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gravitas

[grav-i-tahs, ‐tas]

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noun

seriousness or sobriety, as of conduct or speech.

Origin:
1920–25; < Latin gravitās; see gravity

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When you go to an academic conference you expect to see some geeks, gravitas and graying professors giving lectures.

The times call for leaders of great ability and significant gravitas.

The gravitas of the candidates and the sharpness of their policy differences have both increased over the past few months.

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When you go to an academic conference you expect to see some geeks, gravitas and graying professors giving lectures.

The times call for leaders of great ability and significant gravitas.

The gravitas of the candidates and the sharpness of their policy differences have both increased over the past few months.

She would give our diplomatic outreach a power and gravitas that it hasn't had for years.

In the eye of the writer that one little syllable add so much gravitas.

The next act is therefore about giving the juvenile lead some gravitas.

Wright's older patrons, the focus of the next gallery, have more gravitas.

However, not all science and technology boasts a similar degree of gravitas.

Courter alone will have to lend the board its political gravitas.

Time to jump back a generation, and seek a leader with vigour, white hair and gravitas.

He was, clearly, oblivious to the gravitas of the day.

They wear their gravitas with commendable lightness.

Meanwhile, rebel leaders sought to project control, continuity and gravitas.

We need a body that has the gravitas and perspective to do this, and another elected body will not work.

In fact, a certain amount of beefiness can even give them the authority and gravitas that a skinny man can have trouble conveying.

In the script writer's attempt to add pensive gravitas to the rapper's.

Freeman's director embodies the gravitas that by the middle of the film should rub off on his protégé but doesn't.

Speier stepped to the podium, and with the moral gravitas of those who have suffered, offered the following remarks:.

No matter that few of his faction in parliament have the gravitas even to join an effective cabinet.

It's a gravitas issue, and at this point in his life and career.

The final stage, a square platform perched high above the ground, lent gravitas to the exceptionally strong clothes it carried.

Kahn found a way to give modern architecture gravitas.

Friends say he has had to practise putting on the veneer of gravitas and self-certainty required by central bankers.

At this point, any pretense of subway gravitas is lost.

There are more talented people in the leader's entourage, but none yet of the gravitas to counter such impressions.

Journalists once had to achieve a certain gravitas before appearing on television as a political expert, but not anymore.

Beach had trained as an actor, and his impeccable diction lent the show a certain cantankerous gravitas.

He brought a widely discussed gravitas to his role as anchor until he left the show.

Laurents achieves some gravitas by landing a few political jabs.

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gravitas (ˈɡrævɪˌtæs)

—n
	seriousness, solemnity, or importance

[C20: from Latin gravitās weight, from gravis heavy]

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