graveness
Example Sentences
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"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
Rob Pelinka, his salt-and-pepper stubble conferring an additional shade of graveness, wore it Monday as he talked about the first big decision of the Lakers’ offseason — the firing of coach Frank Vogel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2022
I couldn’t help but like the graveness of Bloom’s intro.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019
"And that is what I am doing right now, explaining the graveness of the situation, and the degree of casualty we would have recorded if we had not acted fast."
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013
The new graveness of what he was pledged to do had, of course, been strongly present in his mind from the first moment of revelation.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
