All 6 Uses of
grave
in
Three Cups of Tea
- And after staying up at all-night jirgas with village elders and weighing in on proposals for new projects, or showing a classroom full of excited eight-year-old girls how to use the first pencil-sharpener anyone has ever cared to give them, or teaching an impromptu class on English slang to a roomful of gravely respectful students, it is impossible to remain simply a reporter.†
Chpt Intr.
- He rolled them inside a cloth and gravely instructed the driver to shelter the tools safely in the cab all the way to Skardu.†
Chpt 7
- "You can't tell the mountains what to do," he said, with an air of gravity that transfixed Mortenson as much as the view.†
Chpt 12
- Ordinarily, the cleric carried himself with a grave dignity and released words with the same measured regularity with which he fingered his tasbih, or string of prayer beads.
Chpt 17 *grave = serious and solemn
- But his face, as he approached, was uncharacteristically grave, and his mouth was set like a vein of quartz in granite.†
Chpt 17
- With Twaha, Mortenson knelt by the fresh grave to pay his respects to Korphe's fallen chief, whose heart had given out sometime in what Twaha thought was his father's eighth decade.†
Chpt 19
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