graveness

Example Sentences

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There’s an underlying tension in the show because it walks a line between silliness and graveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

"His sobriety, his graveness, his hallowedness, is so foreign to our modern sensibilities — but that's the point. That is the precise point."

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2022

“The graveness of the visage,” The Sydney Gazette wrote in 1803, “would seem to indicate a more than ordinary portion of animal sagacity.”

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2020

I couldn’t help but like the graveness of Bloom’s intro.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2019

“And to every one of us,” said Cheyne, with a curious graveness they afterwards remembered.

From The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Bindloss, Harold