Sentence examples for gravely about from inspiring English sources

Attenborough spoke gravely about their 'ordeal', as though it was me and you having to do it.

Sarah Fielding, for instance, Henry's sister, wrote penetratingly and gravely about friendship in The Adventures of David Simple (1744, with a sequel in 1753).

This week, French politicians on all sides have been talking gravely about the dangers of Danone, a big French food firm, falling into American hands.

(I for one would not have wanted to miss Framlingham's Sheeran sing gravely about street life in their duet Dark Times).

Wordsworth had no patience with those "who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope-dancing, or Frontiniac or Sherry".

How this carriage affects the characters around her, too: because fiction does not amount to much if it is just one character standing in a stairwell, pondering gravely about past events.

It's the safety of trans students, as well as transgender people everywhere, that we should be gravely concerned about, not the reverse.

While quick to plug the benefits of being test-optional, he acknowledges, "This is a problem that we are gravely concerned about".

Pinsky said buprenorphine "has its use" in the short-term treatment of opioid addiction but cautions that "it's the enthusiasm and the skill with which we apply the treatment that I'm gravely concerned about".

"I've spoken with many state and local leaders, a number of them here today, who care very much about preserving our land and who are gravely concerned about this massive federal land grab.

As he rightly says, it is astonishing that the Tories and Ukip, which claim to be gravely concerned about British sovereignty, have only positive things to say about TTIP.