How To Use Weighty In A Sentence

It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
The man was never as much of a sucker for a hook as Elton John was, but throughout 'The Soul Cages', Sting defiantly resists hummability as if a mere catchy pop chorus were too frivolous for such weighty content. The Soul Cages
There were weighty arguments against this theory, in particular the fact that people with great muscular strength and a welldeveloped panniculus adiposus were often attacked by the disease; and also that European crews, on a diet containing sufficient protein and fat, were not immune, even when they were given virtually no rice at all. Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
Instead, there is always freshness and a delight in storytelling all too often absent from weighty academic history.

It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard Waverley
For the past couple of years, the appearance of Christmas lights and festive decorations has heralded the arrival of a weighty travel anthology.
Tureck gives us real dreams not only in weighty sarabande, but also in the so-called ‘lighter’ dances of the allemande, corrente, and gigue.
We retired to promises of clear skies the next day, in spite of the weighty cloud cover. Times, Sunday Times
It jars a little at first, but gives the film an intimacy that belies the weighty subject matter. Times, Sunday Times
All day, there are thoughts both weighty and light dancing through my head.
However, the principals' lyric voices are not, on the face of it, weighty enough for the roles of Leonora and Manrico.
But while these weighty colloquia abounded, Saltz confided a bombshell. ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial
And they always like a respectful hush when they are considering weighty matters. The Sun
It also has the weighty responsibility of inhibiting the conversion of body fat back into glucose for the body to burn (a hangover from our feast-or-famine cave days).
It jars a little at first, but gives the film an intimacy that belies the weighty subject matter. Times, Sunday Times
It jars a little at first but gives the film an immediacy and intimacy that belies the weighty subject matter. Times, Sunday Times
It has become a truism to say that the home of weighty subjects in fiction is often young adult books. Times, Sunday Times
He was edgy, picking away at his arm, not making eye contact and appeared to have weighty matters on his mind. The Sun
Here you get a weighty complement of storyboards, production design drawings, and photographs.
Similarly the Buddha taught that human individuals are not to be seen as isolated from each other, but as conjoined to each other in a weighty and consequential relationship.
I don't want to carry this bag around all afternoon - it's quite weighty.
All weighty matters, in their way. Times, Sunday Times
And they always like a respectful hush when they are considering weighty matters. The Sun
Creating a massive weighty object that not only flies, but hovers and takes off vertically is an amazing innovation, a marvel of modern engineering.
Nonetheless, it is impossible to escape the sense that this fable is indeed about something weighty. Times, Sunday Times
The shelves are stacked with showbiz autobiographies, including her own weighty tome. The Sun
The Conservative leader hopes the weighty tomes will improve their political brains. The Sun
On the contrary, it is to be considered that, without his consent having ever been asked, a man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. Can anybody ever consent to the State?
a weighty load
He never truly liked a heavy meal nor anything that was either too rich or weighty.
We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis.
In an intense ritualist dance, the actors dressed in fantastic and weighty costumes are possessed by the Hindu deities they are incarnating. Everyday Devotions
It jars a little at first, but gives the film an intimacy that belies the weighty subject matter. Times, Sunday Times
His silences often precede a weighty thought though I doubt the rattling in his head ever quiets.
She used texturizing shears to avoid blunt, weighty ends, and a ceramic flat iron to straighten and separate.
However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.” Fielding
With increasingly weighty school bags and heavy workload after school, very little free time is left for the kids to enjoy their childhoods.
A more weighty tripod will feel more secure and give smoother, more fluid use.
When we say that the blood circulates, that the air is weighty, that the rays of the sun are a bundle of seven refrangible rays, it follows not that we are of the sect of Harvey, of Torricelli, or of A Philosophical Dictionary
There are the serious programmes, where weighty professors talk straight to camera and pronounce their conventional view of great kings and queens.
Layers of moss and decay give a funereal quality to this weighty hall.
