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gravitas
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • All his gravitas from the Third Trial has morphed into a poisonous vitriol.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • Clearing his throat, he spoke with the stentorian gravitas of a Roman orator.†  (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)
  • Eriksson was fine, but she lacked the experience and gravitas of Berger.†  (source)
  • I'll watch your back, she'd said, with all the gravitas of a Cadet.†  (source)
  • 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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