Sentence examples for taking on gravity from inspiring English sources

You're taking on gravity".

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Suddenly the drink took on a strange violet gravity.

The sitting position takes advantage on gravity, on use of lumbar massage, and on an increased pelvic diameter with better fetal alignment to the pelvis, but it may increase the pressure on the sacrum with a major risk of perineal trauma.

He sipped, and his face took on an expression of great gravity.