It is significant that this weighty information is not revealed to the reader.
Secondly, fly not at every pretty girl, like a merlin at a thrush — you will not always win a gold chain for your labour — and, by the way, here I return to you your fanfarona — keep it close, it is weighty, and may benefit you at a pinch more ways than one. The Abbot
That seasonal issue of luggage allowance has raised its weighty head. Times, Sunday Times
Surely such weighty matters merit a higher level of debate?
In verses 31 and 32 weighty warning and dehortation follow, based in part on the preceding picture. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
And they always like a respectful hush when they are considering weighty matters. The Sun
Canton tepoy holds my _aquarium_, and another, beside the most frequented of the lounges, the last number of the most weighty of North The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
All weighty matters, in their way. Times, Sunday Times
Simon lifted a weighty volume from the shelf.
Surely such weighty matters merit a higher level of debate?
Country people are prone to "argufying" -- the greater and more weighty the question, the more ready are the bucolic Solons to engage with it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
One of the reasons his career feels so weighty is because of the momentous history it spans. Times, Sunday Times
There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
I've seen extreme examples of both viewpoints on this weighty matter. Times, Sunday Times
If the grown man at times takes an in* terest in the amusements and sports of the child, and mixes in his pastimes for completely anbending his mind, that is no dishonour to him: but if he do so with manly earnestness, treat in« significant objects as weighty concerns, and re« solves in one and the same view to support the character of the child and the man, will that re - dound to his honour? Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis.
The theological concepts contained in these phrases are weighty ones indeed and have been the subject of fervent discussion for centuries.
We drew from the river shining blue perch heavier than the fattest man in our company, and there were huge catfish, with barbellate whiskers as long as my arm, that were too strong and weighty to be captured in the nets. River God
But the absence of weighty matter in no way diminishes the music's brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
We retired to promises of clear skies the next day, in spite of the weighty cloud cover. Times, Sunday Times
The atmosphere is relaxed and cosy, ideal for a quiet conversation on weighty world matters or passing trivialities.
Only the ceaseless exercise of power, especially by the weighty “great powers,” might hold contentious states in tenuous equilibrium. What Would Wilson Do?
Impossible not to recall the weighty judgment of one of Stevenson's characters upon the Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
With an "Ah. Here you are," she dropped her trumpet case onto the floor along with a weighty rucksack, and she went to the cooker where Alfie the family's Alsatian mix was having alengthy post-party lie in on his blanket. A Traitor to Memory
Pountsin-hia (thus he was called) obtained for himself a mandarinship of the fifth rank; for his son John he secured even more, for Father Schall regularly adopted him as his grandson, and the emperor Shun-chi granted many weighty favours to this "adopted grandson" of the missionary whom he loved. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Judges expect a Clydesdale to look handsome, weighty and powerful, but with a gaiety of carriage and outlook, so that the impression is given of quality and weight, rather than grossness and bulk.
It is feather-light when parking but weighty and secure at speed.
It is in the nature of sport that all these weighty issues will recede if the sport takes wing. Times, Sunday Times
Behind them trails the Jumbo Queen, feted by her weighty ladies-in-waiting, waving gaily at the crowd.
At times he half-rose from his chair, and fell vacuously into it again; or he chuckled in the face of weighty, severely-worded instructions; tapped his chest, stretched his arms, yawned, and in short behaved so singularly that Richard observed it, and said: "On my soul, I don't think you know a word I'm saying. Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 4
For this is a play and a world where weighty issues are handled lightly. Times, Sunday Times
It is a weighty tome which is stimulating and challenging to read but is, in the end, disappointing.
That soul cannot perish, nor that concern fall to the ground, though ever so weighty, that is by faith hung upon Christ. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Some less weighty works are also out of favour. Times, Sunday Times
The effect was to vividly convey the weighty consequences of industrial and civilizational decline on the generations to come. Smithsonian
All this, surely, is the wrong way to approach so weighty an issue. Times, Sunday Times
They are often populated by solitary horses which simultaneously transmit ghostliness and, conversely, surprising weighty presence.
a weighty package
I don't want to carry this bag around all afternoon - it's quite weighty.
