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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."
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.
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.
… 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."
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.