In color, with his pale face, Ruth looks gravely ill.
"Should you fall overboard," Bronco says gravely, "face downstream and pull your knees into your chest so your feet, not your head, push off the rocks".
I never afterward saw a happier look on my father's face as the gravely satisfied frown of approval he gave to that bicycle, tilted on its kickstand, fully assembled by someone who must've known about our problems.
I wanted to visit kids in hospitals, but others before me have realized how good it feels and what good it does to bring a smile to the face of a gravely ill child.
But one had only to look over at the gravely composed face of the Democratic challenger, and hear his sonorous voice explain the business tax credit in his health-care plan, to realize just how temperamentally conservative Kerry is.
While other issues have exacerbated the turmoil at Monte dei Paschi's – including a poorly judged €9bn acquisition – the primary reason the bank is in trouble is because it doled out billions of euros in loans to small businesses at a time when the scale of the recession facing Italy was gravely underestimated.
Along with yearning, there is a palpable sense of loneliness running through "longing two," most hauntingly captured by Ms. Uchizono, whose face, whenever exposed, is gravely ancient.
Until, that is, the end, when the jokes stop, and the Playwright faces the audience and gravely discusses the meaning of the play.
Until, that is, the end, when the jokes stop and Mr. Harper faces the audience and gravely discusses the meaning of the play.
There's something gently comical about the contrast between the Egyptians' gravely masculine faces and the prettiness of those blue costumes, especially when they're lined up like French schoolgirls (or ducklings).