All this, surely, is the wrong way to approach so weighty an issue. Times, Sunday Times
Importantly, however, the report gave weighty endorsement to the principle of inner, intermediate, and outer ring roads.
‘Many people think a submission has to be a weighty document written in legalese,’ said Metiria.
Here also are found the insignificant lightness of the pebble and the mighty lightness of the planet; while between them range the weighty masses, superior to the petty ponderability of the one, and unequal to the firmamental float of the other. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
Would his superiors be angry with him if they found he had made so weighty a decision in their absence?
There are no weighty issues to ponder when the credits roll.
It feels like it's an incredibly weighty decision, that you can make a huge mistake.
Yes the furnishings are rustic and weighty but there's no tequila to be had as you can only drink wine and beer here.
At this moment, that which fills my mind is not eloquent words of glory and exaltation, but rather, weighty thoughts of bigger responsibility, greater humility, and deeper self-reflection.
Here was a weighty subject which, if she could but lay hold of it, would certainly keep her mind steady. Middlemarch
In recent conversations, people have asked what weighty issues church staff members bear. Christianity Today
Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it! The Silver Spoon
The natural expectation, too, of Colonel Godby's move towards me cramped my manœuvres, for had I swerved from the line on which I expected his co-operation, his force would have been compromised and in the power of the enemy's weighty attack. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
As the titles suggest, weighty topics are dealt with.
So, if you're looking for a weighty tome for a Christmas present, to block a draught or to belabour rival fans, you'll want to enter the competition.
There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
Its production is exquisite and warm, and its songs both catchy and weighty. Christianity Today
There are some hefty themes for what proves to be a weighty, worthy, serious-minded film.
In that effort her approach was weighty and dark, probing and technically assured.
Several of our intrepid heroes are forced to make some rather weighty decisions.
It is one of the very few books to deal with the weighty issue of science versus religion.
To all these and other equally weighty questions, I had no obvious answers yet.
At least today's timber frame builders can use a crane to haul the weighty beams into place.
Enjoy it now, or put it away for more weighty, toasty scents and flavours to emerge. Times, Sunday Times
The weighty tannic attack of this Cru of Beaujolais is a perfect foil for a fry, while the smoother, fruity wash gives it a light, balanced feel.
None of these scenes and extensions would have added anything weighty to the final cut of the film.
For years Irish politics dealt with weighty issues such as unemployment, closing the poverty gap and education for all.
For all the bleating of the strident that this makes for "moral relativism" or, in the weighty but sadly empty words of Stephen Harper, "nihilism" - nothing turns on it. Gen X at 40
There comes a point in every festival where I start yearning for something pure and weighty - not to mention the more comfy seats of the International Festival venues.
The Ship is almost compleated, and ready to come out of Dock, as she was only spiked and treeniled [treenail]; and to take in a load of Salt which is a weighty loading I thought propper to butt boalt her: I have used every Endevour to obtain Freight some way of other, but fruteless. Collections
Why pay £20 to lug around a weighty tome when you can copy the bits you need for free?
It jars a little at first but gives the film an immediacy and intimacy that belies the weighty subject matter. Times, Sunday Times
In the early days of 1914-15, these newspapers would have long and weighty editorials which called forth longer and weightier letters from "veritas" and "old subscriber. Private Peat
After 1783 he turned to less weighty genres aimed at the amateur solo player, producing keyboard sonatas, sonatinas, and capriccios, programme works, and towards the end of his life some contrapuntal teaching pieces.
