But it never dispels tension when a scene needs tension or undercuts gravitas when a scene needs gravitas.
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The probability of going out of business of funds with the highest level of gravitas is more than 5 percent higher than those whose names have no gravitas.
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The even funnier part, it backfires: funds with positive gravitas exposure in their names underperform those with negative gravitas by almost 1 percent of alpha, or outperformance, a year.
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Nightcap: The latest news and political buzz from CNN Politics | Sign up Chance for gravitas Trump's trip had loomed as a chance for him to show some gravitas on the global stage.
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And it found an audience that gravitated toward its gravitas.
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Patrick Stewart has always brought such gravitas to the character.
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Mr Woodward brings decades of Washington gravitas to the job.
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Despite his gravitas with donors, he struggled to collect money.
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Because it hurts to watch, and that pain has gravitas.
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Women who talked about women's lives did not possess gravitas.
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But at times, the puppetry robs scenes of emotional gravitas.
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Morgan Freeman once again lends gravitas to a penguin documentary.
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And the KGB want to add gravitas to this lie.
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Musicians need a certain gravitas and focus in order to write.
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I don't know if I convey that same sort of gravitas.
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But critics say he lacks the gravitas of a true leader.
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And what's the fastest way to give something gravitas and rigor?
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It's great to see bar food get treated with such gravitas.
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The Tuesday Group, perhaps by nature, doesn't carry the same gravitas.
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Being an astronaut is heavy on gravitas, though low on gravity.
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Perico has an aged hustler's gravitas that surpasses his 31 years.
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Pitchers with gravitas are occasionally paired with catchers of their choice.
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They each use a prickly gravitas and fearlessness to challenge guests.
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A melodramatist preoccupied with vintage soundtracks, American roots music and gravitas.
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But they leave something to be desired in terms of gravitas.
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He is a bit aloof, marked more by gravitas than familiarity.
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Great actor, instant integrity, loads of warmth, intelligence, complexity and gravitas.
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"You can showcase gravitas in voice, language and attire," she says.
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As the loot escalated, so, too, did the gravitas of the announcements.
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"He's somebody with gravitas who's been on both sides of the table."
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Hunter has not reopened her photography business since the Gravitas Works incident.
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But on matters of such gravitas, the legal tests can move swiftly.
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LoveDespite your famous gravitas, you are devilishly good at sensual, sexy romance.
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Few people sing with as much purpose and gravitas as David Bazan.
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Interestingly the gravitas funds have higher management fees and lower incentive fees.
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The challenge of the journey itself imbues the end goal with gravitas.
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"People seem to like the gravitas in the voice," Ms. Collins said.
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Brimming with life force, generosity, humor, gravitas and a fountain of talent.
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Lonergan expertly illustrates the drama and gravitas of life at Lisa's age.
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It gives the songs where she's the narrator a little more gravitas.
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Sure, there is the mighty Jupiter, with its spectacular patterns and gravitas.
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It gives additional gravitas to the job of being a museum guide.
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That useful tension is also the result of Mr. Henderson's immense gravitas.
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Nevertheless, I will certainly miss his cool, his poise and his gravitas.
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This gives extra gravitas to even their most obtuse assertions about Trump.
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That gives this entire process more historical gravitas and much higher stakes.
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That poured an added air of mystery and gravitas into the mix.
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Second, when democracy is threatened, a monarch's historical gravitas can help protect it.
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On one hand, the leader: statesmanlike (ahem), commanding, well-spoken, imbued with gravitas.
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I didn't have to demonstrate gravitas or appear to be from another generation.
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The interview was widely disparaged on social media for a lack of gravitas.
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Some magistrates, meanwhile, reckon that video links lack the gravitas of a court.
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Gravel has gravitas, if nothing else, on the issues he cares most about.
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It gave the festival a certain gravitas to know that she was there.
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She came armed with gravitas borne of experience and an accolade-ridden resume.
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"The New York Times name lends a certain kind of gravitas," says Miller.
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Their relationship, at once fraught and friendly, provided much of the series' gravitas.
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The point is, Lucas has a unique brand of gravitas in the organization.
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None of this would work without Richard Thomas's soft-spoken gravitas as Benzinger.
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His lesser stories have the gravitas of a magazine subscription blow-in card.
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The repeating motif lends a gravitas that belies the house's relatively recent vintage.
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Architecture is the opposite of that — we're kind of in a gravitas business.
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Her pulpit gravitas would have brought down the house at a political convention.
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When laws are routinely ignored or not consistently enforced, they lose their gravitas.
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DARGIS The presumption of gravitas is a matter of both subject and swagger.
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They convey both the gravitas and sheer joy of reviving the beloved franchise.
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But they lack the gravitas of the earlier letters, and the wit fizzles.
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The whole thing lacks an appropriate level of portent, gravitas and, yes, drama.
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Digging in to convey gravitas, Mr. Dudamel led a teeming, even Mahlerian performance.
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"I'm not sure he (Ayers) has the gravitas to do that," Whipple said.
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If that happens, West's opinions and gravitas might as well have stayed in Oakland.
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It's that build-up; it's Tyrion outside the door, which gives it incredible gravitas.
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Verdict: Definitely monumental, but lacking in some of the gravitas of the movement's originators.
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With the gorillas, I feel like there's much more depth and calm and gravitas.
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With a lot of gravitas, he's a great listener, he's relatable and extremely handsome.
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There are signs though that investors become less sensitive to hedge funds' name gravitas.
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Know that the 911's precision and gravitas are on a whole different level.
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With his sonorous baritone, Mass brought gravitas to even the most mundane meteorological concepts.
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Hillary is portrayed by a black actress, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, who exudes convincing gravitas.
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It was a lot more exciting – it had a lot more gravitas to it.
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One doesn't play LCD Soundsystem albums for direct expression, of course, nor for gravitas.
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The dignity and gravitas she projected onstage were qualities she carried with her everywhere.
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Klobuchar grows on people as a candidate but she, too, may need more gravitas.
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Instead, you'll find a word beginning with any one of the letters in GRAVITAS.
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For the first time, she'd have to face him again — so she wore Gravitas.
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The second trait, gravitas, is all about presence and the way you carry yourself.
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At intermission, I watched a tutorial for the Chase Bliss Gravitas guitar effects pedal.
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Your content, if it is good, will create immediate gravitas with these Power Relationships.
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He recently ordered a "bunch of cheap ties," he said, to lend some gravitas.
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Mr. Bell takes to the role with deadpan gravitas and lands jokes with dexterity.
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Sackhoff does her best to deliver emotional performances and bring gravitas to the clunky scripts.
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You might wonder whether this sequence is being used to infuse Watchmen with false gravitas.
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He could also offer international gravitas, having until January been president of the European Parliament.
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More than just a pretty face, Kelly channels Pippin with a surprising level of gravitas.
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That gravitas that was needed for him to function as an observer and a novelist.
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They not only hold gravitas, they are the color palette of speed and illegal deeds.
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His focus on foreign affairs may partly be designed to imbue his youthfulness with gravitas.
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Today, a steamy frank is launched with the gravitas and spectacle of the latest smartphone.
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See the clips featuring him and Goat above, and marvel at his gravitas while sloshed.
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The heavy, black moleskin fabric that comprises the structure's exterior gives the work mysterious gravitas.
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Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, recognisable figures with some gravitas, have come out for it.
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These are parlous times, and we look to public voices for dignity, intelligence and gravitas.
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Can that lend gravitas to the disclosure and, if so, just how does that play?
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The Legislature must also select someone who has the gravitas to work with federal prosecutors.
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The Mexican history embedded in the video is what gives this show real gravitas, though.
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If you are losing a gravitas battle to Donald Trump, you are really in trouble.
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Luiselli's project feels like a good-faith exercise; Foer's like a craven bid for gravitas.
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Plus, it's an early example of the Shakespearean gravitas Patrick Stewart regularly brought to TNG.
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Blocboy's deep, vibrant shouts add contrast and gravitas, a musical anchor in a swirling sea.
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But no matter what, they reap the benefits of borrowed gravitas from that source material.
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Adding gravitas to the tour is Mr. Chatah's own painful link to the city's history.
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Here are some examples of funds with gravitas in their names: And here are some without gravitas, according to the research: Hedge fund assets hit an all-time high over $3 trillion at the end of last year, Hedge Fund Research said in January.
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"When you look at leadership, the top three, you've got to look at gravitas," said Rep.
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The final package is a curious mix of luxury and gravitas, swirled together with unfettered joy.
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Businesses like Gravitas Works that disseminate outrage and misinformation do so because it is really lucrative.
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She reminds me of my aunties: their lilting accents, their maternal gravitas, their frank, hearty laughs.
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Veteran actors Rajat Kapoor and Ratna Pathak Shah add the right gravitas as their squabbling parents.
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Best Supporting Actress: Caitlyn Jenner The phrase "Hey Kourtney" has never carried such weight and gravitas.
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But I would be lying if I claimed to know how much real gravitas he has.
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Despite the show's overall comedic tone, it handled its biggest ideas with gravitas and sincere emotion.
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Like certain great first-growth wines, more gravitas, or indeed investment skill, is bought than exists.
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But nobody has figured out how to lend virtual reality the same kind of communal gravitas.
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He bore a certain gravitas that matched the solemnity of the occasion and issues facing society.
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And the way I'm reciting it, it's not big emotional recitation—it has a certain gravitas.
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Where other filmmakers rely on buckets of gore and frenetic editing, Verbinski applies gravitas and precision.
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She is thirty-six, and has a knack for projecting both youthful joy and grownup gravitas.
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There are other outlets, to be sure, but nothing has quite the gravitas of a Tweet.
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Formal gravitas, palimpsests, allegories: I suppose that's a lot to attribute to the expression 'an eyeful.
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Stallone's head was furrowed with scars; his street-wise gravitas commanded respect from the other dogs.
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It shattered the illusion that if Mr. Pence had no gravitas, he at least had principles.
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But Hollywood remains committed to granting the presumption of gravitas almost exclusively to stories about men.
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These pieces are more modest, but almost as effective at pairing insurgent outsider with institutional gravitas.
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But I think Bloomberg has it, and he's got the money and he's got the gravitas.
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There is no one in the House Democratic caucus with enough gravitas to seriously challenge her.
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The Oval Office, which can confer gravitas on a typical president, simply saps this atypical one.
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He was easygoing, with enough gravitas to counterbalance his silliness, and she was drawn to the combination.
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Not any old woman, a woman with the gravitas, with the experience, someone who is a unifier.
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Well, not "in poop" because there's a certain amount of gravitas we wanted to lend to science.
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Their archetypal stories were familiar and comforting, but there was some real weight and gravitas there, too.
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Scott has the necessary gravitas to play Jasmine, and her chemistry with Massoud is natural and romantic.
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Even blocking and filtering efforts by carriers are rendered futile due to the gravitas of the problem.
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He needs a chief of staff with the experience and gravitas to help compensate for his shortcomings.
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Even his flattest abstractions possess a gravitas of the paint surface and a sheer weight as objects.
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It's not a press conference and it's not a campaign rally, so can we expect more gravitas?
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The researchers went on to investigate whether funds with more name gravitas outperform those with weaker names.
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Rather than just being a straight-up epic fantasy, it's a story with considerable gravitas and meaning.
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The episode is a preposterous black hole in the middle of the comedy, a grasping at gravitas.
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Call it gravitas, call it whatever, but it was something he was uniquely capable of pulling off.
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His gravitas was a reminder of all that has been lost in the tacky Trump White House.
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Didier William's slithery forms surge forth and recede within a sphere of visual gravitas — heaving, throbbing, breathing.
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From the first words Beale utters, he projects a lifetime of assumed gravitas now shading into burnout.
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The moody palette lends gravitas, while the rich tones of skin and vegetation jump off the canvasses.
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His voice, a velvety soprano, is both soothing and capable of lending emotional gravitas to a song.
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Mostly millennials, they displayed a dinner-party-appropriate gravitas: pocket squares, bottles of wine for Ms. Larsson.
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Yet he did those things Wednesday, and he did so with meaning that surpassed the game's gravitas.
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In cultivating and fostering these economic relationships, America established its gravitas and reputation on the world stage.
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News bloopers that feed the soul leave highly polished newscasters trained to embody unwavering gravitas completely shook.
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However, Kelly's lack of political gravitas and acumen could portend his demise in Washington's top political job.
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There's no denying that Beaton brought to fashion photography a certain intellectual gravitas that was hitherto unseen.
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Adam Driver embodies that tonal duality as Stallworth's partner, alternately a source of gravitas and comic relief.
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One couldn't help but wonder if their inclusion was driven by the compulsion for big name gravitas.
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If there's one person who knows how to lend a voice-over narration some gravitas, it's Morgan Freeman.
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Thank you Malcolm for all of the spit and fire, passion, ferocity, gravitas, and for the eternal inspiration.
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After the gravitas of Gosling's statements, the audience sees the host-to-be at 30 Rock's security desk.
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"They're going to look for somebody with serious gravitas, who has connections and knows the players," he said.
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It would be unwise to underestimate his ability to feign gravitas and transform himself into an apparent centrist.
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It's time that we embrace and embody the gravitas, humility, and respect that this notation carries with it.
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Most of them struck us as childish junk, but a few stood out as objects with adult gravitas.
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" And Sally Blount, dean at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, says, "I used to love the word 'gravitas.
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Your throat closes it off and doesn't give you the power and the gravitas you need for leadership.
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But as you say, the gravitas and blank slateyness of January 1st is by far the most powerful.
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There's something marvelously suburban and parochial about "She's Leaving Home," a song whose inappropriate cheer deflates orchestral gravitas.
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Like Adams, Trump's calls for curtailing the expansive gravitas of the First Amendment didn't stop on the trail.
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So it was largely a serious affair in which Kennedy, only 43, seemed most interested in portraying gravitas.
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He was too shallow, too callow, too inexperienced, and did not have the gravitas necessary for the position.
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Wagner, a senior member of the GOP whip team, would bring gravitas, political savvy and a huge rolodex.
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In a public health crisis that demands facts, leadership and gravitas, President Donald Trump riffs -- and he tweets.
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And he put folds in his skin and a degree of sagginess to suggest the gravitas of age.
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They don't want a jury to recognize the day-to-day gravitas possessed even by an indicted defendant.
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"And Amazon only ... made that statement even more true because they have a lot of gravitas these days."
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Unlike most luxury apparel lines, Gravitas clothing comes in sizes 0 to 20143W — hence the surplus of mannequins.
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But buying that policy had more gravitas than any other of those big adulting moves I&aposd made.
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The show grants him more gravitas, mainly by emphasizing the complex intersection of his private and public selves.
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Nor, frankly, does he summon enough gravitas to be persuasive in the role of a grief-maddened father.
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In the final essay, "Skepticism and Affirmation," Scanlon writes with gravitas, dignity, and gentleness — and why shouldn't she?
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But it also feels ever more like the series exploits the pain of its characters of color to try to give itself moral gravitas — even though it already has moral gravitas, due to its portrayal of how broken the prison system is and how inherent that portrayal is to the series.
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Much has been made of Françoise Grossen's clever intertwining of the gravitas and aesthetics of contemporary art with craft.
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"It needed to be someone kind, inspirational, motivating, funny, with gravitas and as much depth as levity," Markle writes.
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By bringing in Gilt, the Canadian department-store owner is looking to take advantage of the site's digital gravitas.
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Hunter is certain she wasn't targeted by Gravitas Works, the agency behind the fake page, for her political beliefs.
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The latest add-on Motorola's Moto Z line brings some serious photo taking gravitas to the compelling modular offering.
