Word: graveness
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Eady said the effect of diesel fuels on public health--especially on children and the elderly--is a particularly grave concern...
...certain Congressmen. But now that the trial is over and the verdict is in, our nation's bout with Sexual McCarthyism has come to a close and should stay that way. Far too much effort has been devoted to cigars, blue dresses and defining the word "is" Finally more grave issues such as NATO's attacks on Serbia and our three prisoners of war have dominated headlines, news and conversations. Enough is enough...
Henry Luce has to be in China by now, so sonic has been his grave-spin at the fawning, serious-faced, totally preposterous Monica Lewinsky issue. You give truth to the notion that everything is for sale in America. BOB INGRAM Narberth...
This would be a nightmarish task, of course, and a very grave international precedent. However, at this stage of Europe's worst crisis in the whole decade, all we may be left with is a choice of nightmares...
...gave him the best possible qualification for painting the great and the good. He simply took them at their own valuation, producing vivid epitomes of social standing as he did so. His portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, for instance, remains the definitive image of the late-Victorian equestrian male: superbly grave and self-contained, tall as a tree, and yet with a touch of carelessness in the flare of his buff hunting waistcoat and the dashing arabesque of paint with which, in a single loaded stroke, Sargent conveyed the fold of his breeches--a gesture as assured...