Example sentences for: gravitas

How can you use “gravitas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clearly there is an increasing sense of Y2K gravitas among the big dailies: There was yesterday's NYT lead editorial calling for congressional creation of tax incentives and subsidies for solutions, and the Post lead is the second in a series.

  • … The Indian achievement is a combination of lightness and gravitas, of bridging the gap between the highbrow and the middlebrow, and rediscovering for itself the inextricable link between the body, mind and soul."

  • They lament the passing of an alleged era when figures of towering prestige and gravitas would swoop in like superheroes when democracy had tied itself in one too many knots.

  • The Ohioan lacks "gravitas" but is passionate, good with people, highly religious, and an outsider--all positives in the election game.

  • Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.


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