as in intentness
a mental state free of jesting or trifling
the hospital waiting room was filled with the kind of gravity that inevitably accompanies worry
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In the first of Trier’s films to operate as a family portrait instead of a more focused individual profile, the Borg house will come to assume the gravity of a dying star that gives meaning to the constellation of people who are pulled ever closer towards its orbit.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
Its images are now iconic: pillars of gas birthing stars, spirals of galactic arms stretching into the void, and clusters of galaxies bending light itself with their gravity.
—Discover Magazine, 20 May 2025
The sense of buoyancy in markets, then, could be a head rush — evoked by the U.S.-China trade deal over the weekend — that could dissipate once the gravity of the economic headwinds takes over again.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 16 May 2025
Cannes veteran Suzu Hirose (Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister) plays young Etsuko with a luminous fragility, while Yoh Yoshida (Desperate Sunflowers) portrays the older version of the character with enigmatic gravity.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
Its images are now iconic: pillars of gas birthing stars, spirals of galactic arms stretching into the void, and clusters of galaxies bending light itself with their gravity.
—Discover Magazine, 20 May 2025
The sense of buoyancy in markets, then, could be a head rush — evoked by the U.S.-China trade deal over the weekend — that could dissipate once the gravity of the economic headwinds takes over again.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 16 May 2025
Cannes veteran Suzu Hirose (Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister) plays young Etsuko with a luminous fragility, while Yoh Yoshida (Desperate Sunflowers) portrays the older version of the character with enigmatic gravity.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
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“Gravity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravity. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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