Sentence examples for grave character from inspiring English sources

It isn't easy to reconcile the plucky but relatively one-dimensional (and very British-seeming) young Eva with the world-weary, grave character played by Ms. Rampling, who is effortlessly believable as a Russian émigré with a dark past — it's as if Jennifer Garner grew up to be Marlene Dietrich.

Marshall declared: The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products — principally from America — are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.

In the narrative promulgated by the panjandrums of the Washington commentariat, this would involve publicly acknowledging his grave character flaws, disassembling the tight-knit circle of aides that surrounds him, inviting over some Capitol Hill bigwigs (and possibly some media bigwigs) for whiskey-and-poker evenings, and generally being less of an arrogant, aloof jerk.

The possibilities for exemptions have been reduced and are only granted to applicants who can document that they suffer from 'a physical or mental illness of a very grave character' (Section 24).

The meaning of the terms "extremely grave character" and "justifiable sense of being seriously wronged" used in the second form is currently unclear.

In this area of the criminal law the defense of "loss of control" can be raised against the charge of murder where a "qualifying trigger," is present, namely where "circumstances of an extremely grave character" and a "justifiable sense of being seriously wronged" are seen to exist by a jury.

Both sonatas are predominantly grave in character; that for violin is dedicated to the memory of Federico García Lorca.

Like voices from beyond the grave, the characters' sorrow often has an attenuated, slightly disembodied quality.

Jean Anouilh, in "Poor Bitos," a now forgotten play from the nineteen-fifties, tried to draw the character: grave, charmless, touchy, proud, easily mocked, and just as easily, and murderously, offended.

It should keep the old prig turning in his grave," a reference to Maugham's view that Lucky Jim's characters were illustrative of the country's moral decline.

There is a sense in which all period or historical fiction is telling ghost stories, populating the reader's present with voices from beyond the grave, calling up characters into a time that isn't theirs.