Christ Jesus, who broaches false doctrines and propagates them to the corrupting of the faith in weighty and momentous points, and breaks the peace of the church about them, after due means used to reclaim him, must be rejected. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
I hope the weight of that shrowd held up by the likes of the Warners, the Lugars, and the Powells prove so weighty, that they are unable to hold up the shrowd of hypocrosy, and finally shout to the world, enough is enough, and speak up. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | GOP Senator Warner "Reconsidering" Support For Webb Troop Bill
He likes to feel the heft of a weighty woman perching on his lap.
You are taken more seriously because you have got a fairly weighty qualification behind you.
As we zippered our coats and said our goodbyes, every gesture felt extra weighty.
Nearly every song on A Treasury is a show-stopper, and the track selection is fine, spotlighting Drake's weighty insights and limning the various complexions of his character.
It may seem withal a weighty cause of sort – a fey pause in tall analysis, a “what brought it to this” bleep in unilinear thinking, a weak, spur I Cannot Imagine Purity
For this is a play and a world where weighty issues are handled lightly. Times, Sunday Times
Unusually perhaps for such an adhesive read, this is not exactly a thriller, rather a thrillingly evocative recreation of a few months in 1940, when the skies seemed dark and weighty with the country's future.
I imagine that most of those people had never seen a film that dealt in such weighty matters,.
The topic of conversation then moved onto the less weighty issue of the day's soccer results.
Well, away they go now out of Town: But, uds lid, what a weighty trunk they send the Porter with to the Carriers! The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
Hicks's subjects - people, animals and a chthonic hybrid of the two - are classical, weighty and strong, and she has a deft touch with her materials.
But they feel weighty, like heavy space. Times, Sunday Times
The paint mass is weighty and roughly textured, but the visual effect is minimalist.
But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material as to be considerably more weighty than air, and to descend with precipitation, is The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
Marks appear weighty and assertive if driven on to the canvas with a painting knife.
The precise measure of a kilogram is a weighty matter to some people. Web Teacher › The Kilogram: Just a Little Off
The poet can't therefore presume to condescend to him, because he and his peers have guarded the very bourgeois freedoms that enable his son to be a weighty thinker.
Not that such weighty matters have been openly discussed. Times, Sunday Times
Here was a weighty subject which, if she could but lay hold of it, would certainly keep her mind steady. Middlemarch
We retired to promises of clear skies the next day, in spite of the weighty cloud cover. Times, Sunday Times
Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. The Dolliver Romance
He was fond of saying that his name rhymed with “weighty,” not “Wheaties.” STAR
[85] Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions; of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
But the weighty haul may have proved too much for the raiders.
[363] If things are to be scanned so micrologically, what weighty inferences might not be drawn from Mr. Masson's invariably printing Among My Books Second Series
In recent conversations, people have asked what weighty issues church staff members bear. Christianity Today
And to say the truth, remembering that Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
The air was damp now; quiet yet weighty: full-bellied with the snarl of speeding cars in the distance. BEHINDLINGS
the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
Businesses rarely rely exclusively on quantitative research to make weighty marketing decisions.
Where do you stand on the weighty issue of scales? Times, Sunday Times
He was edgy, picking away at his arm, not making eye contact and appeared to have weighty matters on his mind. The Sun
There's nothing serious or weighty about any of this.
I drop all points of controversy, weighty though these be; I take your defaced and damnified kirk on your own terms; and I ask you, Are you a worthy minister? Lay Morals
The Shipping News deals with weighty issues and is intellectually intriguing, but I found myself uninvolved from start to finish.
Full and potent but not too weighty, Montes Alpha Chardonnay 2003 exhibits a peachy, grapey nose with a slight effervescence.
For those who like to ponder weighty questions, this portion of the book will be an intellectually satisfying read.
The rules are taken seriously, and there are weighty consequences for breaking them.
Eternal concernments are so weighty in themselves and of so near importance to every man, that nothing can be a greater kindness, than to give real help and warning hereabouts.
