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.

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

  • … 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."

  • Meanwhile, on the USAT front Barbara Bush mounts a defense of George W.'s gravitas: "People don't know that he is a very smart history buff and that's what he reads."

  • Critics feel Wesley Snipes lacks the gravitas to replace Harrison Ford as a falsely accused man on the lam, though some claim that Tommy Lee Jones, as the U.S. marshal who chases him, saves the film.


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