Sentence examples for emphasize the gravity of from inspiring English sources

" 'Mob ties,' Joseph nodded his head to emphasize the gravity of the statement".

Today it's used mostly to emphasize the gravity of a crime, trading on the term's aura of religious finality.

Robert Kenny, a spokesman for the Health Department, said state officials sought to emphasize the gravity of the safety lapses by the hospital in White Plains, imposing the maximum fine allowed under state law, or $2,000 per safety violation.

The new figures "emphasize the gravity of the situation," says microbiologist David Blehert of the USGS in Madison.

It is not our intent here to recount it, but to emphasize the gravity of this moment in light of it.

"Rawhide Down" newly emphasizes the gravity of the damage inflicted on the president.

She re-emphasized the gravity of the stunt while declaring feminism to be a "mortal sin".

While the others — Gov. Chris Christie, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Reince Priebus — emphasized the gravity of the situation, urging Mr. Trump to express contrition, Mr. Kushner reminded him of what he had built.

Singing "A Love Like Ours," a song first popularized by Barbra Streisand, Ms. Carroll emphasized the gravity of the phrase, "When love like ours arrives/We guard it with our lives," whose words (by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) are not to be taken lightly.

As Semino (2008: 100) observes, the use of the WAR metaphor "tends to dramatize the opposition between different participants in politics," to "emphasize the gravity and urgency of the problem in question, and the seriousness of the effort that is being made to solve it".

She suggested that by taking aerial photographs, which make the "sculptural dimensions of reality" ambiguous, Namuth was trying to emphasize the unreality of the paintings, "that gravity-free, optical space to which Greenberg refers in his descriptions of Pollock's art". But Namuth's photographs went beyond Greenberg, she suggested.