Sentence examples for talk gravely from inspiring English sources

They talk gravely of many things, but they do not talk very clearly to each other across the divide.

We authors, ma'am - to use the phrase that Disraeli would use with Queen Victoria, who had written a sort of book once - we authors do like to talk gravely about the future of mankind and the novel and the power of the word.

We talk gravely and we mean it when we say "what can we do?" But we rarely peer in.

Few Israelis could miss the hint: this was Ehud Barak, talking gravely behind a flimsy scrim.

This week, French politicians on all sides have been talking gravely about the dangers of Danone, a big French food firm, falling into American hands.

Eliminating the national debt has not been a plank of any Democratic economic program in living memory, and most Democrats who are now talking gravely about its importance have never uttered the words "eliminate the debt" before.

Less reassuringly for supporters, he also talked gravely about the "revolution" continuing without him.

Instead, the Administration seemed overly alarmed by goading from Republicans like John McCain — who talked about "gravely serious breaches of our national security" and wanted not just any old investigation but a special prosecutor — and treated this as a matter of pride.

I realize that we might lack a certain perspective and people might find it foolish that we're talking so gravely about our circumstances when we're so young, but I don't feel particularly young.

Sometimes we see Gore gravely talking on his cell phone — or gravely staring out an airplane window, or gravely tapping away on his laptop in a lonely hotel room — for a little longer than is absolutely necessary.

Some campaigners gravely warned the talks were about to fail, while others criticised the obduracy of participants who refused to budge from pre-set positions.