Pucci's villainy, while ridiculous, also supplies "Casanova" with a few necessary notes of gravity, since there is nothing funny about religious authority that punishes the pursuit of pleasure with torture and death.
Shortly afterward, Adams retreated to her tabloid-papered inner sanctum and, when asked if she considered herself a spiritual person, struck a note of uncharacteristic gravity.
The New Yorker reporter-poet Joseph Mitchell, for instance, searching for a plain style, often eliminated the normal contractions we use in English, so that every "It's" became an "It is" and every "He's" a "He is," and suddenly a note of somber gravity exuded from his most basic declarative sentences.
There's no way to quantify such things of course or, rather, there are ways, but none of them is convincing, stylometrics seeming about as reliable as lie-detector tests but, at least to one who has pushed through Proust twice in Moncrieff's version and once, more laboriously, in French, it can often seem that Moncrieff's note of winsome gravity is more Jamesian than Proustian.
There's no way to quantify such things of course — or, rather, there are ways, but none of them is convincing, stylometrics seeming about as reliable as lie-detector tests — but, at least to one who has pushed through Proust twice in Moncrieff's version and once, more laboriously, in French, it can often seem that Moncrieff's note of winsome gravity is more Jamesian than Proustian.
Note that the center of gravity of the peaks of the symmetrical ( 10overline{1}1 ), ( 20overline{2}1 ), ( 20overline{2}2 ), and ( 30overline{3}2 ) reflections was observed to be located approximately on a vertical line in the RSMs.
Rice said the region was becoming "the world's political and economic center of gravity," and noted that the 10 nations collectively were the fourth-biggest U.S. export market — including $11 billion in goods from California.
Plibersek also affirmed the need to "enmesh ourselves" and build institutions in the Indo-Pacific, noting the world's "economic centre of gravity is moving to our region".
Pattinson noted that maintaining one's center of gravity is difficult when doing wire work "because you have to really fight against it as well as letting it do what it needs to do".
Note that the yellow line plots the movement of the centre of gravity of the GP.
