All 21 Uses of
grave
in
Angels & Demons
- It must be gravity.†
Chpt 17-18 *
- You haven't heard of gravity?†
Chpt 17-18
- Gravity answers a lot of questions.†
Chpt 17-18
- What's gravity?" she demanded.†
Chpt 17-18
- "I am well aware of my responsibilities to the outside world," Olivetti replied, "and it makes this situation no more grave.†
Chpt 43-44
- He had been here many times beneath the Pantheon's oculus and stood before the grave of the great Raphael.†
Chpt 59-60
- RAPHAEL SANTI, 1483-1520 Vittoria studied the grave and then read the one-sentence descriptive plaque beside Raphael's tomb.†
Chpt 61-62
- Gravity had become the mortar of choice, with coffin lids often weighing hundreds of pounds.†
Chpt 81-82
- The grave decisions facing the camerlegno required information …. information entombed in a sarcophagus in the Vatican Grottoes.†
Chpt 83-84
- The guidebooks label this as St. Peter's tomb, but his true grave is two stories beneath us, buried in the earth.†
Chpt 83-84
- No longer fighting gravity to pump blood, Langdon's heart began to slow.†
Chpt 85-86
- He had no doubt that this tiny space behind the tomb would become his grave.†
Chpt 93-94
- Gravity overcame friction, and the lid was the first to go, sliding off the tomb and crashing to the floor beside him.†
Chpt 93-94
- The skeleton hovered a moment, like a tentative lover, and then with a sticky crackling, it succumbed to gravity and peeled away.†
Chpt 93-94
- You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather than our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God's hand in this?†
Chpt 93-94
- Langdon's center of gravity shifted, and his feet swung up off the floor.†
Chpt 107-108
- It was hard to imagine that the original grave had been marked only with a modest shrine.†
Chpt 119-120
- He steadied himself against the magnified drag of gravity as the camerlegno accelerated the craft straight up.†
Chpt 121-122
- As he plummeted toward earth, Robert Langdon felt something he had not experienced since his years on the high dive-the inexorable pull of gravity during a dead drop.†
Chpt 125-126
- Somewhere in the torrent of wind and desperation, Kohler's voice echoed from the grave …. words he had spoken earlier this morning standing at CERN's free-fall tube.†
Chpt 125-126
- Vittoria's hand, tight in his, jolted, while Langdon's mind, already numb with unanswered questions, wrestled to find a center of gravity.†
Chpt 133-134
Definition:
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(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner