All 9 Uses of
grave
in
Brave New World
- Hinted at the gravity of the so-called "trauma of decanting," and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suitable training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock.
p. 13..0gravity = seriousness
- Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous.
p. 22..9grave = serious
- "Mother," he repeated loudly rubbing in the science; and, leaning back in his chair, "These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it."
p. 24..4gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.
p. 31..4gravely = seriously and solemnly
- He looked at her in silence, his face unresponsive and very grave–looked at her intently.
p. 92..3 *grave = serious
- "Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day," she said gravely.
p. 93..9gravely = seriously
- There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep and so beautiful in the midst of her curls, so touchingly childish with her pink toes and her grave sleeping face, so trustful in the helplessness of her limp hands and melted limbs, that the tears came to his eyes.
p. 143..9grave = serious
- But the Director's face, as he entered the Fertilizing Room with Henry Foster, was grave, wooden with severity.
p. 147..8grave = serious and solemn
- "Besides," he added more gravely, "I wanted to do a bit of propaganda; I was trying to engineer them into feeling as I'd felt when I wrote the rhymes."
p. 180..8gravely = seriously
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