But as Fiesco, Maria's father, he conveyed grave dignity and moving authority.
Daniel Borowski portrayed Padre Guardiano with grave dignity and a booming, mellifluous voice.
You can see the musicians in impeccable black tie, blending Jazz Age poses of abandon with grave dignity.
But through originals like "Translinear Light" and John Coltrane's "Crescent," the group orients itself around the slow, heavy swing of Coltrane ballads, giving the album a grave dignity.
It is a black symmetrically stylized head of an African woman with an elaborately plaited pyramidal coiffure adorned with various figures and with a facial expression of grave dignity and beauty.
Barbara Flynn – though at one point cruelly enveloped in a dress that looks like a snail shell – is a splendidly creamy Gertrude Michelle Dockeryy brings an unusual grave dignity to her contralto Ophelia.
Resplendent in an opulent red gown trimmed with ribbon and lace and accessorized with two brooches and a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, Sophia is both a breathtaking beauty and a figure of grave dignity (no way you'd guess that she'd had an illegitimate son).
Watch them and be in the awe of the way they solemnly write figures down on their leather notepads and the way they sit in grave dignity as they crunch those numbers in there head.
