graver

Graver is the author of three previous novels: Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling.

But the wiser voices in the movement know that, now, they face much graver problems than semantics.

And notwithstanding the emerging tragedy in Syria, the graver regional threat remains Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

We can all agree, however, that the press freedom situation in Turkey is grave and getting graver.

With the nation facing a graver crisis than Lincoln was so far willing to admit, his whiskers gave him…gravitas.

Those of a more serious turn are apt to show a curious preference for the graver aspects of things.

Ethel sought her room, with graver, deeper thoughts of life than she had carried upstairs.

He fancied this would not have happened without her connivance, and she seemed graver than usual when he stood by her chair.

Mr Bellingham looked graver than he had done while witnessing Ruth's passionate emotion in her mother's room.

Under the latter he was deprived of his preferment in Oxford, and under a harsher rule might have incurred yet graver penalties.