Thegravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this country are involved.
1990 E.E.O.C. v. University of Detroit, 904 F.2d 331
Since I believe that abortion is absolutely wrong I must choose the course that minimizes the support of it. Thegravity of this issue is so great that I must consider my job expendable.
2011 September 3, Daniel Indiviglio, “August's Big Reversal for Manufacturing and Retail Jobs”, inThe Atlantic[2]:
Could the month's poor performance in these two sectors reveal the truegravity of the labor market's woes?
(physics) The phenomenon that, on earth, objects haveweight; the similar phenomenon on other celestial bodies such as the moon.
1950 January, Howard Hayes, “You and Gravity”, inThe Atlantic[3]:
Do you know thatgravity is pulling at you, tugging at you, trying to drag you down, from the moment you awake in the morning till you tumble into bed at night?
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, inThe Guardian Weekly[4], volume188, number26, page36:
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape thegravity of this world or to get a preview of the next[…].
(loosely, see usage notes)Gravitation, the universal force exercised by two bodies on each other by virtue of theirmasses.
(physics) A law or laws ofgravitation: any theory which attempts to account for the phenomena of weight and/or the mutual attraction of massive objects (Aristotelian gravity,Newtonian gravity).
2012 January, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, inAmerican Scientist[5], volume100, number 1, archived fromthe original on26 January 2012, page86:
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantumgravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
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