gravitas

1 Often it makes elder statesmen release records such as Johnny Cash's American Recordings suite – a final corpus of work that retroactively imparts all that came before with more gravitas.

2 But Rio de Janeiro’s sambaing shindig uniquely combined gravitas with gravity-defying bounce. 

3 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.

4 “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.

5 'This is a serious year,' he told employees, explaining how similar attire somehow gave prep-school students more gravitas.

他对员工说，今年是严肃的一年，并解释类似的装扮也能让大学预科生看上去更加庄重些。

6 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.

7 a book of extraordinary gravitas

一本非常严肃的书

8 The parents and grandparents in So’s “Afterparties,” at least, have a minimum of gravitas.

9 He has just the right combination of gravitas and human warmth, just the right level of floppy-haired handsomeness to appear every bit as lovable and admirable as the man on the page.

10 But the ideas that animate the action, or at least try to lend it some gravitas, remain the same.

11 The gravitas of this place also exerts a pull on politicians who want to lay claim to its emotional power and aspirational symbolism.

12 Directors such as David Lynch and Martin Scorsese have utilised the gravitas, even menace, Von Sydow brings to the screen in, respectively, Dune and Shutter Island.

13 The guffaws and gravitas aren't easily fused, and the final resolution feels more convenient than earned, Brian’s outcome a missed opportunity for an explosive rejoinder.

14 He has raised the movie’s gravitas by promoting it as a poignant depiction of mental illness, not the edgy-soapy rom-com that $100 million worth of moviegoers thought they were paying to see.

15 The word gravitas could never come into play when referring to any of Fox's pundits, but calling Watters a lightweight provocateur compared to his predecessor is a kindness.

16 By providing a historical and literary perspective on the single woman, she reclaims the word “spinster” and brings dignity and gravitas to a subject that is often reduced to gags about drunk-dialing and shoe-shopping.

17 Actors like Braugher, who died on Monday, are often said to have “gravitas.”

18 As Orlando, Duke of Oxford and the spy agency’s founder, Fiennes might read more cuddly than studly, but he lends a surprising gravitas to this flibbertigibbet feature.

19 Oscar-winning knight Anthony Hopkins lends gravitas as father/big boss Odin.

奥斯卡得主安东尼·霍普金斯扮演形象庄严的父神和主神奥丁。

20 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.

1 庄重

heavy serious grave solemn steady-going gravity dignity decency solemnity stateliness portliness graveness solemnness

2 严肃

heavy serious square severe grave stern sober Earnest solemn magisterial oracular funereal unmirthful gravely sternly gravity severity austerity rigidity sobriety solemnity strictness staidness graveness austereness solemnness solemnize straight meaningful grim heavy-duty sedate austere seriously seriousness for real in earnest good sage elevated weighty sobering somber no-nonsense demure smileless sobersided soberly reserve

3 庄严

sacred majestic solemn regal majestically regally majesty solemnity fine royal grand grave magnificent gravity dignity solemnize in state dignified august