Your self-created gravitas is crushing your giant ego, which is crushing your sense of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smug Ugly - Anil Dash] Reference

She attempts to gain gravitas and street cred from other people, like family members in the military.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Darcy Burner's 1st Ad] Reference

Whenever I think of Ivory the word gravitas comes to mind-a word I'm not used to associating with romance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary] Reference

The combination of the exertion and trying to present the appropriate gravitas is proving too much for the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qana - the director's cut] Reference

I think Clinton would bring a certain gravitas as a former President that no other candidate could possible bring to thetable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Short List] Reference

I think Clinton would bring a certain gravitas as a former President that no other candidate could possible bring to the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Short List] Reference

TOM MARR, WCBM IN BALTIMORE: Well, he definitely, Lou, needs someone -- remember when the word gravitas was in the last election?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2008] Reference

Michael Rennie brought a certain gravitas to the role of Klaatu, while Keannu is quite likely the most wooden actor of the last 20 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [SciFi Cinema] Reference

I think more it is about cheapening Obama's brand - creating something about Obama that is the opposite of "gravitas" - frivolity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain Web Ad: "Hot Chicks Dig Obama"] Reference

Unfortunately the episode didn't add to his gravitas, which is in short supply. rss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

But James’s book imparted a certain gravitas to an otherwise ordinary collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enthusiast] Reference

There is a certain gravitas to a book that seems to change people’s impression of what I’m doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artisan cheese and blogs-to-books] Reference

Oh sure, there were lots of colorful dialogue and zany plots, but I felt the series was sorely lacking in gravitas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six by 6 | Six comics that made us cry | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

Hagaddah (etched in gravitas, of course).    From Wordnik.com.  [April 20th, 2008] Reference

Someone please bring back the "gravitas" meme from 2000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack Obama appears -- simultaneously -- on Olbermann and O'Reilly and I have some advice for Obama.] Reference

Some pundits said Biden brought "gravitas" to the ticket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The F-Team] Reference

Why, because his deep voice gives him that old "gravitas".    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Hillary Way Ahead ��� And More People Think She'll Win] Reference

I think your word "gravitas" or rather, the early Greek's word is the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The big bang as mythology] Reference

Yet "gravitas" is a hard word to apply to someone with such a penchant for silly utterances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weisberg Fallacy] Reference

Pretty big scoop for CBS, whether or not it's got the "gravitas" chops the critics are slavering for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eat The Press | The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric — and SURI! | The Huffington Post] Reference

They are aware of their little moment in -- in history, and so there is -- there is a kind of gravitas there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining] Reference

Or mention their own past "Series On Race" to lend "gravitas" to what is essentially this reporter's goofy opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nagourney Responds: We Are "Comfortable" With Our Story, Though Headline Was Imperfect] Reference

SERAFIN: I think also people said Ellen didn ` t have the kind of gravitas, really, that Simon has in the music world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010] Reference

Couric's critics point to exchanges like that as proof that she doesn't have the "gravitas" to be a network-news anchor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Katie Factor] Reference

Howard Fineman would have been one of the first talking heads to start wondering whether Obama can demonstrate "gravitas".    From Wordnik.com.  [Whoops! GOPers Attack Obama For Flying In Aircraft He Criticized -- But McCain Did Same!] Reference

TV NEWS ANCHOR: No! HAMMER: Yeah, well the word that came up -- go ahead, Terry, because the word that came up a lot was "gravitas".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007] Reference

The "gravitas" of a Powell endorsement would further reveal the depths to which McCain has sunk in his attempts to obfuscate the issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retired Admiral Hits Back At McCain's Attack On Obama As "Dangerous"] Reference

MALVEAUX (on-camera): The hope is Kennedy's endorsement will give Obama that kind of gravitas he needs with the Democratic establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2008] Reference

I can't wait to hear what all of DC pundits have to say about her "gravitas" and ability to take over, should something happen to McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Is Sarah Palin?] Reference

There's a huge difference between "gravitas" and this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Even Reagan in '76 was seen as' inexperienced - but with 'gravitas'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

Weighty matters such as these deserve that kind of gravitas, I'm sure you'll agree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newspaper Tree] Reference

Ever agendized, the media and the left have attached a kind of gravitas to this line of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sigmund, Carl and Alfred] Reference

Biden's "gravitas" is derived almost entirely from the fact that he can lie with absolute passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference