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Science, which had been far more advanced than in Europe, was so gravely neglected that China became a technological backwater.
Somewhat caliginous, Lawerence replied gravely, but not altogether inspissated.
Elliott, however, gravely warns us that you and I do not really decide a direction when it comes to matters of enhancement.
TV critics, at least the political-minded ones, opine gravely that Roseanne 's cancellation proves that a complacent America has lost its appetite for "real-life," "blue-collar" characters, that all TV viewers want now are 3 rd Rock From the Sun aliens and Seinfeld yuppies.
The WP , which has been spearheading another story also posing trouble for Gore, namely, that of his White House rainmaking phone calls, sees the story a bit more gravely than the others.