and the gravitas and the brilliance and the wit.
The Sun
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Hunger strikers no longer feel obliged to duplicate the gravitas of such famous trailblazers as the suffragettes and Gandhi.
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There are some who say that blogs lack gravitas, that there is no quality writing, that the analyses are hurried and ill-considered.
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It has a gravitas which brings the crushing weight of history - the recipient risks being squashed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her death, which was handled a bit lightly - I feel it needed more gravitas - altered the arc of the show once again.
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Do you imagine this adds lustre and gravitas to your CVs?
Times, Sunday Times
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It's good to see them treating the story with suitable gravitas.
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Hair colour can give you instant gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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O'Neill's own photograph on the flyleaf of the book shrieks gravitas, but in real life he's a charmer.
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It gave him some gravitas, he felt, to be seen lugging the heavy bag.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think he brought a kind of avuncular approach to "World News Tonight," but I never thought he had a really serious gravitas that he brought to "World News Tonight," and maybe that was just because of who he is, maybe that was just his personality.
CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2009
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Best of all, she's got a playful sensibility that keeps the covers from getting bogged down in overwrought gravitas, no matter the subject.
Jo Chen covers kick ass | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Age is no barrier; it can be a disadvantage in the world of employment but gives a self-employed person gravitas.
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The use of a ciborium, or baldacchino, can be a very effective and particularly dignified way to resolve the matter, giving the altar that due gravitas.
New Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary
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A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.
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He descended to raucous and tasteless personal attacks on the Gandhis and generally showed little dignity, poise or gravitas.
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And the hint is strong that she is the one with sufficient gravitas.
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So, perhaps to bestow gravitas on her, or at least some upper-classiness, the show establishes that she went to Bryn Mawr.
Mad About Mad Men
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She spoke with gravitas about the serious thought and hard work that had gone into making this Easter bonnet parade the event it was.
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Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole plant is suffused with colour and with a gravitas that few other plants can match.
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He is pale, dark, and authoritative, with the gravitas you might expect of a Booker prize winner.
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Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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Medicine and research science are seen as having gravitas, but the skills that support them are not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Haven't they a certain beauty and gravitas?
Times, Sunday Times
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Brecht acknowledges as much when he rather bluntly insists, against Eisler's alleged murmuring about the poems 'mere occasionality or jottedness, on the Hollywoodelegien's compressed monumentality and gravitas: "these are full-scale poems" and "in fact the compositions are probably really important as music too" (Bertolt Brecht Journals 238) .24
Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
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To our understanding, it's a send up of the cultural gravitas and humorless puffery we attach to books, seen through the story of a teenage girl whose wealthy parents commission a novel about her in order to land grant her bibliophilia.
Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion
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A far wider chasm is presented by the production's restless, ceaseless search for gravitas and momentum.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's why big clubs want big name managers with plenty of experience, gravitas and know-how.
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His cry of outrage about the outrage sparked outrage and a stampede for gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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She thinks it will add gravitas to her in her humanitarian work.
The Sun
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To some extent its gravitas derives from the collective deeds, actions, knowledge and experience of its members over the years.
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Fans hope that he will bring a new gravitas and darkness to the plots and fixes that the Doctor finds himself entangled in.
Times, Sunday Times
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He provides the intellectual thrust and gravitas of the arguments of those who oppose monetary and political union.
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Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even if post modernism readily swaps wit and subversion for gravitas and rubbishes the idea of the ‘original’ in art, the question is not invalid.
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Speaking about Rove's latest vexation of conservative momentum, a critical comment he made recently about Sarah Palin's lack of presidential "gravitas," conservative radio show host Mark Levin assailed the former Bush brain, calling him "yesterday's operative" who had a problem keeping his mouth shut.
Karl Rove Bashed By Conservative As 'Our Joe Biden'
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A far wider chasm is presented by the production's restless, ceaseless search for gravitas and momentum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strong Saturnian types exude gravitas and take life seriously.
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Comedi ad satietatem, gravitas me offendit; parcius edi, non est expletum desiderium; venereas delicias sequor, hinc morbus, lassitudo, &c. 3880.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There are some who say that blogs lack gravitas, that there is no quality writing, that the analyses are hurried and ill-considered.
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He is pale, dark, and authoritative, with the gravitas you might expect of a Booker prize winner.
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For now, though, the beard is strictly for purposes of gravitas.
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The emphasis on qualities of manliness, gravitas, and dedication to family began to fade.
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The right beard on the right man can add elegance and gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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He doesn't possess the personal gravitas to speak convincingly of great political ideals.
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Just as the Halloween sequels have been given a certain gravitas by the continuing appearances of Donald Pleasence, the Saw series have always used to the compelling presence of Mr. Bell to give it a certain edge.
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Saw VII 3D (2010)
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How one couchant beast, with its imperturbable gravitas, a heraldic chunk of London itself, moved without lifting a paw, from the site on the south bank of the Thames being cleared for the Festival of Britain in 1951, to Waterloo Station with its martial trappings, and on to its present eminence alongside the decommissioned County Hall.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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The altar, like the ambo is now given greater substantiality and gravitas.
Renovations: St. Mary Church, Marietta, Ohio
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As a songwriter, despite the grandstanding closer Thinking About Tomorrow benefiting from William Orbit's warm remix, she specialises in the unmemorable, while lacking variety and gravitas.
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He brings some gravitas and, in a weird way, credibility.
The Sun
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He also brings a gravitas to the film that may otherwise be dismissed as just a fantasy film.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most readers agree that moving "knelt" to a position of emphasis next to the period lends the sentence some added weight, some "gravitas" if you prefer.
Poynter Online
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This pumpkin has a great more dignity and gravitas than some goofy pumpkin with a toothy grin and a stupid hat.
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What we have here are certain individuals intent on disarraying the public gravitas of things.
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A cardinal is an adviser to the pope, and the cardinalate brings with it a certain degree of gravitas to the role of archbishop of New York," said Phyllis Zagano, a senior research associate at Hofstra University specializing in Catholic studies.
'Humbled' Dolan Is Named Cardinal
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The riveted steel around the image is very nice, gives a nice industrial feel, lends a certain badass gravitas.
Book Cover Smackdown! Zoe's Tale vs. Killswitch vs. Leviathan
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With gravitas that perfectly poises humor and horror, playwright Diana Son's "Stop Kiss", directed by Kristal Greenlea for the Garage Theatre, simultaneously darkens an otherwise enchanting prelude to a first kiss with its sordid aftermath.
James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre
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He is pale, dark, and authoritative, with the gravitas you might expect of a Booker prize winner.
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They have measured longterm fame by celebrity and gravitas and give equal weight to both.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bones contribute albumen and collagen which convert to gelatine and give a good stew its gravitas.
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The leather still lacks gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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And in him, the small screen has discovered an entertainer with gravitas.
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How then to satisfy a general visitor and yet still endow each object with the dignity and gravitas demanded by its place in our heritage?
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Trustees would need to have the gravitas and experience to command respect for their independence.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also brings a gravitas to the film that may otherwise be dismissed as just a fantasy film.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was going to say that gravitas is a quality that I think that journalists worry about and care about.
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PS - If you can get Donnie Wahlberg, even in a cameo to lend some gravitas, I'll be the giddiest girl at the ball.
Davis Sweet: Leaked Pitch to ABC: "The Path to 9/11"
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Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apparently, we prefer a cleanshaven man but accept that a beard 'adds gravitas and social status'.
The Sun
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I am currently considering whether judging the next round of debates in an orange halter-neck top would detract from my gravitas.
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The bank economist presented well and confidently and it must be said with some authority and gravitas.
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Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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It gives you gravitas as a pastor.
Christianity Today
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Many see this as the key to the Times maintaining its integrity, credibility, and gravitas.
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His cry of outrage about the outrage sparked outrage and a stampede for gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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It doesn't matter what kind of poltroon parks his or her butt in the Oval Office, or how they get in there; they will be presented to the people as a figure of moral authority and gravitas -- and be accepted as such by large swathes of the public.
Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
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The timbre is the authoritative essence of Theatrical Knight, one that lent RSC gravitas to Stewart's reign as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise, before he left Hollywood seven years ago to kickstart a late-flourishing classical-theatre phase.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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But it is entertainment given gravitas by a prestigious and distinguished cast.
The Sun
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He doesn't have the grumpy gravitas of William Hartnell, but I detect some homage to his portrayal in the approach taken by Silvester McCoy.
Gibbon Chapter XVI
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There's still prejudice, to be sure, among the media and beard-stroking media critics most of all--what is "gravitas," after all, but Latin for "If we blow up Iran, I don't want to hear about it from a chick"?
Meredith Vieira Gets a New View - Tuned In - TIME.com
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The fruity gravitas of the traditional actor's declamation had become a liability rather than an asset.
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Those flecks of grey add gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have measured longterm fame by celebrity and gravitas and give equal weight to both.
Times, Sunday Times
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This serious work is given the required sense of space and gravitas in a fine performance.
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Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps his tone is not quite what it was, but he imbued the role with immense gravitas and dignity.
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It has the magic property of always being cooler than the surrounding atmosphere, which gives it a sense of mordant gravitas and wisdom.
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The mood turns particularly sombre in the closing tracks, in which slower tempos, brooding bottlenecks and a doomy swirl of synthesisers lend gravitas to songs that dwell on destruction and death.
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There is no doubt that the actors' backing adds gravitas and urgency to the strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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What about my experience and gravitas?
Times, Sunday Times
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He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
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Those flecks of grey add gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was most struck, though, by the buttons Brown was most eager to press: references to steadfastness and so on to emphasise his gravitas compared with Cameron's "fluffiness"; calls to national unity/common purpose designed to imply that if you, young Dave, are against me then you are against us all.
Brown Trounces Ming at PMQs
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Interstellar Signals" had more gravitas, with Mr. Colley playing arco bass and Mr. Rogers extracting theremin-like sounds from his floorboard electronics set-up.
The Sound Way Down in the Underground
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To outward appearance, there is a certain lack of gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Deep, wide mounts and frames give a work of art a gravitas that clip frames never manage.
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Those flecks of grey add gravitas.
Times, Sunday Times
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His great form, so flat and irresistible, along with those of the sofa and the desk, has all the weight and gravitas of a Florentine fresco.
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They have measured longterm fame by celebrity and gravitas and give equal weight to both.
Times, Sunday Times
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With gravitas that perfectly poises humor and horror, Diana Son's "Stop Kiss" at the Garage Theatre simultaneously darkens an otherwise enchanting prelude to a first kiss with its sordid aftermath.
James Scarborough: Stop Kiss, The Garage Theatre
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You acquire gravitas and project it like a cologne whenever you discuss the singular and laudable Salomon Brothers culture.
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To start with, he took a bold step in making a high-budget epic in black and white, which was commercially risky but added a great deal of gravitas.
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With an eye on longevity, the book is written entirely in the past tense, which also helps give it an impressive and immediate air of gravitas.
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This is a well written, well structured piece of writing, given added gravitas by its background of being a resignation letter.
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His gravitas, offset with a flickering irony, gives the production a strong moral centre.
