graveness

The graveness of his face seemed to awaken her suspicions.

The literal graveness of the situation (the funeral) subsides to the humor.

For some families of those killed, the graveness of the loss was deepened by a knowledge that their soldier had been on the way home.

Much changed, I hear, Had put off levity and put graveness on.

Gaspar laughed like a little boy, all the graveness and authority from a second ago gone from his face.

He took her hand with the sympathetic, reassuring graveness which had helped her at more than one hard time in her life.

The graveness of the situation is also indicated by the dialectical style with which Malachi confronts his audience.

If the rain descends from murky clouds, you will feel alarmed over the graveness of your undertakings.

She looked up into Lense's eyes, her expression showing a graveness that seemed beyond her years.

Graveness took her too.

Dralin smiled at the graveness of the cub.

"Now," he said, with bland graveness, "we have all read the report prepared by General Coldri's people."

The boy knew of Knave's graveness, and the dignity that emanated from his solid, dependable presence, but never had he seen the dog show humility.

Despite the graveness of the crisis, the government is unable to implement useful programs to ease the destitution in the country, especially those living in the rural areas.

"These six Wise Ones will give judgment after hearing both sides," Sevanna told Kinhuin with a graveness to match his.

"We've all been inundated by the seriousness of AIDS and overwhelmed by the graveness of it, and so it's time to look at it a little bit differently."

Meanwhile in France, Charles VI, the King of France and his noblemen discuss the graveness of King Henry's threats.

Commandant Le Tacon, who had been responsible for organising the local SRM, had been unable to understand the graveness of the predicament despite several warnings.

A few lines cannot suggest the graveness, chased with charm, that animates his elegy for David Kalstone, an elegy that begins, "Lime-and-mint mayonnaise and salsa verde."

En route to the hospital, Hill flashed a "thumbs-down" signal and shook his head from side to side at the agents in the follow-up car, signaling the graveness of the President's condition.

Harrison's approach to athleticism, a fascination with flight and an attitude against graveness called "Be AIRful" culminates in an overall purview he calls the AntiGravity philosophy.

An extract from the paper about the first Koala to be captured told of the "graveness of the visage", which "would seem to indicate a more than ordinary portion of animal sagacity".

He reported that there was no chance, based on what he ascertained on arriving at the scene, that Senna could have been saved due to the graveness of the head injury he had suffered.

She is voiced by Jennifer Dawne Graveness, taking over for Heidi Ernest (the original voice of Fleet Command in the first game and in the training missions for Cataclysm).

Of course, I could have thrown a rock through one of his windows, or cursed his parentage, or even turned abruptly from him, but all that would have been overkill for the graveness of his offense.