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- "I am representing the Ulema and Tablighian and Taliban," Mullah Ghulamullah said, referring to not just one but two organizations of Muslim scholars to give himself gravitas.† (source)
- But the death lacks gravitas.† (source)
- If I can get an audience to laugh and clap at the right time, maybe that would add gravitas to what I'm telling the kids."† (source)
- All his gravitas from the Third Trial has morphed into a poisonous vitriol.† (source)
- I think it lends you a certain …. gravitas.† (source)
- The man was in his fifties and carried the heft and gravitas of a long government career in a field that did not include paper pushing or staple counting.† (source)
- Urbanization and education had introduced in W.W. a gravitas, an exaggerated courtliness, the neck and body flexed, primed for the deep bow, and conversation full of the sighs of someone whose heart had been broken.† (source)
- Eriksson was fine, but she lacked the experience and gravitas of Berger.† (source)
- I tried to picture him with his books on his way to philosophy classes, hurrying past the Thinker, several tons of gravitas that might have said to a less experienced undergraduate, "This is what thinking looks like."† (source)
- Clearing his throat, he spoke with the stentorian gravitas of a Roman orator.† (source)
- I'll watch your back, she'd said, with all the gravitas of a Cadet.† (source)
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- It is astonishing how a black crepe robe worn over a coat or a blouse gives a Cockney punter or a Covent Garden flower girl the gravitas of an Oxford don.† (source)
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