Sentence examples for take on gravity from inspiring English sources

There are slow folk strums that take on gravity as they go, blues riffs fringed in distortion, and stately lead-guitar melodies that sound as if they were hewn from Appalachian granite.

You're taking on gravity".

But these dueling court cases over politicians' images take on surprising gravity when set against yet a third photograph: François Hollande's official portrait as president of France.

Theirs is a world of conventions and longstanding etiquette, where debates over skin-baring gowns or different bouquet shades take on the gravity of a United Nations peace conference.

With eight police officers hospitalised, those questions take on even more gravity.

Tattooing, which has gone in a decade from taboo to fad to yawnsville, has taken on new gravity since Sept. 11.

Seventy competitors, powered solely by gravity's force, turned out for the races at Alexandra Palace on July 14 to take on the tricky 460-yard hill course, WNCT reports.

Thereafter, gravity comes into play, the abdominal muscles relax, and the muscles of the back then take on the strain.

As comedy has emerged as an essential art form, with its strongest voices looked to as formidable social critics, the whole enterprise has taken on an earnest gravity that is often at odds with its original purpose — laughter.

This time the act seemed to take on an unusual gravity, as if on Jupiter, where his body weight was increased and the desire pressed down by lethargy and inertia.

But by the end -- when you are back at spring, with a young acolyte and a gray-haired master -- the film takes on the heft and gravity of one of the smooth stone Buddhas that decorate the old monk's house.