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Instead of the bookshelves, columns, and curtains meant to give other presidential portraits imperial gravitas, he sits amid greenery.
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Mr Gandhi still faces an uphill battle to impress voters as a statesman of equal gravitas to Mr Modi.
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The Rocky franchise has often brought a startling amount of gravitas and humanity to the underdog-sports-movie genre.
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You only can imagine that these young guys have that much gravitas in their souls to portray these parts.
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To add some gravitas to the whole project, famed songwriter Diane Warren will co-executive produce One Hit Wendy.
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Not all of it is lamblike, though — the new releases include both lighthearted fare and offerings with some gravitas.
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She is also, arguably, the face of what a sham that gravitas can be; people simply don't trust her.
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They both bring a seriousness and gravitas to the presidential discussion that is sorely lacking on the Republican side.
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She won "jobs with real gravitas" — such as her Oscar-winning role in Monster — despite being, you know, stunning.
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Mr. Olmos suggests gravitas and a weighty past simply by the way Felipe carries himself around his butcher shop.
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In "Bird," he again leans on the gravitas of King to pivot from the pain caused by sexual misconduct.
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If he lacks gravitas for the role, well, it's hard to be deep when you're dancing in cabana shorts.
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Word of the Day : formality in bearing and appearance _________ The word gravitas has appeared in 70 articles on NYTimes.
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Suddenly the evening meal had gravitas and urgency, becoming essential not only for nourishment but for maintaining family accord.
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"I knew the gravitas of that day," he said, "and I had to finish entering it in my book."
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There came a point in Morrison's life when her very portrait became a kind of shorthand for literary gravitas.
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But these robots aren't the mechanical humanoid that rumbles into the situation with the steady gravitas of a tank.
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It took Ava DuVernay's vision and tenacity to bring it to the big screen with proper sweep and gravitas.
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There is something Wagnerian about all this, and not just in its expansiveness and the gravitas of its utterance.
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He takes full advantage of his gravitas to deliver a blustery courtroom monologue against sentencing the killers to death.
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Any bizarre statement and grand proclamation is treated with a gravitas and twist of logic few others benefit from.
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There came a point in Morrison's life when her very portrait became a kind of shorthand for literary gravitas.
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And his long service gave him extra gravitas as he became a leading voice against the war in Iraq.
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Stick around long enough, and you acquire a certain gravitas, no matter how ragged and unpretentious you may be.
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It's a series convinced of its own gravitas that doesn't seem to realize how much of the original's gravitas was tied up in that specific group of characters — especially Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer, a one-man stand-in for an America that felt as if its moral compass had been ripped away.
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But one member of the bandwagon offers the gravitas that comes with nearly 50 years of building real life airplanes.
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" At the same time, he noted, it's "something that I think carries gravitas in the minds of the general public.
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Oyelowo has a grim gravitas that makes it easy to see him as the strained leader of a disintegrating crew.
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Ever since Starbucks elevated the cup of coffee, "Q graders," the mandarins of the Arabica bean, have achieved similar gravitas.
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Barlow, Kasztelan, and Scieszka lack the gravitas of the traditional "fine art" aesthetic — which, too, is meant as a compliment.
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Forget the sidelined demons hiding inside diamonds and Chanel outfits, the sassy supporting characters, and Susan Sarandon's aunt with gravitas.
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It's funny that this Christine part has given me some kind of gravitas that I feel like I already had.
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"Banks earlier had power to initiate insolvency proceedings, but they were unwilling," said Sujeet Das, a partner at Gravitas Legal.
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The band's brooding rock sound has lent emotional gravitas to scenes in everything from Gossip Girl to Game of Thrones.
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Nicole Heesters, who plays Lou Salomé in old age as she compiles her autobiography, imbues the character with witty gravitas.
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It's a neat trope subversion, played with all the gravitas expected of the genre, making this crime thriller a standout.
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In a way, some of the gravitas and just the buoyancy of what the characters were feeling was written down.
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The humor in this film felt completely out of place, and it worked against the gravitas of the mystical elements.
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"Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job," Mankiw wrote.
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This gives him great expertise and experience in the region as well as the gravitas to speak for President Trump.
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All of that authority, know-how, gravitas, good posture and moral rectitude — it seemed so important, so adult, so American.
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Stanfield imbues Nate with his signature strange gravitas, while Wise and Snow play adequately off each other with limited material.
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Kim Jong Un's resemblance of his grandfather allows him to "project power and gravitas," Madsen told The Guardian in 2014.
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With that combination of glamour and gravitas he's also slowly turning into another overly emotional genre-defining artist: Taylor Swift.
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The documentary elements provide context for the fictional ones, while the fictional elements lend emotional gravitas to the nonfictional ones.
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CJF, as the government fund is known, is committing $2500 million, but beyond a large check it adds gravitas, too.
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Gunna can bring the glitz, and Baby the gravitas, but that isn't exactly how it plays out on Drip Harder.
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The video hopes to lend some gravitas to our fascination with nuclear weapons, particularly as they're portrayed in video games.
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"In order to build his credibility, and gravitas, O'Neill has to be let out on his own," said Mr. O'Donnell.
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Prince Ahmed is a figure of special gravitas in the family because he is King Salman's only surviving full brother.
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The students believed that their complaints weren't being treated with sufficient gravitas, and they brought their complaints to the public.
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There's no moment where it turns serious, there's no moment where real piano comes in to give it some gravitas.
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But on still another level, it's a quick and easy way to buy a little gravitas you maybe haven't earned.
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You have been most victimized in the United States and therefore your opinion must be taken with the most gravitas.
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The Irish priest at the Catholic mission in Kutama thought he had "unusual gravitas" and would "be an important somebody".
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It is a most serious work, well written and evocative of an era when the American foreign establishment exuded gravitas.
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Men are seen as having leadership qualities like gravitas, while women are seen as having supporting-role qualities like dependability.
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One view of McNamee is that he has the gravitas of a man willing to admit that he was wrong.
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Over the following decade, Lisa moved up steadily within that same consulting firm, the "gravitas" comment quietly urging her forward.
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What he was being paid to do was to impute reputation and gravitas to an American company doing business globally.
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Hermès Centerpiece in Lacquer | $1,100 Give your dinner party some gravitas by placing this stunning centerpiece among the sides and sauces.
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A Romney appointment would give Trump instant gravitas abroad and a marquee name in one of the highest-profile administration postings.
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Oregon probably won't turn into Waco, and it almost certainly won't achieve the ideological gravitas of either Waco or Ruby Ridge.
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Quartz reports that the new DVD Netflix app, announced Sunday, promises to bring back the gravitas DVD users feel they lost.
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There isn't the same level of faux gravitas in Rocketman, which, like its flamboyant protagonist, mostly just wants to have fun.
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Apple and the iPhone are thriving in China as exceptions to the norm, but Facebook doesn't have that same brand gravitas.
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As the victims of Tartuffe's faux-religious snake-oil scam learn, however, an appearance of gravitas and sagacity can be misleading.
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I would feel better knowing that there was somebody there with the depth and gravitas on the issues that Newt possesses.
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The death of King Harrow—who is introduced as an idealist ruler and father—is treated with genuine respect and gravitas.
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While Smith says the superimposition was a glitch, it stands in the image with gravitas, the opposite of a random shimmer.
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Americans voters were desperate for strength and gravitas, and those images played to the critics who said that Ford had neither.
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In Wednesday night's debate special, Bee and her Full Frontal team pulled out a dizzying balance of gravitas and cutting humor.
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But what she's better known for across the English-speaking world is the tone she employs for matters of serious gravitas.
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If any woman has the gravitas to call out a movement that has quickly become fashionable and powerful, it is Klein.
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He's the only figure with the gravitas to pacify the warring factions of the party ahead of November's midterms, said Rep.
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By contrast, Telemachus in the Odyssey speaks with muthos, a kind of gravitas that makes his voice suitable for public speech.
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Laufer and Kaufman were looking for someone who could add gravitas to their scrappy outfit and make their dream a reality.
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In the past, such assistant administrators had both the scientific knowledge and the gravitas to keep reputable science from being ignored.
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She was true to the instrument, not conveying a lot of weight or body, but exuding gravitas and a deceptive power.
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To lend the film gravitas, Mr. Carpenter cast the esteemed British actor Donald Pleasence ("The Great Escape") as Michael's psychiatrist, Loomis.
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It doesn't really have the gravitas of fighting white supremacy, I agree, but it didn't really matter [what the motivation was].
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Nice digs seem only fitting for the guardians of the nation's currency, giving them a reassuring air of gravitas and permanence.
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What the event lacked in officially sanctioned gravitas, though, it seemed determined to make up for with theater and grandiose proclamations.
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But what I found with Doug's performance is that it lended a huge amount of gravitas to very few words spoken.
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He attempts to assure Americans he has the gravitas and skill to lead while also taking a swipe at President Trump.
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But the storm and the way it scattered the author's large family across America give this book its grease and gravitas.
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But after his passing in November, the filmmakers felt compelled to update the sequence to acknowledge the "gravitas" of the moment.
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If they were, they'd always hew closer to the classic ones (hard to beat "'til death do us part" for gravitas).
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As Roch, Philippe Torreton is all gentle gravitas, so earnest that he draws tears without so much as raising his voice.
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"The addition of Tony Fabrizio demonstrates a level of gravitas and political sophistication that should make Democrats lose sleep," Hughes said.
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She may have been joking, but Harington took some time to correct her, delivering the same line with a little more gravitas.
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The chairs offer little in the way of comfort, but rather infer, by their bulk and gravitas, memorials or rough unworked headstones.
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Crane Cookware C2851 Casserole 22cm | $2851 Give your dinner party some gravitas by placing this stunning centerpiece among the sides and sauces.
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The deep voice appears to have been an affectation, an attempt to summon up more of a sense of gravitas or authority.
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Parodied by some as the "mini-Merkel," Kramp-Karrenbauer struggled from the outset to prove she possessed the gravitas for the role.
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She would add the gravitas, delegates and, eventually, millions of votes needed to get them over the finish line on Nov. 2628.
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One of the most damaging impacts of Gravitas Works' identity theft was the isolation Hunter experienced from her own left-leaning community.
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Meanwhile, no one brings steel-eyed gravitas quite like Denzel, who's fairly reined in here as the Seven's stoic yet fearless leader.
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McShane should bring the necessary gravitas to Wednesday, who is really just a manifestation of the All-Father Odin, of Norse myth.
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The funny part is, it works: every one word with gravitas increases the flow into an average fund by $227,120 a year.
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Who has the gravitas and the guts to travel to Trump Tower and tell the man the long, strange trip is over?
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"Jobs with real gravitas go to people that are physically right for them and that's the end of the story," she says.
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"The two [potential] nominees Cain and Moore seem to be valued more for their political contributions than their economic gravitas," Gapen said.
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"He gave Batman a gravitas that, in 1991, he'd never had before," said Alan Burnett, a writer and producer on the series.
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Their colleague's disgrace undid a painstaking, years long strategy of replacing his funnyman's past with the gravitas of a serious political player.
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This is the shit that gives sports weight and gravitas, the year-after-year confrontations and history that back up every series.
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Still, the dog-eat-dog nature of primary races means that few candidates come across with the gravitas of a potential president.
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An actor with more gravitas might have made even more of the role, but the production was shrewdly tailored to its venue.
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Certainly not — a lot of things determine whether someone will succeed in that job, and intellectual gravitas is neither necessary nor sufficient.
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But whatever gravitas it provided Lenferink as he welcomed a group of researchers to his city, he was quick to undercut it.
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As this novel nears its end, it builds toward a kind of gravitas as Nero's past starts to catch up with him.
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This week, we were equally amazed by the gravitas and clarity with which they have continued to think and write about them.
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The building type, best known in recent years for starring in reality TV shows like "Tiny House, Big Living," is gaining gravitas.
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His most recent high-profile job, foreign secretary, found him ill at ease in a role that required more gravitas than grandiloquence.
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As his vision for infusing buildings with ancient gravitas cohered, Kahn sought collaborators who could help make his groundbreaking citadels a reality.
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Gravitas, which began publishing in 2014 and covers professional women in Sarasota and the Tampa Bay Area in Florida, eschews models altogether.
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Penn brings a weary gravitas to the central role as part of a well-cast ensemble, wrestling with challenges and personal demons.
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But he's got gravitas, because he's played by Robert Freakin' Redford, and he raises some genuinely complicated questions about security versus freedom.
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No longer simply a modish place to find high design by local makers, the Future Perfect now has a hushed, theatrical gravitas.
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His resoluteness and gravitas, especially after undergoing the tragedy of a family death, could have proved essential to Kirkman's indecisive White House.
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Alphabet can no longer maintain its freewheeling culture at its size, and Pichai has the gravitas within the organization to change that.
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Sadly, the miscast young actresses are unable to impart any gravitas to the material, making for an unfortunate coda to the evening.
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Sadly, the miscast young actresses are unable to impart any gravitas to the material, making for an unfortunate coda to the evening.
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He gives chiaroscuro's gravitas to drawings of GULF, Standing Rock, and Occupy Museums protests, such as at Berlin's Pergamon Museum, among others.
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AL: She also really wanted to project the gravitas of the situation, so she did wear a lot of black, which Donatella did.
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" Still, the diplomat conceded that "political gravitas and substantive knowledge are good substitutes for life in diplomacy," adding, "provided that they are there.
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By the time the phrase "new-year resolutions" first appeared, in a Boston newspaper in 1813, the pledges were losing their religious gravitas.
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He sauntered into the Élysée while still in his late thirties, his mix of intellectual gravitas and childlike arrogance already proving controversial then.
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For his part, Trump needed to show enough gravitas to convince skeptics that he is ready to be commander in chief, they said.
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In the past, Hammer's performances had always been buoyed by the movie-star gravitas of his costars, whether DiCaprio, Depp, or Julia Roberts.
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In 2013, Project Gravitas launched, combining technology, apparel innovation, and smart design to create clothing that flatters a wide range of body types.
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Say what you will about the prequel trilogy, they at least stay invested in their characters, and they have gravitas — sometimes in excess.
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One measure of how much gravitas the president expects out of this role is how much authority it has over budgeting and spending.
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Couric, who was perky, fearless and compassionate, was branded "America's Sweetheart," and Lauer exhibited a winning mix of friendliness and a certain gravitas.
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Mr. Allen and his superb rhythm team, the bassist Gregg August and the drummer Rudy Royston, play it with a troubled, rolling gravitas.
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The tone varies wildly where the first half seems amateurish, much like the protagonists, and the second-half brings gravitas to the proceedings.
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This is the team he now serves as a kind of spiritual adviser, bringing an aura of gravitas and success to the organization.
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Lester brought with him the gravitas of a 26-27 World Series pitching record and a 210 earned run average in those games.
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Those politicians also have proven fundraising abilities, policy chops and a sense of gravitas that someone like Avenatti, to this point, cannot match.
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So now comes her first solo work since her great run, with Eric's production lending an unmannerly distorto gravitas that suits its audacity.
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Prince Ahmed is widely seen as a figure of special gravitas in the family because he is the king's only surviving full brother.
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With Noguchi-like edges, Boteroesque blobs and Tim Burton-inspired tendrils, the material gives his work a new gravitas, enshrining his joyful lunacy.
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And, of course, there are the "weapons of mass destruction" lies, presented with great gravitas by, among others, Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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If you're wondering why the woman playing Theresa carries herself with such gravitas, it's because she's the tremendous Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen.
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"Michael is a great actor who has gravitas and a believable New York pedigree," said Ben Stiller, who directed "Dannemora," in an email.
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It could be that something was lost in translating to English the Italian legends accompanying cards for Precision, Kindness, Gravitas and other traits.
