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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Badger is a retired schoolmaster, rather short on gravitas .
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First, he needs more gravitas .
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He has a gravitas that has not just been put on like a flashy waistcoat, nor indeed a Garrick Club tie.
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He provides the intellectual thrust and gravitas of the arguments of those who oppose monetary and political union.
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His gravitas , offset with a flickering irony, gives the production a strong moral centre.
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The reined-in impatience which so often emanated from Ian was absent, Theodora's gravitas mitigated and Julia's social nervousness sedated.