Sentence examples for gravity and purpose from inspiring English sources

Seriousness has always been one of Mr. Scott's strengths as a director, but when his material has skewed too light, too frivolous, the gravity and purpose etched into each one of his meticulous, beautiful images have also helped sink films.

The televised debates among the three men competing to run the country after next week's election were meant to provide a corrective to that, replacing the histrionics with gravity and purpose.

The closest the platform comes to using the I-word is this: "And, at a time when the nation felt betrayed by misconduct in high office, the Republican Congress responded with gravity and high purpose.

At times, the references are opaque: In a section titled, "Government for the People," the draft is apparently referring to the impeachment of Mr. Clinton when it declares: "At a time when the nation felt betrayed by misconduct in high office, the Republican Congress responded with gravity and high purpose.

There's a hint of old-fashioned gravity and seriousness of purpose to "Mummenschanz".

His mission was named Principia after Sir Isaac Newton's landmark work describing the laws of motion and gravity, and its main purpose was to contribute to scientific knowledge by conducting experiments in zero gravity.

The images, with their dim lighting and their stolidity, seemingly dictate and reinforce a style of performance that seems designed to let its fine actors display, above all, their gravity and earnestness of purpose.

Ms. Jolie's contribution is to endow the silliness with a gravity and clarity of purpose that makes you care, for a scant hour and a half, who Salt is, what she does and where she stands.

The law under which Spindler was charged speaks to statements "so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety... .. It's not obvious that Spindler's comment card qualifies.

All three of these documents share a gravity of purpose and achievement, each breaking new ground in order to attain the previously unthinkable.

These albums don't sound like tossed-off byproducts of live performance; each has an arc, a sense of gravity and a suggestion of higher purpose.