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You have the gravitas and experience to remind the voters that some things are worth fighting for, especially our freedom and our honor.
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Hockney never accepted the culture's burden of gravitas, and has stayed funny and sweet despite being a very famous British male figurative painter.
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"I think we are past the point of questioning whether women have the 'gravitas' or the 'authority' to moderate these debates," she said.
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An "Additional Information" section at the back of the novel offers basic facts about the real story, and adds gravitas to the book.
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Unlike his predecessors though, he possesses the added gravitas of being an ex-POTUS, making "former President Bill Clinton" the most logical choice.
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And actually, that might give the meme a lot more gravitas than its creator surely ever intended — which would make it a ... Milkshake Duck?
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But perhaps the most entertaining part of the show was when Olivia Munn brought out two gold medal Olympians to counteract Phelps' athletic gravitas.
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And even in her more dramatic roles, she brings the gravitas — and comic timing — of a well-spoken, thoughtful, and hilarious chameleon of sorts.
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The moments are the emotional crux of the show and give gravitas and reliability to a program that is literally about cleaning your space.
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And the lead actors' impressive performances, most notably from Sam (David Morrissey), Gemma (Keeley Hawes) and Sophie (Abigail Hardingham), give such even more gravitas.
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However, his tenure as Speaker of the House should permanently tarnish his image and completely shatter the myth of his intellectual and moral gravitas.
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On average, adding a single word with gravitas to a fund's name increases flows to that fund by $227,120 a year, the researchers found.
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Hedge funds with positively associated name gravitas have annualized alphas up to 0.97 percent lower than those with negatively associated names, the paper notes.
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We wanted a father type with gravitas because it allows you to say whatever you want, to get dramatic and still make it funny.
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We have collectively either embraced or fallen prey to a culture that has given up gravitas and an expectation of, if not "truthfulness," propriety.
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Ever wonder how expression that's feminine, working-class, queer, or poc isn't deemed as having "gravitas," but talking like an Aaron Sorkin character does?
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The others all end with the demise of their main characters — unexplored deaths that reach for gravitas, but only grab it by the toe.
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As a straight man, Esiason made sense; he had a name, some gravitas, and a history with the station as a regular Imus guest.
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Día de los Muertos is a joyous party honoring the deceased with revelry and gravitas, but what happens when we come to crash it?
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His professionalism helped lend a certain gravitas to an enterprise that was hardly known for it, but he also conveyed mild sarcasm at times.
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Chris wrote that he came across as well-versed on the issues, authoritative and possessing the necessary gravitas to serve as commander-in-chief.
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As it turned out, if anything was an aberration, it was the gravitas and aura of command that he displayed in those trying times.
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"If we can make it easier for you to remember that headline, to understand the gravitas around a story... we're not apologizing for that."
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You can also cultivate gravitas, Welch says, through the behaviors you avoid, like gossiping, being unprepared for meetings, interrupting others or improvising important presentations.
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It will take someone with the reason, experience and gravitas of General Mattis, plus his extra star, to counterbalance General Flynn's flights of fancy.
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At the start of the twentieth century, Pablo Casals brought Bach's suites to a wide public, and an even deeper well of gravitas opened.
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And the whole experience has a very cinematic feel, thanks to the Resident Evil-style fixed camera angles, which lend everything a sense of gravitas.
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He'll have to soften his approach, to show some respect and gravitas, to display some empathy, to demonstrate that he has a grasp of policy.
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In French campaigns, gravitas-enhancing trips beyond the Hexagone (as mainland France is known) are especially popular with candidates who have little experience of governing.
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And we can't forget that his play-by-play work was top-notch as well; the man had as much versatility as he did gravitas.
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And don't try to do "cool" things you think young people do; you're a grown woman and we like the gravitas and dignity that brings.
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Because he has sought to appeal to voters mainly as an unconventional choice, Trump has depended far more on personality than gravitas to sell himself.
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The coolest thing about Moira's Banshee skin is that you need to be intimately familiar with Irish folktales for it to bear its maximum gravitas.
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But I'm sure you're much more, and you don't want to say excited because you have to have gravitas, but it's an exciting thing, right?
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Two works by Rollins & K.O.S. channel the gravitas of their authors: "Suffering and Faith" (2008) after Martin Luther King and "Darkwater" (2013) after W.E.B. DuBois.
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But the most important thing you need to know is this: there is nowt [nothing] as full of craggy Northern gravitas as a Yorkshire accent.
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"Jobs with real gravitas go to people that are physically right for them and that's the end of the story," she said, per the magazine.
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It would be hard to imagine a better actor for this role than Mr Langella, a man who could read a phone book with gravitas.
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" By contrast, she said, Ms. Gangitano, "holds gravitas with that thoughtful presence of hers, and she is so sophisticated, never shrill, very calm and serene.
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I thought that I would be able to, with gravitas, confront all of the uncomfortable dynamics in my life, but that just did not happen.
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For George W. Bush, who lacked gravitas and a deep résumé when he sought the presidency, it was a way to recast inexperience as humility.
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Perception is a significant part of effectiveness in office, and being formally confirmed by the Senate for a permanent appointment gathers legitimacy, authority, and gravitas.
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So, as long as Kudlow remains honest with himself and his listeners when speaking publicly, he will continue to have considerable gravitas on the issues.
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It was surprising both for its timing and for its defiance of the gravitas that Christie appeared to be cultivating as a serious presidential candidate.
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Mr. Trump has retweeted one of his supporters, who called Ms. Kelly a "bimbo," and has said she lacks the gravitas to question the candidates.
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Spheeris was in her early 40s when she made Decline II, which probably gave her gravitas and a semblance of authority that served her well.
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Scenes where the iconic power of its Disney characters are marshalled to lend gravitas and familiarity to the series' biggest battles and oddest plot twists.
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Mr. Wiley's flamboyant portraits of men, in particular, give them a worldly power and often a gravitas that they don't necessarily possess in real life.
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Along the way they incur the wrath of a sheriff with the unimprovable name of Buford T. Justice and the impeccable gravitas of Jackie Gleason.
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Its contemporary sales now include earlier 21955th-century works, giving its auctions some historical gravitas — and some heftier price tags, which bolstered the week's numbers.
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But the secretary's gravitas was a significant part of the two-year-long effort by the Bush administration to get Americans on the war wagon.
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But the play does have a delicious villain in its Morris, played by David Wohl as a tyrannical perfectionist who thrills at his own gravitas.
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And that's why I think the whole ceremony process was so important, because it really brings that gravitas and permanence to what we were doing.
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It is also something of an anomaly in the presidential portrait continuum, where the exhibition of restrained gravitas often seems to be the overriding imperative.
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Books can be aesthetic signifiers, colorful set pieces of sorts, their spines telegraphing a certain gravitas — or a certain playfulness, depending on how they're arranged.
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This hasn't stopped artists from figuratively pickpocketing it, hoping to nick a bit of his gravitas and spirit, and to import tragic frissons by association.
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In January, this organist and jazz-funk pioneer released "All in My Mind," a swooping, mystical document replete with earthy gravitas and explosive, cosmic inquiry.
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These books have flat-footed gravitas, a vestigial sort of swat that calls to mind Johnny Cash's stark final records with the producer Rick Rubin.
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Elijah Cummings' death, Capitol Hill loses a widely respected lawmaker who brought gravitas to his role as a key player in challenging President Donald Trump.
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Bell is embodied, in a commanding and versatile performance, by Nicole Kidman, who supplies a gravitas and emotional complexity worthy of the woman she plays.
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The commissioned artwork gave it a distinctly New York vibe, but it didn't hold quite the gravitas I was expecting with the designation of penthouse.
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That pipeline ultimately awarded Rolls-Royce a contract in November 2009 for $145 million, and the company then made payments to Gravitas, the department said.
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" Ms. Jones wondered if the glamorous aspects of Ms. Union's life might lead sellers to underestimate the gravitas of "We're Going to Need More Wine.
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The gravitas of the Museum at the Government College of Fine Arts, founded in 1850, provided a solemn backdrop for meditations on gender and identity.
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I think I have a certain sort of gravitas about me that lends itself to playing women who are often the smartest people in the room.
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La La Land lines will be celebrated and quoted for decades to come, but Academy voters like a big ladle of gravitas on their original scripts.
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More regal than ever at 81, she can speak Shakespearean verse with mellifluous intelligence; a former Merce Cunningham dancer, she can invest simple pantomime with gravitas.
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Imani Gandy, senior legal analyst at Rewire, co-host of This Week in Blackness Prime: Honestly, I wish I felt the gravitas that other women feel.
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The strategist said her experience, gravitas and a likely continuation of Draghi's dovish stance should stand her in good stead among lawmakers and the investment community.
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Andy Serkis reliably chews scenery as Klaue, while both Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett add considerable gravitas as a Wakandan spiritual guru and T'Challa's mother, respectively.
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Mr d'Onofrio delivers his lines like a Victorian actor-manager tackling "King Lear", bringing a gravitas to the role that ought not to work but does.
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Her tweet quickly drew critics on Twitter, who argued she should have used the word "anti-Semitism" to address the issue with the gravitas it deserves.
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The study suggests that the so-called sophisticated investors who put money into gravitas hedge funds do learn, eventually reversing their flows of cash into them.
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"We were surprised to see that funds with gravitas were not that hot in terms of performance," said Cristian-Ioan Tiu, one of the co-authors.
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An expert at condensing the story without losing its gravitas, Hinds is also talented at distilling sophisticated literary and historical traditions into clear and readable prose.
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There is a sense of entitlement to people's trauma and a kind of gleeful armchair detective work that doesn't come with the gravitas of the situation.
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Although he fought mightily to retain his seat, the speed and gravitas with which he conceded the race indicated a lack of surprise at the outcome.
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"I think she has great gravitas in certain circles but I think they need to find ways to expose her a little bit more," she added.
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In Cape Town, South Africa, a fighting spirit and a positive outlook gave one visual artist the gravitas to represent his country through a different lens.
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Bzdelik is not even six feet tall, with unassuming gravitas and a sincere dedication to making sure everything that comes out of his mouth is understood.
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But sheep lack the gravitas of cattle, and "today, the cows carry out a similar function in a rather more decorous manner," the same history concludes.
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Let Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who has just the right mix of bedside manner reassurance and give-it-to-me-straight gravitas, do the daily briefings.
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It's a shame, because Jean-Pierre Baro has real gravitas in the part, while Criss Niangouna and Malik Faraoun bring verve to their roles as miners.
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The groups ready to pounce include the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), a moniker apparently calculated to add gravitas to an ostensibly criminal organization.
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Then came the slaughter in the Christchurch mosques and overnight the gravitas in her angular face beneath a hijab became an iconic image of global humanity.
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Yet Hunters presents it straightforwardly, as the start of the strange dance between gravitas and absurdity that the show performs for the rest of the season.
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Somewhere around the third season, which is when Trek shows generally find their footing (if they ever do), he turned avuncular gravitas into a philosophical conscience.
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Germany's gravitas, commercial interests and geography position it -- not the US, the UK or the Central Europeans -- to set the course of future relations with Russia.
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An adult take on war trauma and a classic series, Gears 5 brings a gravitas and refreshing perspective to the long-running third-person-shooter series.
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In the photos she sent, her son slides her judge's robe over the shoulders of her Gravitas dress in the midst of her swearing-in ceremony.
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Guardians of the Galaxy helped the MCU leave Earth, Doctor Strange ushered in psychedelic time manipulation, and Black Panther brought in unexpected gravitas and cultural savvy.
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Rather, the news bloopers that feed the soul leave highly polished newscasters trained to embody unwavering gravitas completely shook and metaphorically naked before all of America.
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After all, plenty of male writers have moved seamlessly between drooling Esquire cover stories about the starlet of the moment and gravitas-stuffed considerations of war.
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In 2007, he released "Anthem," a post-Hurricane Katrina statement with a scathing new sound — driven equally by rock thrash, hip-hop gravitas and jazz sincerity.
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In Winters mind, life and all of its conventions are futile, so why not pursue everything with the same gravitas you would a family or job.
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He was simply springing a trap that's been set for any woman who dares to lead: She has to have gravitas, but she can't be a bitch.
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She did know all of the story going in, but now there would be certain scenes that now have this extra gravitas to them in her mind.
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McCarthy's decision to become CFO gave gravitas to Spotify, which was led by a young founder, Daniel Ek, when it was beginning to think about an IPO.
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Over a number of years, Irwin developed and refined his design for the site, respecting the gravitas of the historical ruins and its location within the community.
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But for Mr. Trump, the moment presents another in a series of opportunities for the businessman-turned-reality-television-star-turned-candidate to try to demonstrate gravitas.
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Democrats may have started to move the needle on public opinion, with the gravitas of Ambassador William Taylor and then the pathos of career diplomat Marie Yovanovitch.
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Mr. Huston's performance, however competent, is no match compared with Heston's heaving, oratorical gravitas, which gave even casual remarks the ring of Scripture declaimed from a mountaintop.
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It's been 13 years since God of War arrived on PlayStation 2, a game whose sense of grandiosity, penchant for violence, and overwrought gravitas was utterly captivating.
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There was Gillespie's legacy for you: an entertainer who could entwine gravitas and levity, an ambassador for the younger generation's attitudes, frustrations and will toward self-representation.
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The Irish priest at St Francis Xavier, the Catholic mission in Kutama, told young Robert's mother that he had "unusual gravitas" and would "be an important somebody".
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The entry here is MIRACLE ON ICE — the unlikely 1980 Olympic hockey victory that was all rife with Cold War gravitas and rah rah United States patriotism.
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And while it was practically unheard-of for someone with Walters's journalistic gravitas to lower herself to daytime TV, Walters didn't want the result to be pedantic.
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After more than 40 years with the Marines, Mr. Kelly possesses the gravitas and credibility on matters of military and public service that his boss does not.
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Democrats, led by Mr. Nadler, intend to try to rein in their more fiery progressives and infuse the proceedings with gravitas, mindful of their role in history.
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In particular, the conclusion feels clunky, predictable, and shoehorned in as a way to make you feel something like gravitas, without asking you to think too much.
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Over simple backing tracks, Wayne — an Oscar-winning actor and already a fixture in the American mythos — lends his raspy gravitas to 10 poems by John Mitchum.
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Your sheer existence will suddenly develop gravitas, and your every movement will be grounded by the dignity and power of Morgan Freeman, voice of God and penguins.
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Is it because he didn't have the sort of gravitas and reciprocated love from a club willing to shepherd him into palliative care that Stevie and Frank enjoyed?
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Lorde's version (which starts at 10:47 in the above video) hews closer to the song's pop side, but her wise-beyond-her-years gravitas sells it nonetheless.
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Starship captain, Shakespearean thespian, and real-life knight Sir Patrick Stewart lends his gravitas to The Emoji Movie—out today—as the voice of Poop, a debonair dump.
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"You want it to be something memorable [that] has real clarity to it, not something with gravitas like a law firm," he said, referencing the company's current name.
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Go deeper: In a new story, Andrew talked with three scientists who have gravitas in terms of their research work, but are also skilled at humanizing the problem.
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And the Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) has an attractive gravitas – you almost believe he really has prowled up and down the corridors of power, both governmental and superheroic.
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It's taken a ridiculous (and fictional) crime — someone spray painting penises on cars — and applied the same thorough reporting, language, and gravitas as a traditional true crime show.
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It's tempting to argue that Phillips has framed this ridiculous story with all this gravitas because he wants to push it further into the realm of absurd satire.
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Critics would surely complain that the caprine members of the cast of "Goats" were a mere contrivance, distracting from events and robbing a tragic drama of its gravitas.
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But when the game uses the language of slavery and the Holocaust as a cheap attempt to infuse Detroit's narrative with unearned gravitas, it's hard not to cringe.
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The speedy entrance wards off stage-fright, and he instantly owns the room with the gravitas, humor, and ease of a seasoned and extremely beloved late-night host.
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Funds named with words which suggest gravitas, that solemnity and dignity the Romans thought essential to leadership, attract more investor flows and perform worse, according to the study.
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"Jobs with real gravitas go to people that are physically right for them and that's the end of the story," she told British GQ for their May issue.
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When you arrive at your destination, the long hood, Parthenon grille and glowing "Spirit of Ecstasy" flying lady hood ornament will signal to onlookers your importance and gravitas.
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But the 3D, 360-degree environment lends a gravitas to the piece, letting the environment surround you; even mundane things like grass and water can become temporarily fascinating.
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Today, the country packs more gravitas -- economically and politically -- than at any time in the postwar era, as well as being a respected middle-heavyweight in world politics.
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Legacy would love to do the same thing, but it doesn't seem to realize that this sort of gravitas has to be earned and can't be insisted upon.
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The firm sought to add some gravitas to its ranks with the hiring of Ms. Bone, who previously held top network security jobs at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
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These writers have been greeted with a great deal of attention, yet there remains the anxious sense that to write about such topics is to risk forfeiting gravitas.
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Frank Solich won 22015 games in his first four seasons at Nebraska, more than enough to conceal how little of Tom Osborne's gravitas or savvy he truly had.
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Their relationship adds gravitas and stakes to "Castle Rock," making it all the more nerve-racking to see Ruth standing atop a bridge, about to end it all.
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It's golly-gee stuff, but it's also human and Mr. Miller keeps you hooked, as does Mr. Momoa ("Game of Thrones"), who supplely shifts between gravitas and comedy.
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The 80-year-old actor, clad in white linen, undoubtedly possessed gravitas, but it was consistently undercut by this production's ability to expose the play's unadorned, naked brutality.
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For now, most of the material used in fecal transplants comes from OpenBiome, the public stool bank in Cambridge that embraces its mission with both humor and gravitas.
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But it could also give him gravitas in the eyes of many voters, and an ability to position himself as a steady hand at a moment of turbulence.
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"Who from the A team with any gravitas is going to take that job?" remarked one Republican senator, pointing to the exodus of senior officials from the administration.
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The words "Volume One" imply that further "volumes" will follow, and chapter-heading intertitles in the film accord the pulpy subject matter greater literary gravitas than it deserves.
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Not only do Mr. Moore and Mr. Cain also lack this experience, but they don't possess the intellectual gravitas that Mr. Diamond would have brought to the job.
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Wiley's portrait of the 20183th president depicts him seated against a lush backdrop of foliage, embodying the nobility and gravitas for which the New York-based painter is known.
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The second title to be directed by Fumito Ueda at Sony's Team Ico division, following 2001's Ico, it was a game of both great silences and stunning gravitas.
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Compared to consumer laptops like the HP Spectre x211 and the Razer Blade 24, dialogue in The Punisher produced by the speakers came without any gravitas from the lows.
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The Oscar-winner brings a tremendous amount of gravitas to any role she takes on, but here she adds a delicious sense of scene-chewing malevolence to the mix.
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Meanwhile, the rapidly changing tones and the shifting priorities of the characters fosters a Pythonesque irreverence towards to the surreal situations, providing comic relief and undercutting the film's gravitas.
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But it was also a parody of modern serialized soap forms – and/or a sincere one, though stripped of "prestige" gravitas – just the way the original Twin Peaks was.
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But as you said, porgs — like Ewoks and Jar-Jar before them — often feel like they're aiming for younger audiences, which can undercut the intended gravitas of other moments.
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Sending a false signal of competence or gravitas is a good Darwinian tactic in an industry in which there is a huge gap in knowledge between practitioners and clients.
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Crey told Reuters his community is not opposed to development, but they want their rights and needs to be treated with the same gravitas as those of other Canadians.
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He would bring the respect and gravitas of having been a governor and run for the White House; he's now seen as a statesman figure of the GOP establishment.
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"The studios came to Cannes for cultural gravitas and indie credentials that would give their movies added weight, spending a great deal of money doing so," Mr. Finch said.
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The decision to sit Trump behind his Oval Office desk might have been prompted by the need to lend a sense of gravitas to the issue of illegal immigration.
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These issues are for the most part voiced by small farmers, counterculture types and others who are earnest but don't bring much gravitas or scientific evidence to the case.
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Yet by aping Penn's argument in his tweet, the president appeared to be trying to bring a new level of legal gravitas to his tirades against the Mueller investigation.
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It would be a mistake for defense lawyers to ignore the gravitas of documents that speak for themselves --and instead follow a singular strategy of attacking Gates's seedy character.
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That being said, she's still Gaga, so we a symbolic, elaborate performance outfit will blend the drama she's known for with the gravitas fitting of such a powerful song.
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It's been blurbed as "the Boogie Nights of gay porn," but it's more like the Party Monster of the casting couch, a store-bought Halloween costume of cinematic gravitas.
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Only Carpenter is the genuine article; fittingly enough, he reigns as arguably the least-recognized great hitter in the game, which means the gravitas is nowhere to be found.
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A return by Rick to business as usual next week would be a disservice to his son's memory, undermining the gravitas of Carl's death and the wrenching burial scene.
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The compendium is printed in an oversized format, which not only gives gravitas to Valley's grotesque and goofy imagery, but allows enough room to read his text-heavy sequences.
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Both breeds have historically found reason to tack on "senior" when possible: It can help a reporter convey gravitas — who would trust an administration official of merely medium import?
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While he possessed the same gravitas and personality as Joker, he was also somehow darker and more grounded than the previous animated TV and film iterations of the character.
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The moment he saw those globes, Mr. Carter said, he knew he had a stand-in structure that possessed the gravitas — and the glow — of the real Times building.
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He also encouraged the investment in Breitbart News, which was made through Gravitas Maximus, L.L.C., a front group that once had the same Long Island address as Renaissance Technologies.
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I'd like to have someone with gravitas, but he got there through the Electoral College, which is part of our system, and I hope he does some good things.
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He has been purposely low-key in the first two debates, likely aiming to project gravitas amid questions of whether 37 is too young for someone to be president.
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In Haynes's hands, Dark Waters has gravitas and the ability to infuriate its audience with the near-impossibility of confronting an industry giant on behalf of the ordinary man.
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Highly sensitive to accusations that Mr. Trudeau lacks the gravitas of a world leader, the governing Liberal Party has long sought to balance his brand as celebrity and statesman.
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Finney's juiciest role of the 1990s came to him from the Coen Brothers, who placed the actor (and his considerable gravitas) at the center of this throwback gangster movie.
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Rick leads the only other portion of the episode that successfully hits the gravitas it aims for, two scenes that could have been airlifted from the series's earlier seasons.
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He was not a shy young man, but Olson, at that point firmly established as one of the game's top coaches, had the sort of gravitas that intimidated him.
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A perfect place, where Halloween is taken one step darker and metal's modern gravitas is laughed at and traded for its original obsessions with monsters, witchcraft, and the party.
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Rest assured, there are a handful of bright spots in the AKC's art collection, but the current curatorial program is overwrought in its emphasis on dog gravitas and regality.
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There's tragedy, though, and it's of the same sort that games like Ni no Kuni II or Assassin's Creed Origins resort to when they need to summon up some gravitas.
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Even though President Obama brought a great deal of respect and gravitas back to the Oval Office, we still are a nation that lives in the shadow of Richard Nixon.
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People love to quote the founding fathers to give their arguments some gravitas, but idiots on the internet help spread fake quotes from those founding fathers far and wide online.
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" He added the detail about his Chinese heritage, however, because he felt that it added extra gravitas to the letter, and hoped that "they might think that I was wise.
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Capturing the minimum amount of detail needed for her portraits, she gives consumer culture unexpected gravitas, as her paintings walk the line between Insta culture, fashion illustration, and painterly portraiture.
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Some in Brussels wonder whether the chancellor would privately like to lever a German with more gravitas than Mr Weber, perhaps Peter Altmaier, her loyal economics minister, into the job.
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It's going for something much lighter than what The Good Wife generally traded in, but laces almost every scene with self-consciously significant moments that badly want to convey gravitas.
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People love to quote the founding fathers to give their arguments some gravitas, but idiots on the internet help spread fake quotes from those founding fathers far and wide online.
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"Having a senator of her gravitas to be able to be that influential — even if it's just her bully pulpit — to bring the hammer down on Columbia Gas," Rivera said.
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Sure, Irvin Kershner gave The Empire Strikes Back a sense of gravitas that didn't seem to interest George Lucas, and The Force Awakens was full of J.J. Abrams' stylistic flair.
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There's scant gravitas to the proceedings; where the Cell was once an ending scene for the hottest feuds, now the promotion will throw most anyone in, regardless of mutual animus.
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In that deal, Wenn Digital bought the rights to the Kodak name for an estimated $1.5 million, a move that they hoped would immediately lend gravitas to the crypto offering.
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It's a reassurance that presidents have the required gravitas to lead effectively, that "they can handle the job, they can take control in difficult situations," presidential historian Julian Zelizer said.
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The various players will wheel and deal behind each other's backs, but in public, they always put on their somber faces and address the American public with gravitas and poise.
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Some veteran Democrats think voters will be clamoring for a candidate who provides a sharp contrast in gravitas with Trump, and there are questions about whether O'Rourke fits that bill.
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Actually, there is — there was one formative moment for me as a child that made me think about the gravitas of images connected to how we see race in America.
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And should such a lane open up, there is only one person who has the requisite gravitas, political chops and ability to self-fund a presidential campaign -- and that's Bloomberg.
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Where are the leaders of such social consequence that they answer the questions of our time with the fearlessness and gravitas that a generation gone past did in its youth?
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But even the silliest of those movies and TV shows tends to take superheroes extremely seriously, with a level of gravitas that can work but make viewers roll their eyes.
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If satire can use excess and extremity to expose hypocrisy or greed, melodrama can use it to lend gravitas to emotions or values dismissed or diminished by the larger culture.
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What conservative has the gravitas and authority to speak for Republicans who have been gritting their teeth every time that Trump waxes effusively about Vladimir Putin or Mohammed bin Salman?
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House of Cards was, at one point, an enjoyable political thriller wrapped in the alluring aesthetics of David Fincher, giving the show a sense of gravitas it never really earned.
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Lacking a ballast of gravitas or grit, the book lists into the realm of magical thinking: nothing Gilbert touches seems to turn out wrong; not a single wish goes unfulfilled.
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"Her own life experience allows the necessary gravitas needed for a canon of work that runs incredibly deep and wide," observed the pianist Lee Musiker, her music director since 2007.
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In a statement, Senator John J. Flanagan of Long Island, the Republican leader, made no mention of politics surrounding Mr. Larkin's retirement, rather concentrating on his long service and gravitas.
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Banished from heaven, Lucifer (David Andrew Macdonald, with the gravitas of George C. Scott) and Beelzebub (Lou Liberatore, like a villainous Disney sidekick) scheme over how to ruin God's plans.
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Another comes from a woman who bought a Gravitas dress for her mother, who worked as a caretaker for her terminally ill husband for five years before he passed away.
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In a time in which flow patterns have melted into slush, it's refreshing to be reminded of the power that comes from certain pacing, smooth gravitas and square-cornered rhymes.
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This was the series's most cleanly successful event, though it didn't have the heavy historical gravitas of the Prime Time reunion, or the charmed revelation of the chamber music show.
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This does the same thing, just through a sort of crowdsourcing, as well as some images that may have a bit less, uh, gravitas than anything Reggio would have selected.
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The first is that there are a lot of former Sanders supporters out there who have started to gravitate to Warren, loving her mix of class rage and policy gravitas.
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The department said Tuesday it had charged Petros Contoguris, 70, who served as the founder and chief executive of a Turkish oil and gas company advisory firm called Gravitas & CIE.
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Talking to fans, publishing types, and Chinese journalists at a cocktail party before the presentation, he spoke with authority and gravitas, and was more obviously formidable than I'd previously seen.
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The slow moving drone cameras, despite their sophistication, ultimately come off as stuffy, clichéd, and plodding, an attempt at projecting gravitas that comes to feel hollow and formulaic with repetition.
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Because his latest record grapples with religion, using signifiers of the Christianity he abandoned on songs like the title track and "Hail Mary," it a similar gravitas as Buckley's Grace.
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The departure of Fischer, 73, represents a big loss of institutional knowledge and gravitas for the Fed at a time when many American institutions are sorely lacking in technocratic expertise.
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Although Quavo and Young Thug, among others, contribute enlivening guest verses, as usual with Drake half the album degenerates into atmospherically pro forma synth presets and rhythmically clumsy attempts at gravitas.
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I think a number of companies, including and especially Uber, get really upset when you don't recognize the gravitas of their genius and the scope of how much they have changed.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Maurizio Cattelan's functional gold toilet "America" (2016) was just another of his pristinely fabricated practical jokes, until Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector gave it geopolitical gravitas.
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Wonder Woman represents a number of delicate balancing acts: between humor and gravitas; angst and adventure; full-blown, unvarnished superhero fantasy and the DCEU's usual unpacking of what those fantasies mean.
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Gravitas Maximus LLC — a Mercer investment vehicle through which he also funded the conservative outlet Breitbart — gave $25,000 to Project Veritas, according to a nonpublic portion of a 2012 tax form.
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Sometimes, though, it's because the Academy seems to ultimately assign more gravitas to films that competed in the Globes' drama categories than those that were billed as a comedy or musical.
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But with this project, not having it lends to the gravitas of the themes that we tackle—and it helps us stand out in a marketplace that's full of oversaturated color.
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But what a hook: it lends gravitas to the fact that Richard D. James Album was quite possibly the first electronic album of the post-rave era to be about something.
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Therefore, despite the gravitas of these young athletes' first big, world-stage outing, they've been tweeting, snapping, and behaving in ways which are easy to meme-ify all the way through.
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For the launch of Project Gravitas, the retailer will be merchandising straight- and plus-size clothing together, rather than separating the two and putting them in different parts of the store.
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However, analysts say he wants to retain Sports Direct's listed status because he believes it gives the firm gravitas in its negotiations with key suppliers - Nike, Adidas, Puma and Under Armour.
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He joined a new Trump campaign national security advisory group, and in late March 2016, the candidate pointed to Page, among others, as evidence of a foreign policy team with gravitas.
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He has gravitas, history and most importantly, he's show the loyalty necessary to at least approach Trump with the news that only he, apparently, remains unaware of: It's over, Mr. Trump.
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There is also nowt in t' world as funny as British people from outside Yorkshire imitating a Yorkshire accent, because anything non-serious spoken with that stone-faced gravitas is hilarious.
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Greg Mankiw, a conservative who headed the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, said in a blog post that Moore lacked the "intellectual gravitas" for the Fed post.
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Casting his friendship with May as a revival of the Ronald Reagan/Maggie Thatcher relationship is a good way for Trump to inject some much needed gravitas into his foreign policy.
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Start with "The Invention of Thanksgiving," a funny and moving four-minute animated video narrated by Smith in a style that he has of deadpan drollery with gravitas at its heart.
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Their big, goofy grins were a reminder that the Oscars are at their best when people are allowed to have a sense of humor as well as a sense of gravitas.
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With the legalization of gay marriage, Hopper notes, many queer couples sought out matrimony as a form of legal protection, not because it imbued their relationships with some previously unattainable gravitas.
