gravitas
Example Sentences
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Far from an indignity, I thought it lent a certain gravitas otherwise absent from my banal demeanor.
The poignancy of “Stand by Me,” the authenticity and gravitas he invested in this story of youth, makes it a personal triumph — his funny father couldn’t, and wouldn’t, have directed anything like it.
From Los Angeles Times
He is well-known for speaking candidly in ways that CEOs with less gravitas wouldn’t.
From Barron's
He has so much gravitas that each tiny adjustment of his expressions is riveting.
Occasionally, a long-lost sense of gravity will emerge for a sweeping moment of gravitas.
From Salon
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