graveness
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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
"No, Uncle Richard's not much like papa," said Noll, with sudden graveness; "but he loves me, and—and I hope you'll like him, Ned."
From Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord
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