All 16 Uses of
grave
in
Tender is the Night
- After a while she realized that the man in the jockey cap was giving a quiet little performance for this group; he moved gravely about with a rake, ostensibly removing gravel and meanwhile developing some esoteric burlesque held in suspension by his grave face.†
Chpt 1.1
- After a while she realized that the man in the jockey cap was giving a quiet little performance for this group; he moved gravely about with a rake, ostensibly removing gravel and meanwhile developing some esoteric burlesque held in suspension by his grave face.†
Chpt 1.1
- "I don't know," she answered with a grave face.
Chpt 1.13grave = serious and solemn
- She was a red-haired girl from Tennessee whom they had met on the train this morning, come from Knoxville to lay a memorial on her brother's grave.†
Chpt 1.13
- Then if I were you I'd just lay it on any grave without looking at the name," Dick advised her.†
Chpt 1.13
- She left the wreath on the first grave inside the gate, and accepted Dick's suggestion that she dismiss her taxi-cab and ride back to Amiens with them.†
Chpt 1.13
- The noble dignity of Abe's face took on a certain stubbornness, and he remarked with determination: "Oh, no. He paused gravely.†
Chpt 1.14
- "Such a lovely child," he said gravely.†
Chpt 1.15
- Cutting across the social mood of Casasus with the intensity he had accumulated at the glass desk—which is to say he looked hard at the check, studying it, and then fixed his eyes on grave problems beyond the first marble pillar to the right of the banker's head and made a business of shifting the cane, hat, and letters he carried—he said good-by and went out.
Chpt 1.20grave = serious and solemn
- An instinct made Dick suck back the grave derision that formed on his tongue; he asked the waiter to find out who they were.†
Chpt 1.22
- Gravely she returned his gaze, taking in his somewhat proud carriage that never quite yielded to the wooden post against which he leaned; she looked into his face that always tried to discipline itself into molds of attentive seriousness, after excursions into joys and mockeries of its own.†
Chpt 2.7
- As water gushed from the chamber under the car, Dick was impressed with the ingenuity of the whole idea—a complimentary car was now taking on mountain water at the top and would pull the lightened car up by gravity, as soon as the brakes were released.†
Chpt 2.8
- They started back with a hot sorrow streaming down upon them; the car was weighted with their mutual apprehension and anguish, and the children's mouths were grave with disappointment.†
Chpt 2.15
- She slowed her voice to fit the gravity of what she was about to say: "Dick is no longer a serious man."†
Chpt 3.1
- He inspected the oblong white torso joined abruptly to the brown limbs and head, and said, laughing gravely: "You are all new like a baby."†
Chpt 3.8
- Dick nodded gravely, looking at the stone floor, like a priest in the confessional--
Chpt 3.10 *gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
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