He sipped, and his face took on an expression of great gravity.
Now, he said, "On the issues of greatest gravity and historical importance — the war against global jihadism and the liberation of Iraq — I am thrilled to be on the same side of the divide as Christopher".
The question of prediction becomes one of great gravity when watching footage like that, especially when the upshot is that time on a human scale and time on a geological scale remain inevitably out of step with each other.
The boy's Indian nanny holds him with the affection and assurance that appears to be coded into the DNA of women in this part of the world, but the anxiety etched on her features suggests that what has disturbed the boy is of far greater gravity than an interrupted nap or an attack of colic.
Considered by the Church to be of an even greater gravity is the murder of family members, including "infanticide, fratricide, patricide, the murder of a spouse and procured abortion".
"Where the curvature of space-time is greater, gravity is stronger," Gair explains.
Smaller planets like ours have lost the light elements in their atmospheres, such as hydrogen and helium, but the greater gravity of 55 Cancri e has held onto them.
In it Archimedes determines the different positions of stability that a right paraboloid of revolution assumes when floating in a fluid of greater specific gravity, according to geometric and hydrostatic variations.
Of course, one could say as much about, oh, love and death and other experiences of the greatest gravity, and the banalization of violence through endless and numbingly ordinary cinematic depictions is a more grievous and endemic societal ill.
This use of the Holocaust not only gives the appearance of establishing one's credentials as a person of great moral gravity; it also stymies criticism.