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Though once loyal to the late, frosted-flakey Stannis Baratheon, he has a too-school-for-school gravitas that whoever withstands the Army of the Dead will need for future endeavors.
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Pollock's different chapters offer us glimpses into the crackles of Jungian energy, the twists of the maze, the cosmos of the drips, the gravitas of black, and the vivacity of Matisse.
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All of tech, and really much of the automotive industry, speaks of driverless cars with the gravitas of inevitability: In the future, driving yourself will be more foreign than you think.
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Some of them questioned whether Mr. O'Neill had the gravitas to lead the New York Police Department, the nation's most visible municipal force and a trendsetter in crime-fighting and counterterrorism.
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The new season meanders through the city's streets, with fast-food robberies, alligator standoffs, tense studio sessions and late nights at a strip club with a mixture of absurdity and gravitas.
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OK Computer, as pointed out by music critic Tim Footman, is "a collection of songs purposefully placed next to one another"—a consistent quality throughout their catalogue that bolsters their gravitas.
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That noise turns out to be coming from a television next door; it is merely misdirection like "Grand Horizons" as a whole, whose lunge at gravitas is too little, too late.
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But songwriting, which he tends to do improvisationally at the piano, "helped to sort of realize the gravitas of things and helped me reconnect and empathize with my mom," he said.
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Pop The fluid, multidirectional heft of Tony Allen's drumming helped define the sound and gravitas of Fela Kuti's Afrika 70 band, which pioneered the Afrobeat style in the 1960s and '70s.
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There's something profoundly satisfying—gravity as gravitas—about keeping company with the new Serras, as of being entrusted with a home truth of your and, for that matter, anything's earthly existence.
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"When you have someone who takes the time, and brings their gravitas and star power in, it's huge," said Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina state representative and CNN political analyst.
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Bill Clinton lent his reputation and gravitas to the company as it continued to grow, including during a period when an arm of the World Bank made a $150 million investment.
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Just as he saved the C.I.A. melodrama "Homeland" from its own histrionic urges, Mr. Lewis pulls "Billions," which begins on Sunday, back from the brink of macho outlandishness with his natural gravitas.
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Vice Presidential nominees are often called upon to unleash the kind of biting political attacks on the rival ticket that would seem unseemly and could compromise the gravitas of a presidential nominee.
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GIANNO CALDWELL, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: I thought it was a stupid and irresponsible comment and provides gravitas to those who would say that these owners have been utilizing players in a racial way.
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At first this background—earthy but with international gravitas, and unburdened by the compromises made during his party's four years in coalition under Mrs Merkel—seemed to give him a magic touch.
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And that is no mean feat for a President whom many critics had casually written off as a showman who supposedly lacked the gravitas or discipline to lead the world's greatest superpower.
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The list includes: BUZZR, Charge, Cheddar, Comet, CONtv, Dove Channel, DUST, FailArmy, Futurism, Gravitas, Mobcrush, MovieMix, NASA TV, Outdoor America, The Pet Collective, SOAR, Stadium, TBD, The T and World Poker Tour.
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"I am a big Boeing supporter, but this downgrade has gravitas and with the stock still up 16% year-to-date, I think ringing the register here does make sense," Cramer said.
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The New York-born Kennedy came by his military gravitas honestly; he served in World War II and spent 16 years in the U.S. Army, many of them with Armed Forces Radio.
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Researchers from the University of Buffalo and the University of Oulu in Finland used a metric to measure what they called "gravitas" of hedge fund names collected from a variety of databases.
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Horror villains are often scary because we don't know much about them; they're shrouded in mystery, which gives them a certain amount of gravitas and power that they can terrify us with.
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But some have given Exponent a reputation as a "hired gun," as The Los Angeles Times called Exponent in 240 — a company that will provide scientific affirmation and gravitas for a price.
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"Bill Hargates Costume, Iron Heads, and BYDESIGN also helped to construct the suit, which has metallic accents that add "gravitas to it and makes it look nice and rich and three-dimensional.
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"Having my mother's death and my daughter's birth coincide, it was very traumatic for everybody," he said with a rueful, nasal laugh, the kind he tends to affix to moments of gravitas.
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"Its gravitas was recognized by a diverse collection of astute bidders who pushed the bidding to a record level," Dan Imler, SCP vice president, said in a statement, referring to the papers.
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Roland Emmerich made sure his star-studded cast for "Midway" — which includes Nick Jonas, Woody Harrelson, and Luke Evans — understood the gravitas of the infamous World War II battle they were recreating.
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The liveliest chapters belong to Hazel, whose ironic perceptiveness imbues the soap-operatic turns of her middle years and the tough-love crustiness passed down from her mother with layers of gravitas.
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Mr. Moore and others have helped remnants of the board remain active in the White House, providing the administration with a constellation of religious figures to lend its platform gravitas among evangelicals.
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The widow trusted Schlesinger's gravitas as a historian, while her brother-in-law "had to position himself in relation to the dead president" as he got ready to run for office himself.
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He is certainly the quintessential American poet of the twentieth century, a doubting idealist who invested slight subjects (the weather, often) with oracular gravitas, and grand ones (death, frequently) with capering humor.
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In fact, the director of national intelligence caught up in the latest mess, Joseph Maguire, is on temporary assignment and, therefore, lacking the gravitas of an appointee who really owns the job.
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"We are looking for a dramatic, old townhouse with gravitas to film as part of our finale episode," a location manager wrote in a brief to Location Department's director, Kate Collings-Post.
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To add another layer of gravitas and glamour, Mr. Scaramucci brings in boldface names, who have included former President Bill Clinton, Mr. Bush, the actor Kevin Spacey and the band Maroon 5.
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Mr. Booker, the former mayor of Newark, may lack the historical gravitas of Mr. Lewis, but he may hold more weight for one reason: He will be testifying against a fellow senator.
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This novel's themes are echt Shepard: fathers and sons; shifting identities and competing versions of reality; a sense that there are watchers and there are watchees in this world of dusty gravitas.
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The fact that all these presidential candidates, who are trying to distinguish themselves from the president by saying they have gravitas and credibility, would so blindly follow her is a little shocking.
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Samberg's goofy energy has always been a perfect foil for Braugher's grounded gravitas, but they find themselves a worthy scene partner in Brown, who barely blinks when thrown into their chaotic midst.
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Jones, an actor who brings real gravitas to the right roles, comes across as bored, low-energy, and vaguely confused, which is fair given that most of his scenes involve incomprehensible exposition.
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In fact, when the NPG contacted Yeo to request a portrait of the actor, it seems to have been less interested in immortalizing Spacey's dramatic gravitas, or even his presidential character's addictive misandry.
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Live action is the dominant mode for movie and TV superheroes, whether they fight for DC or Marvel, who embrace the gravitas that comes with flesh-and-blood actors over animation's exaggerated expression.
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Mash that up with teenage angst, which is a Schwartz and Savage specialty, and the show is about as far as it gets from the save-the-world gravitas of the Avengers films.
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Mr. Trump has assumed an imposing front-runner's position, achieving the kind of political stature that might prompt another candidate to reach for the dignity and gravitas Americans typically expect from a president.
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The fact that the film is also sparking major conversations about representation also gives it added heft and gravitas, two things the Academy tends to go for when choosing which movies to consider.
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"I launched my company based on my first piece of professional feedback — I needed to find gravitas to be successful, most specifically a wardrobe that made me feel like best self," says Sun.
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The President now faces the kind of test that confronted earlier presidents, some of whom demonstrated the ability to respond with confidence, with gravitas, and with the right mix of diplomacy and militarism.
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Someone with gravitas may also do a better job of standing up to the central government's pro-green-belt leanings (though the mayors of London have so far shied away from such battles).
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Factor in the sheer gravitas of Celia Cruz, one of the most influential Latin singers of the 20th century, and there's small reason to wonder why Cubans are so proud of being Cuban.
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That sentiment as much as any conveys the spirit of this collection of individuals, whose style—a powerful combination of caprice and gravitas—set the pace of the dance for decades to come.
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Bottom line: Trump likes the gravitas and air of seriousness the Situation Room brings even though it is technically just another conference room when national security and classified information is not being discussed.
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Economists across the political spectrum recoiled at Trump's choice of Moore, a commentator fiercely loyal to the president and a sharp critic of the Fed, raising questions about his independence and academic gravitas.
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She grew up poor in Brooklyn and made a career on the force of her intelligence; she's a mother and had a long and happy marriage; she blends female gravitas and earthy humor.
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Natalie Paul ("The Deuce") plays the newly minted detective on the case, and Tracy Letts ("Lady Bird") plays her father, lending the show more gravitas than you might expect from a USA series.
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The preconception, for instance, that you need a man and a woman hosting — like a mom and dad — and that, often, the man is cast as the one who lends gravitas and authority.
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It's also about fixing the industry: In this 21st century, we should be long past the double-standard that allows men to age with gravitas while women are saddled with an expiration date.
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" A big, upholstered armchair, for instance, can ground a seating area and lend a sense of gravitas, Mr. Meyer said, but "a chair with legs conveys a sense of airiness, flexibility and mobility.
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This structure gave him a chance to demonstrate his belief that modernism was capable of producing works with the gravitas, the sense of permanence, and the popular appeal of the greatest traditional structures.
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But the Super Bowl is nothing if not pageantry and entertainment, and while the bloviators in the booths slather on the myth and gravitas, Johnny and Tara can provide the sorely needed fun.
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In works like "Helix," the electronic, granular low end of Ms. Moran's setup suggests the gravitas of a pipe organ — and also works as a foil for her graceful and percussive live pianism.
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"The very existence of an opportunity for the current president [to be reelected], given his major gravitas, would be a stabilizing factor for our society," Tereshkova, the former high-ranking Communist official, said.
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Meek Mill started things off with a crisp verse that led seamlessly into an appearance by Roddy Ricch, a surging talent from Nipsey's own neighborhood, before John Legend did his instant-gravitas thing.
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Fitting for an accomplished stage actor who knew the value of filling a room, Rickman's voice was deep and resonant, with the kind of intrinsic gravitas most actors need years to even approach.
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For some reason Rihanna has chosen to thrice bless his career with "Love the Way You Lie" and "The Monster" and one of the most enormous (in cultural gravitas) collaborative tours of all time.
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We always look for having enough stakes that there feels like gravitas, but sometimes that can be just because you're going to lose your father or lose your parent or find your loved one.
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With all the gravitas that the sonorous cast could muster, they emphasized a human element among the violence, illustrating the ease with which jealousy, arrogance, or anger can drive a person to homicidal extremes.
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Even better is Hopkins, who seems to be having the time of his life as Burton, perhaps because he gets to drop the dignified gravitas or once and play up his goofy, eccentric side.
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Although the 44-year-old congressman seems to wear a permanent grimace in public, as if trying to lend his boyish face some gravitas, in private he is a bit of a bon vivant.
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FRANKFURT, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Red Arrow Entertainment Group, part of Germany's ProSiebenSat 1 Media, has acquired a majority stake in U.S.-based film distribution company Gravitas Ventures, the Munich-based broadcaster said on Wednesday.
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I will confess that before I saw him in Iowa, I also had the impression that he could never surmount the gravitas gap facing a candidate more famous for his time in a failed
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Analysts say Maggi has enough gravitas to make sure Temer's Cabinet gives the farm sector a fair shake even as the ministries of finance, foreign relations and the environment address Brazil's severe economic crisis.
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On her Instagram feed, red-carpet shots of her clients are scattered among statements supporting causes such as Black Lives Matter —glamour and gravitas reinforcing each other in a very contemporary kind of synergy.
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A marble portrait head — possibly a Roman copy of an original bronze by his court artist, Lysippos — likely reflects what the ruler looked like: generically dishy with a designer haircut, Justin Bieber with gravitas.
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Alexa Bliss and Mickie James wrestled an extremely good title match which showcased both Bliss's burgeoning ability to capture a crowd as a cowardly but competent heel and James's late career in-ring gravitas.
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And finally, because her work existed in the domestic sphere, and was made to be lived with, used, and discarded, her work lacked the gravitas necessary to ground it in the canon of design.
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The trickier part is actually finding an actor who's — actress — who's young enough to pass for Jazz, but at the same time has the gravitas and name recognition to draw people into the theaters.
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Listen to how well the recording captures Mr. Hutcherson's muted clangs and chiming overtones — along with the bleats, harrumphs and gargles of Mr. Dolphy's bass clarinet, and the deep gravitas of Richard Davis's bass.
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To some, though, Greenberg's intentionally ridiculous play failed to treat the HIV epidemic with the appropriate gravitas — a criticism taken seriously by the playwright himself, who has blocked it from being revived on Broadway.
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As Brutus, Brandon J. Dirden — an actor of intrinsic warmth and gravitas — communicates Brutus's nobility, though to sell it he often falls into the rhythms of a sermon, and even this characterization feels thin.
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From the article: Gravitas Maximus LLC — a Mercer investment vehicle through which he also funded the conservative outlet Breitbart — gave $25,000 to Project Veritas, according to a nonpublic portion of a 2012 tax form.
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Even then, at this time of profound national fear and disorientation, Mr. Johnson could not speak with gravitas, only with the odd, stagy emphasis of a man pretending while half his mind is elsewhere.
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The United Nations agreed that its Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura, would attend, lending Sochi gravitas, if Russia would stop trying to make Sochi, not Geneva, the site of discussions for rewriting Syria's Constitution.
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Mr. Abloh is a genius at giving brand language the gravitas of meta-cultural-commentary, but in this case, his Meteor Shower (that was the title of the collection) was more like a drizzle.
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"He has lost any personal link to that deep, crucial, reservoir of gravitas we confer, automatically, on our PMs simply because of their position," The Canberra Times newspaper columnist Nicholas Stuart wrote on Tuesday.
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Cummings possessed a preacher's oratorial skill with the common man's touch — the exact rhetorical powers and gravitas that Democrats will need to unite their caucus as they consider a move as divisive as impeachment.
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He started on Broadway, where he starred in such challenging works as Marat/Sade (1967), and in film he brought dignity and gravitas to one of the peak achievements of American cinema, the Godfather films.
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Actors like Sir Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender stand head and shoulders above most performers in the franchise, thanks in part to Magneto's unique pathos, but also because of those actors' sheer presence and gravitas.
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Aides said that they were disappointed because Patrick, whether he won or lost, would have brought a needed sense of distinction and gravitas to the race, talking about the issues he carried into the midterms.
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It seems blithely unconcerned about being respected or winning awards, and the gravitas of Mr. Giamatti and Mr. Lewis are deployed like blunt instruments, the rhetorical equivalent of cave men beating each other with clubs.
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Season four's sweep is, in some ways, a little cheap (when you've written off as many characters as this show has, it's easy to buy gravitas by bringing a few back), but it's also entertaining.
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Project Gravitas CEO and founder Lisa Sun remembers needing to go to different departments than her friends when they would all go shopping, and it's a feeling she doesn't wish for any of her customers.
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British Vogue traditionally features a Q&A-format piece on its last page, and, Markle said, she wanted "someone kind, inspirational, motivating, funny, with gravitas and as much depth as levity" to do the honor.
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But critics say he lacks the gravitas of a true leader and some questioned whether he could deal with one of what is likely to be one of the most demanding premierships in recent years.
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It sounds heavy, but since we've all seen Moore handle the gravitas of A Walk To Remember — not to mention her heartrending scenes in This Is Us — we know she'll handle it all with aplomb.
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That's exactly what Franken has been doing on the Hill these past few weeks, and it packs more punch than his books ever did because he has the gravitas and pulpit of a U.S. senator.
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Republicans believe Portman, who was also seen as a possible VP in 2012, would add gravitas to the White House ticket and help deliver to the GOP column Ohio, which decided the 2004 presidential election.
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Rather than bemoan the celebrification of government politics, as some in the commentariat have already done, we should value the politicization—the new gravitas of its speech, the new responsibility for its consequences—of celebrity.
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That much was abundantly clear in a speech he gave on Monday, reading with faux gravitas from a teleprompter about the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando that killed 49 people early Sunday morning.
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While he may not have the smoothness and gravitas of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the adviser said, "he certainly won't be" the sweaty and pale Richard Nixon that appeared in 1960 versus John F. Kennedy.
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Other than that, no one, out of this powerful group of people, has the gravitas any more to speak up, too strangled as they are by worries about shareholder value and possible retribution from Trump.
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However, it will take more than intelligence, gravitas, an open mind and political savvy to convince North Korea to abandon a nuclear weapons program its ruling family has long seen as essential to its survival.
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Her innate gravitas is such that even the cutesy motions Ms. Cram sometimes puts Seton through (Toussaint styles her hair; she enjoys trying out a contemporary vulgarity) do not diminish our faith in her authority.
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Anne's transformations are easy to see as part of a trend in TV and film, one in which suffering has become indistinguishable from gravitas and even the most cheerful superheroes come complete with psychological baggage.
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In an on camera appearance apparently meant to project presidential gravitas and temperament, the former vice president said that if Trump failed to provide information about the case, he would leave lawmakers with no choice.
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In an on-camera appearance apparently meant to project presidential gravitas and temperament, the former vice president said that if Trump failed to provide information about the case, he would leave lawmakers with no choice.
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That performance-capture veteran lent a soulful gravitas to the chimp Caesar, who leads the movie's ape faction with such rectitude and grace that it makes the audience want to root against its own species.
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Similarly, Gravitas, which makes flood prevention equipment near Manchester in northern England, had its best month ever in August, with 150,000 pounds of orders from the United States and Hong Kong, managing director Jacob Sallon said.
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On the flip side, there's a weird sense of gravitas to the label, which has been applied to strong allies and villains like Grace Jones' May Day, Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp, or Michelle Yeoh's Wai Lin.
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After a few dozen ounces of formula, my baby was clearly thriving, his skin pinker and damper and his dumps gaining in gravitas, but every scoop of Similac I bottled seemed to pile on my failure.
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But if esports is committed to professionalizing and wants to be perceived with an ounce of gravitas, it could start by adopting globally recognized standards that work to dismantle the hurdles players must confront in unionizing.
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Before we brace ourselves for a lot of self-important Hollywood types thanking each other at the Oscars, we're taking this moment to thank the folks who have tossed off the veil of reverence and gravitas.
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It's easy to forget that D'Souza, who in recent years has become best known for his attacks on Barack Obama's "anticolonial" agenda and his thesis that Democrats are the real racists, once enjoyed a certain gravitas.
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The formal looseness that makes Louis C.K.'s stand-up and his FX series so pleasingly unpredictable undercuts the gravitas of this show's subject matter, which jumps from stories of suicide to abuse, racism and cancer.
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Instead, we got a boring anti-spectacle of half-hearted strikes and a couple high-impact moves through tables, all called by an announcing team that sounded shockingly bored, especially given the gravitas of the situation.
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Then there are those that think its follow-up , In Utero, was the better record because Steve Albini recorded it, which resulted in that unrelentingly, coarse sound that gave Kurt Cobain's deeply anguished lyrics significant gravitas.
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If there's one leader who should recognize the historic gravitas of the moment and rise to it with stirring rhetoric matched by action, it's the man who modeled his political career on Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson.
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In an era when Americans are so cynical about Washington and politics has become so bitterly partisan, it would be nice to have a few events that command respect, attention, and convey a gravitas about government.
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"Clearly, this is something one would never see with people that don't have that sort of level of gravitas within their organization, if you will," Trask, now an analyst for CBS, said in a telephone interview.
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He looks the part, from his height to his square chin, with a conservatively trimmed but very healthy shock of gray hair that gives him a reassuring gravitas that his youth (he's 49) might otherwise belie.
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Chanel, Fendi The Industry Bids Adieu To The King Of Tweed This season carried an unmistakable gravitas as the February 19 death of Karl Lagerfeld saw the industry mourn the German designer and reflect on his legacy.
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Episode three's gut-punch ending uses Peter Gabriel's cover of Bowie's "Heroes" devastatingly; the track is a 2010 cover of an 80s act, lent more gravitas in 2016 due to the still-open wound of Bowie's passing.
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While Edward manages at least a bit of gravitas during the power jockeying and magical experimentation, their intrigues play out more like a Vampire: The Masquerade live-action role-playing game than a conflict with real stakes.
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Mids are crisp and clear, the highs can grab your attention, and while the bass is on the tamer side, there's still a satisfying low rumble with enough gravitas to bring life to a Metro Boomin production.
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Trump enters the convention under pressure to show more discipline, gravitas, and sobriety in his freewheeling campaign ahead of an election in which a new CNN/ORC poll shows he trails Democrat Hillary Clinton by five points.
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Money managers and economists have offered their opinion on the nomination of Christine Lagarde as the European Central Bank's (ECB) new president, noting her gravitas on the international stage but her lack of experience on monetary policy.
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Coldplay responded with some of the most mechanistically devastating songs in their repertoire and remained a nose ahead of the competition thanks to the blunt force pairing of Martin's ever-sharpening directness and his band's matching gravitas.
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If you believe that long-term investment outperformance is a chimera then your investing should be done with institutions which do relatively easier things, like tracking an index cheaply, rather than more difficult ones requiring, well, gravitas.
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But as they await a $100,000 ransom payment, the salon Marxists try to get Baird to embrace their line of thinking; hell, they even have Herbert Marcuse there with them to lend their "study group" additional gravitas.
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I wonder if the magic of the movies—the semi-permanent stamp that some pictures make on the mind—might chip away at Turner's hard-earned gravitas, just as surely as, initially, it helped build her myth.
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There's the innocent virgin: they've never heard of the stuff, but they often instantly recognize a sort of gravitas to the name, which sounds like the name of a cunning old wizard or a sinister Lovecraftian beast.
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His status in the Vine program injects the typically frivolous art of the customer review with a sense of gravitas, and he goes the extra mile of analysis on even the most mundane products in his purview.
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While the gravitas of being a former professional athlete may have helped, so did Boone's investing in the boys, periodically texting parents on how their child was developing, and using setbacks on the field as teachable moments.
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As music's attitude and center have frantically shifted from decade to decade, one of the few constants has been Tony Bennett — since 1950 he has been relentless in his charm, gravitas and commitment to the American Songbook.
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His film about "Moby-Dick" and the artists it has inspired, "Call Us Ishmael," is distributed by Gravitas Ventures and is available on Blu-ray and DVD through Amazon and on streaming services iTunes and Google Play.
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His richly toned and finely detailed black-and-white photographs of East Africa's surreal landscapes and wild creatures have the regal tone of court portraiture, a timeless, cinematic confidence, and the complex emotional gravitas of character studies.
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It would probably work on home VR headsets, but like movies that should only be seen in theaters, it benefits a lot from the gravitas of a physical installation with another human being in the same space.
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The space — one room in an industrial building in New York's Garment District, wedged between a deli and a storefront that specializes in metal snaps — operates as both a factory and headquarters for her clothing label, Gravitas.
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Mr. Mandela exuded a gravitas and natural authority that Mr. Mugabe could never match, and many believed that his resentment of Mr. Mandela's easy dominance of the global stage turned Mr. Mugabe inward, to nurse his grievances.
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"While the virus headcount stories don't carry the same headline gravitas, it's still a focal point while the economic data fears continue to simmer on the back burner," Stephen Innes, Asia Pacific market strategist at AxiCorp, said.
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Brexit will be fiendishly difficult, but there is no reason it has to be draped in so much nationalistic gravitas and secrecy, nor does it have to mean the hugely risky departure from the European single market.
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"The little skit we taped in my office matches the seriousness and gravitas that should be afforded to the Chairman and his team for this transparent action to derail a federal investigation into serious wrongdoing," Gutiérrez said.
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But then, Breaking Bad's ability to mix gravitas, beauty, comedy, and meditative darkness is what fans love about it, and while humor is absent from the trailer, it's got enough of the rest to make us excited.
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His entire campaign for the presidency is premised on the idea that he can sell himself as "larger than life," that asserting that he has the gravitas necessary to become president will actually bestow it on him.
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The visuals and score give the film an added depth and gravitas — even as cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom indulges in frequent 1970s-style snap zooms — that help the different threads feel warranted, in spite of the premise's potential silliness.
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Land Rover Range Rover Plug-in hybrid Land Rover has long been the maker of the guilty pleasure SUV — big, burly vehicles that have fine fit and finish, ample power to overcome extreme conditions, and old English gravitas.
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Fiorina has emerged as a loyal Cruz supporter, one with fresh gravitas who can take the stage Saturday at the California Republican Party Convention in Burlingame to pitch him as the best choice as the party's presidential nominee.
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" Hornsey would not comment on any potential candidates for the role, but she said Uber's search committee is looking for someone who has been a CEO before, has gravitas and "can lead this organization through its next iteration.
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So thank goddess that women in Hollywood turned the Golden Globes into an opportunity to acknowledge that there's a lot more work ahead of us, and that we can still treat a shitty situation with humor and gravitas.
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Life With Archie No. 275 is one of the great single issues in recent comics history, a tearjerker that brilliantly uses the history of Archie Comics to bring heartbreaking gravitas to the death of the company's flagship character.
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With his multi-year run on Black Panther, Priest established Black Panther as a cool, ass-kicking hero and brought respect and gravitas to the character who had been lost in the shuffle since his debut in 1966.
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Eager to expand the left-leaning coalition he has built during his campaign, Mr. Sanders has been pushing his colleagues to take on policy fights that helped propel his base's passion and gave him new gravitas among Democrats.
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" Sorensen adds gravitas: "Every casual statement by you or a member of your staff – on or off the record – that was previously a matter of politics or public relations will hereafter be regarded as Presidential and national policy.
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Mr. Trump began his speech with a focused message about jobs and the economy, lamenting a lost era in the United States of bringing change on a grand scale, and the absence of his signature boastfulness added gravitas.
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"Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job," wrote Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers for former President George W. Bush.
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He's still popular with Republicans, and he has a gravitas that both Cruz and Rubio lack; he's a flip-flopper, but nobody doubts his patriotism; he can drive media attention in a way that, say, Ben Sasse cannot.
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This amount of cultural normalcy is so rare in comics, and it adds another level of purpose and near-gravitas to this fun, silly comic about a girl who can polymorph her body into different sizes and shapes.
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Woof. You get what you pay for—or don't, in this case—and it proves a real problem when the game is trying to sell traumatic moments requiring a grasp of gravitas and subtly to help it land.
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Melding her voice into the keyboard shimmer on "The Body is a Blade," shrinking her voice to a hushed whisper on "Till Death" to suit the strummed gravitas, she feels the electric energy sputtering deep in her bones.
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The former president was an apolitical Lone Star Yankee, revered for long ago helping to give an international gravitas to a city where he lived off and on since the 21990s and spent his post-White House years.
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"Ozark" uses Marty's voice-over musings about hard work and the wages of parenthood to give the appearance of gravitas, but the show's through line is really just his resourcefulness in the face of gruesome, cartel-style justice.
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In 2014, she skewered the portentous first season of "True Detective" with a perfect line that's still scathing but reads rather differently now, five years later: "The show has got so much gravitas it could run for president."
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I mean, in some ways it's refreshing to have a candidate who is not completely scripted but at the same time he lacks the decorum and stage presence and gravitas to deal with foreign leaders on the world stage.
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She maintains the sass of the barely 20-something Allen of 2006, but the newly 30-something Allen has the gravitas of someone who has lived a bit of life, knows herself, and is trying to overcome her weaknesses.
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But rarely has an artist visualized the interstellar phenomenon with such poetic gravitas as this Polish-German artist, whose rooftop commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejiggers the concept as a critical lens aimed at New York City.
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During these largely pointless exercises, the point is to contribute using the mere gravitas of your presence, make other people's ideas seem like your ideas, and look like a true leader by questioning the efficiency of the whole process.
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Rafiki: Forest Whitaker We'd love to see what kind of spin The Last King of Scotland Oscar-winner would put on the wise baboon's Jamaican-ish accent, and imbue Rafiki's koans with the perfect mix of levity and gravitas.
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With Walter Cronkite adding his signature gravitas, we saw Neil Armstrong take his first steps on a celestial body that wasn't the Earth and Buzz Aldrin place the American flag on the nation's most distant conquest in July, 1969.
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When you separate the contents from the two boxes, there's the book and then there's a print that portrays the MOTU characters with so much gravitas and seriousness that Thomas Morton laughed when I showed the book to him.
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The Hanks we see in Inferno has little of the actor's famous wit or gravitas; it's star power delivered without much distinction, a reminder to be grateful that he hasn't done too many of these movies in his career.
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How closely its contents were intended to reflect the tragic goings-on in "Lear" is also unknown — but its blend of whiskey, vermouth, lemon juice, kümmel (a liqueur laced with caraway and other spices) and bitters has appropriate gravitas.
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Cage may have ceded the summer blockbuster space to Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, but he's still the same actor who blew us away in Adaptation and Matchstick Men, and lent his eccentric gravitas to Kick-Ass.
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The towering Brown (whom I can't help imagining being played in the movie adaptation, with equal parts gravitas and humor, by Tyler Perry) not only teaches Green to sing but, crucially, runs interference for him with his volatile mother.
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The setting is a party inside a theater marked for demolition, to which the onetime impresario Dimitri Weismann (Gary Raymond, coupling bonhomie with gravitas) has invited the Follies showgirls of his — and their — glory years for one last hurrah.
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They want gravitas with their groundstrokes, and do not want this three-day duel between a team representing Europe and a team representing the rest of the world to be just another hit-and-chuckle payday for the stars.
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With the accumulated gravitas he's earned over the course of three decades, Smits plays Elijah Strait, an elite, revered Memphis civil rights attorney who's recently added his canny, crusading and once-estranged daughter Sydney (Caitlin McGee) to his firm.
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"Sammy the Bull" is still viewed as a mobster, and Cohen lacks the gravitas of John Dean, the former Nixon White House counsel who cooperated with prosecutors in the Watergate scandal and became the poster child of turncoat redemption.
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While it may not have the star power of Art Basel Miami or the gravitas of Art Basel in Switzerland, dealers and collectors agree: When it comes to Asian art, Art Basel Hong Kong is the place to go.
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And then they ask Ryan and McConnell about it, and they have to sort of pretend like it's a real thing they're responding to, and they give it this sort of gravitas that everyone on the planet knows doesn't exist.
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The film ends with a shot of Christie and Nolte in a cathartic release of emotional turmoil; despite spending equal time with the other couple, Rudolph knows where to find the gravitas necessary to stick the landing on this compelling film.
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When we called things off over two months ago, our once-intimate relationship became an ongoing back-and-forth of Likes on Facebook and Instagram, a series of clicks that assumed, in my mind, the emotional gravitas of a Dostoyevsky novel.
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The script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely does a highly skilled balancing act, weighing the levity we've come to expect from these characters (there's a great Captain America butt joke) with the gravitas required by the stakes at hand.
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This part in Waco is the sort of role that Kitsch could've/should've taken after Friday Night Lights — one that plays on his charisma, his association with Texas, his gravitas, but manages to twist, darken, and complicate all of it.
