graveness

Example Sentences

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There’s an underlying tension in the show because it walks a line between silliness and graveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

"His sobriety, his graveness, his hallowedness, is so foreign to our modern sensibilities — but that's the point. That is the precise point."

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2022

“The graveness of the visage,” The Sydney Gazette wrote in 1803, “would seem to indicate a more than ordinary portion of animal sagacity.”

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2020

I couldn’t help but like the graveness of Bloom’s intro.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2019

By descent he springs immediately from the common people of his native province to whose life he has so often given the graveness of tragedy and the permanence of literature.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart