" 'Mob ties,' Joseph nodded his head to emphasize the gravity of the statement".
She re-emphasized the gravity of the stunt while declaring feminism to be a "mortal sin".
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.
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.
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.
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".
The gravity of this situation is emphasized by a recent projection from the WHO and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), which predicts that India will be the MI capital of the world by 2020.
Sheff emphasizes the vulnerability of adolescents.