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Often, though, their gestures come off as sententious and insincere (but I'm sure Mia Farrow really does love her black children), transparently performative actions to ensure that they're included in whatever the topic du jour is, adding gravitas to their image.
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The graphic novel is visually dynamic and fantastical in a way that suggested it might only work in animation, but Walter gives it a real-world gravitas that falls somewhere between a del Toro film and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village.
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When the episode flits back to "After the Final Rose" — the purpose of this format escapes me; it means that Chris Harrison spends the episode creating faux-gravitas — Harrison notes that there are likely tears "all over the country" mirroring Blake's.
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As we saw in Captain America: Civil War, Chadwick Boseman brings to T'Challa a regal sort of gravitas – but his performance and the script by Joe Robert Cole make room for T'Challa's warmth and humor to shine through as well.
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"In the episode where Gina and Terry try to boost Captain Holt's social media presence by making Instagram pictures of Cheddar, there is a scene where Holt gives a moving speech filled with gravitas about honor and duty," Goor said.
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The gastronomic heart of the world, Italy is a place where food is taken seriously, and its status as a culinary destination gives it the gravitas and credibility to be among the first to raise questions about the future of nutrition.
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The Perecian tack of dramatizing silence and absence maintains the gravitas, decorum, and restraint common to human grieving rituals and to public memorials such as Berlin's Holocaust Memorial, Washington D.C.'s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and New York City's 9/11 Memorial.
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My aim for this issue of Aperture and selecting the theme of vision and justice was to create an issue that would have writers, photographers, poets, scholars, whose level of mastery and gravitas on work matched the weight of this topic.
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But in what has become a truly bizarre chain of events, the president was apparently serious about his real estate offer and deeply offended that the Danish government was not considering it with the same gravitas he thought it merited.
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Crowley's downfall has left Pelosi critics scrambling in search of another challenger bearing the requisite combination of experience, gravitas, popularity — and not least, interest — to take on Pelosi, a political juggernaut who's led the party for the past 2628 years.
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Putin would greatly appreciate a retired senior intelligence officer, with the experience and gravitas of Clapper, elevating the Kremlin's throw weight to the point where Russia was able to compete on a par with its "Main Enemy," the United States.
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Previous versions of the project were installed in poster form, but this version's sturdier materials (nylon banners hung from wood poles) give the work a statelier feel and create a fitting tension between its form's gravitas and its content's jarring levity.
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Films like these treat polyamory with the gravitas that television's Arrested Development gives to Lindsay and Tobias Fünke, who open their marriage and constantly sabotage each other (or themselves) in their search for casual sex: It's never given its proper due.
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Thus the rare cold open, wherein Ian McShane—who elegantly described the show as "tits and dragons"—brought gravitas (and collected a paycheck) as a reborn killer who has traded in his swords to lead a community of hardscrabble peaceniks.
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She chose to have a vastly greater press presence than the Congressional Research Service, which as Joyce says "bends over backwards to be low profile," or the Government Accountability Office, which conducts auditing but also lacks the CBO's public gravitas.
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This year alone, for example, Pluto TV announced over 40 partnership deals with Warner Bros, Lionsgate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Bloomberg, Al Jazeera English, Cheddar, Gravitas Ventures, Asylum, Viz Media, Electronic Music Awards, Big Sky Conference, Stadium, Jukin Media, and JASH.
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But it doesn't have that zeitgeist-capturing gravitas of Frigid Forms Sell, a record that exemplified the punk scene as it pivoted from one millennium—and one way of viewing how we interface with machines and each other—to the next.
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One would normally struggle to find much room in a gallery so small, but Sharp has managed to make it feel spare and breathable — a necessity to give the work the kind of gravitas conferred upon it by Timoney's devotees.
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But overall, while Trump may believe that selecting Flynn would give the ticket some badly needed gravitas on national security, what it would actually do is bring Trump's own iconoclasm on foreign policy to the fore — for better or for worse.
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So far, his campaign has leaned toward deference, disappointing some admirers (and even more Democrats) who hoped he would re-emerge chiefly as an unswerving Trump critic with gravitas — at last banishing the reputation for equivocation that dogged his presidential bids.
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"Jack Whitaker brought thoughtful perspective, a sports fan's passion and dignified gravitas to his every assignment, and his graceful prose elevated the presentation of sports' biggest events," John Skipper, then-president of ESPN, said at the 2012 Sports Emmy Awards Gala.
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"Jerry Brown will be a hard act to follow, because of his gravitas, his expertise, his clear priorities and his negotiating skill," said Miriam Pawel, an author who has just written a history of California told through Mr. Brown's family.
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But as the week progressed, Mr. Cuomo's gestures gained gravitas, as it became clearer that New York — unbeknown to the governor and other local public officials — was being sent hundreds of the children separated from their parents at the border.
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Someone with an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa or a job in the New York publishing field knows people who might invite her to be on a panel or write a piece for a publication, conferring crucial visibility and gravitas.
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Projecting both glamour and gravitas, Ms. dos Santos, worth $3.5 billion according to Forbes, mingles with Hollywood and European celebrities, and recently gave a speech at the London School of Economics — all of which she has documented on her Instagram account.
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And the gorgeous drag queen garb may be glam, but according to King, he and Charles worked hard to ensure that the gravitas of the series and its heavy-ish theme balanced with the sheen of the lights and performances.
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The actor Claire Danes voices the narrator, Offred (the book's second section, given over to the perspectives of other handmaids, is read by a full cast), with an appropriately theatrical gravitas, her voice so dramatic at points that it trembles.
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Mr. McIntyre, who lends gravitas to just about any occasion, has made a wonderful series of videos about grammar usage on his "You Don't Say" language blog, and I highly recommend them, if not just to feel better about yourself.
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" At the same time, the ally stressed that whoever is brought in would have to have enough gravitas to carry out major changes, saying, "He's going to have to bring in a real, real political pro to fix this thing.
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Giuseppe Conte, the resigning prime minister who is also tasked to lead the new Salvini-free government, instantly gained international credibility and personal gravitas, having spent the past 14 months as a pocket-squared puppet controlled by the populist coalition.
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" Ortberg delights in masculinity even while wondering at the ridiculousness of its gravitas — of the "baffling little burr of my new vocal cords," of the fantasy of maleness as consumption without guilt, a life of just inhaling "whatever number of pancakes.
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The primary issue is the affront to protocol, as well as reported concern for the safety of the intelligence source, which was compounded by the impression that the leak came from a witless leader oblivious to the gravitas of his office.
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That idea is best expressed, not by Jo — exquisitely brought to life by Ronan in a headstrong, clear-eyed performance — but little Amy, whom Pugh portrays with a perpetual pout and far more gravitas than she's been given in the past.
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He has earned plenty of gravitas over the years, but he seems too restless to spend it, embarking instead on a series of experiments in rhythm and texture, and honing in his lyrics a shrugging acceptance of an imperfect world.
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Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, on the other hand, was a futuristic action cartoon, dramatizing a battle with giant space bugs; its gravitas was best summarized by the fact that its director's previous film was the widely reviled 1995 stripper drama Showgirls.
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I mean, they also do cheesy, horrible things, but at their best, they do mingle the gravitas with the irreverence, and they put it all together with a very sort of raised eyebrow skeptical tone, which I've always liked very much.
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Carlson's general point is correct: While much of the president's agenda, from his travel ban to Obamacare repeal, has been held up or diluted in the courts and Congress, Sessions has been the rare figure putting real policy gravitas behind Trumpism.
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The Getty Research Institute's exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions brings some gravitas back to the title, perhaps ironically, by showcasing the work of the groundbreaking Swiss curator whose intellectual scope extended well beyond the confines of the contemporary art world.
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The level of gravitas applied to the occasion at N'Namdi underscored both Sims's seriousness in his consideration of the transformative power of the act and a desire to elevate the proceeding above the acts of terrorism to which it serves as a counterpoint.
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About an hour before the president was due to start speaking, aides scrambled to rearrange the lectern placement to allow Trump to enter from Cross Hall — producing a dramatic television shot that has traditionally lent gravitas and a presidential air to official statements.
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The effects in Day After Tomorrow had more weight and gravitas, and were more convincing; there's a glib feeling of frantic speed to Geostorm's disaster sequences that make them feel a bit like the hilariously elaborate cosmic deathtraps of the Final Destination movies.
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Since I was already familiar with the tragedy of Freeman's life, the in-person encounter had an extra layer of gravitas — and visceral body horror — that would have been that much more difficult for the show to create purely on its own.
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Summoning all his hard-earned gravitas, the man who saved the American economy, rescued the auto industry, expanded health care coverage and gave the order to have Osama bin Laden killed, handed the baton to his onetime rival, now his close friend.
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The initial announcement was predictably met with derision and backlash on social media, largely from film critics and pundits who suggested the purpose of the award was to acknowledge immediately popular films like Black Panther without diluting the Academy's self-perceived gravitas.
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As Allie, McAdams crackles with the energy of a young woman who refuses to be contained by the expectations and mores of her social class, while Gosling gives quiet gravitas to a solemn but charming young man who's content with his life.
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But, they got nowhere—often relying on negotiations with Russian MMA household name Fedor Emelianenko and his manager Vadim Finkelstein with the hope a major coup such as that would provide enough gravitas to justify the introduction of UFC events in the country.
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Herschel Supply Co. Novel Duffel Bag, available at Nordstrom, from $85Just like bringing a beat-up JanSport into an office, lugging a multi-colored nylon gym bag in isn't ideal for anyone looking to prove their gravitas despite being the youngest person there.
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After taking command of the Democratic nominating race in Tuesday's primaries, the former vice president projected presidential-style gravitas, positioning himself as the antidote to President Donald Trump's in-denial stewardship of the novel coronavirus crisis in a strategic pivot towards November's election.
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The "graybeards" running baseball were "making a mess of things," Briggs declared in decrying a leadership vacuum, and then he cited former Postmaster General James Farley and Hoover as potential replacements with the proper gravitas to cure what he viewed as baseball's ills.
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Hungary's vast pro-government media network, which includes public media and scores of nominally private media outlets controlled by the prime minister's allies, lauded Mr. Orban's visit to the White House as validation of the prime minister's politics and gravitas in global politics.
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Despite leaving his full-time position at the company in 2008, Gates has continued to devote attention and passion to the giant he founded, and no one serving as a director could possibly bring the gravitas and pedigree he carries to the boardroom.
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In particular, I hated canned beetroot (or beets, as they're known in the United States), but it is their sweetness, density and slight fudginess that give the sandwich its gravitas, challenging the fresh crunch of all the other vegetables and creating balance.
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I could flatter myself and say that it was just because I was really good at my job, but the fact is that my age and life experience had provided me with the gravitas necessary to appear more knowledgeable than my younger peers.
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But he displayed gravitas beyond his 34 years of age when his own aides, most of them twice his age, bowed deeply before him as they sent him off and welcomed him back home at the airport in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
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From late 2007, when I stepped down as head of the M.T.A., until Mr. Lhota became chairman the first time around in 2012, there were a couple of unimpressive chairmen who lacked the management skills and gravitas to head such a crucial agency.
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He comes, that is, in a blaze of press, which would be the envy of anyone who thinks for a living except for the fact that the pursuit of glamour, per se, has never sat well with an impression of intellectual gravitas.
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Long dubbed the "curse" of the State of the Union response, lawmakers tasked with following the grandiose speech from the President have struggled to counter with the same gravitas, and some seem to have jinxed their own political aspirations down the road.
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They want the readership of creative professionals who travel business class to know the latest vegan currywurst hot spots in Berlin, and crave more gravitas from foreign dispatches than, say, is in Monocle's earnest short profiles on sustainability-minded Danish design executives.
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In the same way a great score can manipulate viewers' emotions, heightening drama and adding gravitas to a storyline, moviegoers subconsciously associate color with feeling, from the passion and strength associated with crimson hues to the serenity connoted by deep blues and greens.
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On the heels of Lord & Taylor launching Project Gravitas and the debut of plus-size fashion blogger-approved brands like Premme and Eloquii's fashion-forward collections, LOFT is the latest mass market brand to join the rosters of retailers offering a new extended sizes section.
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Veteran Star Wars screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan partnered with his son Jonathan on the script, which teeters smoothly back and forth between witty banter and more emotional gravitas, and though the film starts off a little clunky and heavy-handed, it finds its way quickly enough.
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"I would propose a White House that blends the best of Southern hospitality with the gravitas of her adopted home state, New York," she explains of her design, which features art and furnishings by leading female talents: Fabrics would come from Brooklyn maker Tara Chapas.
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Choosing a karaoke song is always a weighty task but if you're one of the most controversial rappers dueting with one of the most controversial tech figures, both of whom have some amends to make, then the song choice takes on a particular gravitas.
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When two opponents have a clear mutual dislike for one another, pre-fight heat almost always provides that extra gravitas to a contest to help draw in the casual fan and boost pay-per-view figures—thus earning fighters and promoters even more cash.
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While it's true that video game storytelling has come a long way since these 90s relics, both games recognized that FMV sequences were not the equivalent of a Hollywood production, so instilling them with drama or gravitas was difficult, if not a fool's errand.
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Is "history," as the term is being used in political debate these recent weeks and months, a record of the past that will stand up to objective scrutiny, or is the perceived gravitas of "history" being used as a foil for vile acts and beliefs?
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But as fun as witty sobriquets for nail polishes, lipsticks, and the like can be, creative directors and product namers have long turned to celebrities for inspiration and to evoke a bit more gravitas than a one-and-done Rebellious Red or Bold Blue.
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Feinstein's staunch, leading role on gun control and her service as the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee gave her status as someone with great gravitas that should not be summarily thrown out of office, or even put in a position of electoral vulnerability.
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If you had to pick an analog for Adam Neumann (young, charismatic, visionary, with an outsized view of himself and a delusional view of the firm's role in society), surrounded by gravitas/old white guys, who/what is more fitting than Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos?
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Last month, Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor told Fox News that ABC, NBC and CBS are all "suffering because none of their anchors has the name, the reputation and the gravitas of previous anchors," pointing to Holt as an example of the problem.
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When White House Chief of Staff John Kelly took the podium at the Thursday afternoon press briefing to defend the controversy surrounding President Trump's treatment of a Gold Star family, he was treated with the deference and gravitas this White House doesn't usually receive.
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Germany's Nazi history has been a heavy mantle in the postwar period, worn with particular gravitas since the end of the 216s, when a new generation came of age and began to aggressively question the role their parents had played in the Second World War.
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The 31-year-old actor who plays M'Baku, the Tobagonian-born, American-raised Winston Duke, is a relative unknown (he's had supporting roles on the TV shows "Person of Interest" and "Modern Family") but infuses the role with gravitas, wry charm and incendiary wit.
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Indeed, each one has a name—Everetts has named two after his sons—and this adds a degree of gravitas to the deorbiting process, which can take anywhere from a few days to several months, depending on how much fuel is left in a satellite.
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Spicer held the White House's so-called podium job — a high-pressure duty that carries a certain gravitas and profile, especially after President Bill Clinton's spokesman Mike McCurry began allowing cameras into the daily White House briefings (a decision he later said he regretted).
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Though he loved the French New Wave and the Italian Neorealists — films that had the "gravitas and seriousness of a book" — he was equally drawn to popular entertainments, musicals and comedies on the radio as well as follies and vulgar "end of pier" seaside attractions.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - As India seeks a new central bank chief, many investors are pushing a clear message: the successor to Raghuram Rajan may lack his gravitas, but must defend the Reserve Bank of India's autonomy at a critical juncture in its history.
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But if she continues to risk squandering her chance to overtake Joe Biden because of an unwillingness to be clear about a policy issue voters actually support, the chances are slim she'll be able to convince the public she has the gravitas to be president.
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"Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job," Greg Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard and chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush, said in a blog post.
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Pundits such as myself, who have dismissed Yang as a single issue candidate lacking the top level of gravitas required for the presidency, are now forced to view him as the underdog who actually outlasted many competitors and earned the right to be taken seriously.
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But it gets around this challenge by treating a very silly crime — an unknown vandal spray-painting penises on all of the teachers' cars at a high school — with all of the weight and gravitas you would expect from a more "traditional" true crime series.
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With entire organizations and academic fields already dedicated to the study of political and propaganda posters—the memes of the pre-digital age—it stands to reason that internet memes, already playing a role in shaping history, will eventually be examined with similar gravitas.
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Petraeus presents an intriguing dilemma for Trump, since he is widely respected in Washington over his stewardship of the Iraq war surge, is a consummate political player, a former CIA director and would confer immediate gravitas and credibility on a rudimentary White House foreign policy shop.
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Rhapsody, which Fletcher also directed (after taking over from Bryan Singer) was able to combine a jukebox musical with a celebrity gay man's story, told with just the right amount of gravitas — and queer tragedy — to give it an angle but also keep mainstream audiences comfortable.
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This is a rich landscape that really does have everything you could want from a television show: the right amount of gravitas and trashiness; aptly terrible acting (hi, person playing Kato Kaelin) and what, in Courtney B. Vance's Johnnie Cochran, might be the performance of the year.
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Pitt spends the rest of the movie mostly looking stricken and uncomfortable, as if he'd eaten substandard tinned meat, and you mentally start taking note of other actors who could have been slotted in to provide the same mix of gravitas and testosterone: Clooney, DiCaprio, maybe Damon.
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Carney has angered eurosceptic politicians by warning of the economic risks involved in leaving the EU. If Johnson, who campaigned for Brexit, prioritises the next governor's views on the EU over gravitas or credibility, investors – particularly foreign ones – might be more apt to sell UK assets.
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Clinton does not particularly need to add gravitas or experience to her ticket, but she does need to be able to say with a straight face that her VP is well-qualified to take over in the Oval Office in the event of her death and incapacitation.
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They learn so well that the gravitas funds are more likely than other funds to ultimately fail, though perhaps what is being measured here is not investor learning but that managers without much talent are more likely to try to hide behind confidence-inspiring fund names.
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Not only are the film's surrealistic accretions more over-the-top than those of its predecessors, but Pnini's decision to cast his father —the Israeli actor Avi Pnini — as the buried elderly writer gives the work a conceptual and dramatic gravitas that his earlier films sometimes lack.
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Even the presence of the descriptor "American" in the show's title feels like a subtle gag—a reminder that applying the adjective to almost any noun now imparts instant gravitas, an assurance that whatever is being explored can be slotted into some grand and solemn continuum.
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The title of the documentary (which you can now find on YouTube) refers to both Lewinsky's outfit—she wore a black pantsuit and white button down shirt—and the fact that the film is not in color (lending a patina of gravitas to the whole undertaking).
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Yet what we do need — badly — are comic-book films that have a verité gravitas, that unfold in the real world, so that there's something more dramatic at stake than whether the film in question is going to rack up a billion-and-a-half dollars worldwide.
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With many Democrats still fretting over the electability of Sanders and seeking a safer bet -- desperate to avoid a second term of President Donald Trump at all costs -- Biden still brings the gravitas and experience that voters may feel would make him better at governing than Trump.
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The quartet of soloists consisted of the honey-toned Christina Landshamer, a rising German soprano; the mezzo Sasha Cooke, with her stunning deep register; the clarion tenor Matthew Polenzani, a stalwart of the Metropolitan Opera; and the bass-baritone John Relyea, who delivered Wagnerian amplitude and gravitas.
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Dense, liberally applied harmonies are their time-tested recipe; as the situation demands, the group's four-part vocal theatrics can add firepower to country stompers, like their 2005 single "Boondocks," or bring gravitas to emotional ballads, like their Taylor Swift-penned song "Better Man," from 2016.
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I was giddy with excitement when a woman dressed in a bonnet and apron said, "Good day to you!" as I walked by, and when a stern man in Yorktown demonstrated the loading and firing of a musket with all the gravitas of an 18th-century infantryman.
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He's a well-known enough name — in a movie that clearly wants to build a cast full of well-known names, the better to convince people to watch it — and his presence typically lends instant gravitas to a role that could have been tough to cast.
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But in the week since his side won, several leading Conservatives questioned whether Johnson had the gravitas to run tough talks to mend the broken relationship with the EU. In an article in the Times newspaper, May took aim at Johnson's persona by saying government was not "a game".
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The contrast in size between Chang and the boat and whale lends her scrubbing gesture a touch of the absurd, but, unlike the antic absurdity of her earliest performances (for example, sitting with a swarm of eels tucked into her blouse), this gesture manifests a heavy-hearted gravitas.
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Plucky and precocious, young Diana learns the ways of the Amazons—muscular, humorless women in leather gladiator/cheerleader skirts, brass headbands, and eyebrows plucked into angles of gravitas, who spend their days practicing archery, swordplay, equestrian stunt-riding, and leggy, tanned-glute-revealing, anti-gravity Caipoera air-spins.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S selection of Mr. Biden as his vice president exemplifies the importance of governing experience; Mr. Biden possessed decades of such experience, and the dozen years he served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee contributed gravitas and practical knowledge to Mr. Obama's perceived deficiencies in the area.
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You may look at Goodell and see someone with all the gravitas and candlepower of a checked-out soap opera actor playing the President in one of those sad CGI-sodden Megatarantula Vs. Thunderwolf movies that run overnight on the SyFy Channel, and you would not really be wrong.
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The 2009 Green Movement saw the emergence of prominent personalities, such as former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi and former parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karroubi, possessing both the gravitas and presence to serve as standard bearers for the opposition, and the authority to speak for the protests as a whole.
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At 69, Ms. Berenson is rather old to be playing the teenage heroine's mother, but her elegant gravitas helps a production that otherwise tends to raise the decibel level for effect: I would imagine that Michael Rouse, playing her hyper-Italianate husband, can be heard halfway to Verona.
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Since leaving the administration in April 2018, he's returned to the written word, still determined to find rationality and gravitas in the president's zigzags, though this time more like a hapless Beijing Marxist trying to match Xi Jinping pronouncements to Das Kapital through strategic use of a paper shredder.
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Each of these men's brows have substance and gravitas but it was a picture of Dave Franco that I eventually showed to Nadia: a decision that has more to do with my newfound crush on Alison Brie than what happens to be sprouting out of his pretty face.
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With his band Pedro the Lion, the now 43-year-old frontman's lyrics maturely dealt with knotty issues of faith, political upheaval, love, sex, and crippling doubt, and were performed with the spiritual gravitas of someone going through a crisis of faith, which made Bazan leave Christianity in 2006.
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The video directed by LOUIEKNOWS does a perfect job summarizing wifi's vision, blending trippy visuals with old-school graphics that have been commodified by the SoundCloud generation in a certainly ironic light, but imbued with enough gravitas to give cheesy PhotoShop backgrounds and exaggerated lightning strikes a new definition.
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The artist's subtly layered, printmaking-inflected, collage-informed processes, and his palette of abundant flat blacks cut through, sometimes literally, with detailed motifs or swaths of lush reds, blues, greens, and rather gold-seeming oranges and yellows, come into compositional confluence in an overall sphere of gripping visual gravitas.
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Of course it didn't, as we saw with her successor George W. Bush and his ascendancy to the presidency in the 2000 election, a step in a different direction but no less surprising to those who had seen, up close and personal, his pretty confounding lack of gravitas.
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Instead, the emotional and moral heft of the story resides with its older men: Uncle Hassan, whose role in Iran's tumultuous history has imbued him with a moral gravitas; Mr. Wilkerson, the Army Ranger's father, who fairly glows with "Friday Night Lights"-style grace; and, ultimately, Paul himself.
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I think it's a great company too, but that group… I was hoping the group might come back off of Houston, but the last piece of research I read about Snap-On was a downgrade and it was a very tough one and I thought it had gravitas.
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To take over a show in the shoes of somebody who cemented this profound space in popular culture, political discourse, and satire is incredibly difficult, particularly for someone who's 18 years younger than Stewart, who by virtue of his age and youth alone doesn't have the historical gravitas.
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As each season of The Bachelor draws to a close, a curious gravitas descends as the final two contestants each walk to a flower-strewn altar in real time — background music dropped out, throbbing hearts captured by remote mics — and one or both of them gets dumped on national television.
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It is in VR's ability to tell stories that feel so human that they are remembered by the mind to be "real", create communication platforms that give a new gravitas to "nice to meet you virtually", and social platforms that illicit strong shared emotional responses previously impossible in traditional 2D interfaces.
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We are by now used to the no-holds-barred, facts-be-damned approach of this candidate (he paints this bogusness as truth-telling), but we might've hoped that as the country faces a deadly serious threat, he would summon some gravitas and confront the crisis as a leader should.
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Written by I. Marlene King and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, the coming-of-age tale deals with the fundamentals of late girlhood, including body image, emerging sexuality, and friendship, treating them with the same gravitas as more mature themes — death doesn't get special treatment over the drama of budding breasts.
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He's also looking forward to sharing scenes with the all-star cast filmmaker Ryan Coogler has assembled, including the director's Creed star Michael B. Jordan (Creed) as the villainous Erik Killmonger, "I think with Michael, I feel like he's brought a gravitas to the roles that he's done," said Boseman.
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Stahelski may have gotten his start designing martial-arts fights in movies like The Matrix, but the John Wick films pay homage to noir and European art-house cinema, adding a gravitas and existential dread to myriad scenes of guys punching, kicking, and shooting the hell out of each other.
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"From the Middle East to climate change, women's rights to superpower diplomacy, Jimmy has brought the gravitas of his Presidential office but also the passion of an activist who believes the world can, and must, be changed for the better," Kofi Annan, chair of The Elders, said in a press release.
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After 11 adversarial debates, the two chief antagonists to Donald J. Trump on Thursday night largely abandoned their strategy of brutally attacking him, choosing instead to use their final face-off before next week's round of big Republican primaries to project gravitas and champion conservative positions on trade, jobs and Israel.
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While the sequel's villains — the dangerous-yet-colorful Highwaymen led by two terrifying twins — can stand on their own merit, the gravitas that comes with witnessing the full-blown dumpster fire that is the end of Far Cry 5 really emphasizes how little people are messing around in this universe.
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If all this seems lacking in the gravitas implied by the heritage of its author, who was born in Israel to a family of Yemeni descent and served in the Israeli Army, just try picking up this book without having your preconceived notions prodded into a mess of noisy contradictions.
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It's common for young designers these days to take inspiration from Memphis and Pop, but for Rooms that whimsy is often transformed into sculptural work both sober and substantial: A large bust of Batman is rendered in white plaster that gives the caped crusader the gravitas of a Greek god.
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Of all the comedians who sing, he has the most virtuosic voice, a powerful, nimble instrument that can inject a cover of the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme with an ominous intensity or imbue a ballad to Oprah Winfrey with the kind of gravitas that could make you weep.
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He had tried — and would continue to try — to add auteur to his résumé, partly out of fascination with the power of cinema and partly because he sensed that some of the glamour and gravitas that had belonged to novelists in the '50s was being claimed by filmmakers in the '70s.
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The storm, expected to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday, less than four weeks before statewide elections, presents opportunities and hazards for Mr. Scott and a host of other candidates eager to display competence and gravitas as voters make up their minds and begin casting their ballots.
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Critic's Notebook WASHINGTON — With the unveiling here Monday at the National Portrait Gallery of the official presidential likenesses of Barack Obama and the former first lady, Michelle Obama, this city of myriad monuments gets a couple of new ones, each radiating, in its different way, gravitas (his) and glam (hers).
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For all its prescience, the "Watchmen" comic could never have envisioned a culture in which the top-grossing entertainment products are nearly all based on comic books, superheroes populate nearly every corner of every screen we watch and pulp villains can plausibly be recast with the gravitas of vintage '70s cinema.
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Today, it is the politicians and the prime minister who are terrifyingly confused and inarticulate about the state of the nation, and it is the hereditary princes, with their honesty, their ethic of service, Harry's impish ease and William's gravitas, who are the public figures offering some hope for the future.
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When I saw him recently in his spare office at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, commonly known as Sciences Po, a copy was on the table: The cover is a color portrait of his face against a black background, staring at the viewer with an expression of almost morbid gravitas.
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Jordan's got the boyish charm of Damon, the megawatt smile and daring athleticism of Cruise (there's a couple of running scenes in Just Mercy that rival the famous Tom Cruise run), the intensity of DiCaprio, Pitt's enigmatic sex appeal, and the gravitas of Denzel Washington — without any of the Oscar nominations.
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Mr. Jack said he and the other student, Ruairi Gray, also 22, had been stunned by the attention afforded the pineapple, which he said the two had put on the table in a moment of lighthearted whimsy, slanted slightly to the left to give it a bit more gravitas and flair.
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"She has the gravitas of being the third ranking official in the Department of Justice, but also the subject matter expertise on Section 702 from her time serving on the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board," said Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, who leads the department's Office of Legislative Affairs.
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As a person who held the highest office in the land and handled that role in a manner that earned widespread respect, even from opponents who staunchly disagreed with his ideas, Obama, with his articulate nature, has the gravitas to argue for the fierce urgency of electing a Democratic Congress.
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The same kind of logic dictated the initial decision to hire Kevin Hart as host, which wasn't about finding a good fit for the show's mix of light irreverence and heavy gravitas, and more about casting the most popular stand-up in America, and hoping he'd lure in on-the-fence viewers.
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Bloomberg's campaign will likely do a good job of edifying voters that it's not a mistake to elect a businessperson -- just that Americans elected the wrong one last time -- and Biden's gravitas and re-emergence on that national stage will remind Americans what it's like to have a steady hand guiding the country.
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After all, it wasn't that long ago that he indicated a desire for his daughter Ivanka to have the post, saying she'd be dynamite at the UN. All of Craft's immediate predecessors -- Nikki Haley, Samantha Power and Susan Rice -- came into the job with either impressive government and diplomatic experience or academic gravitas.
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" According to a press release, it will be a "fast-paced one-hour special that looks like CNN with the volume off, but with the volume on is a constant stream of jokes delivered with such extreme deadpan gravitas it'll ruin viewers capacity to watch the real news ever again without laughing.
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And now 43, after nearly three decades in show business (he was 14 when he first went onstage), Mr. Chappelle not only has a new kind of gravitas, but he has also embraced his status as an older comic with mature worries, like schools for his kids and growing old with his wife.
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Mlny Parsonz's soulful, rough-edged voice has always been the band's emotional lodestar, elevating its sprawling, prog-tinged hard rock into unexpected heights—and she flaunts her range on "Plans," as the song's gospel harmonies and measured percussion add gravitas and heart to the smoldering, psyched-out 70s riffs that make up its backbone.
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Rating: 5 / 5 aluminium ingots While this video wasn't a big leap forward over the one promoting the iPhone 4, it did for the first time pair Ive with an emotive, instrumental backing tune, amping up the gravitas of his narration and really driving home Apple's commitment to treating its products like works of art.
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Bookended by presidential speeches, the title track saves a staggering amount of gravitas for the album's final moments; over a sparse acoustic strum and lonesome electric twang, Price sings soft and pained about the darkness that's clouded the US over her lifetime—the Reagan administration selling arms to Iran, the specter of nuclear war, Trump.
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