It jars a little at first, but gives the film an intimacy that belies the weighty subject matter. Times, Sunday Times
As the couple discuss how to handle this, trivial and weighty issues typically become jumbled together. Times, Sunday Times
It tells the story of a group of women who – with the possible exception of designated sass-merchant Maggie Ryan the name denoting Irish descent, unless I'm very much mistaken, and explaining that fiery temperament – are apparently consumed by the earnest joy and weighty responsibility of being Pan American stewardesses. TV review: Pan Am; Who Do You Think You Are?
It is significant that this weighty information is not revealed to the reader.
This weighty political analysis lurks behind a more innocuous form.
In weighty matters such as the EU, global warming, immigration, Islamification…..well anything that affects the long-term survivability of this country really, we must defer to our ‘betters’. THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY..
One of the reasons his career feels so weighty is because of the momentous history it spans. Times, Sunday Times
Some less weighty works are also out of favour. Times, Sunday Times
It is perhaps irresponsible to address a subject that currently has so many weighty associations and deal with it using only anecdotal evidence.
The film, Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog), like Dali's paintings of that era, summons from the unconscious oneiric images weighty with a mysterious significance that would require an interpreter to reveal.
The dancer has also been cast in a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which makes its premiere May 24, that she described as a weighty, funereal pas de deux with principle Marcelo Gomes. A Ballet Company's Summer of Youth
Unlike the delicate quadrant, the mariner's astrolabe was a thick, weighty instrument typically made of cast bronze or brass.
And to say the truth, remembering that Dr. Swinnerton himself never appeared to triturate or decoct or do anything else with the mysterious herbs, our old friend was inclined to imagine the weighty commendation of their virtues to have been the idly solemn utterance of mental aberration at the hour of death. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
These posts are then aggregated or collected into another weighty post, which itself might have the potential to push forward the debate.
Then he gathered the cords together and haled away at it, but found it weighty; and however much he drew it landwards, he could not pull it up; so he carried the ends ashore and drove a stake into the ground and made the net fast to it. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
They make a weighty impression precisely because the same turns of expression recur so continually. The Johannine Writings
It has become a truism to say that the home of weighty subjects in fiction is often young adult books. Times, Sunday Times
By the book's end, readers will find themselves as deeply entwined in the characters 'fates as Nunn is herself, and left to ruminate over a number of weighty debates as the tale weaves in double standards, double lives, emotional betrayal, murder, corruption and sexual deviance. A Beautiful Place to Die: Summary and book reviews of A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn.
The introspection imp usually sits on my shoulder every New Year, but it just seems to be a lot more ‘weighty’ this time.
Surely such weighty matters merit a higher level of debate?
After reading her views on the debate, it makes me wish I had something weighty or political to say, but I'm a little diffident about the whole thing.
The hasty retreat of Constantius might be justified by weighty reasons; but he resigned, without a struggle, the possession of Gaul; and Dardanus, the Praetorian praefect, is recorded as the only magistrate who refused to yield obedience to the usurper. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Nonetheless, it is impossible to escape the sense that this fable is indeed about something weighty. Times, Sunday Times
She used texturizing shears to avoid blunt, weighty ends, and a ceramic flat iron to straighten and separate.
But the absence of weighty matter in no way diminishes the music's brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, this last question might suggest another paramount to the other two -- viz. not whether the points at issue were weighty enough to justify schism and hostile separation, but whether those points could even be safe as mere speculative _credenda_, which, through so long a period of trial, and by so memorable a harvest of national services, had been shown to be unnecessary? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
He considered his consent too weighty to be given in a hurry.
Her lyrics deal with weighty subjects but she can be as flippant as the next joker.
These are indeed very weighty counter-charges: and you might have declared them all before the Court, to which you were summoned: you might have appealed even to the septemvirate, but as you did not appear then, you must bear the consequences of your obstinacy. Debts of Honor
Surely such weighty matters merit a higher level of debate?
These issues are identified as weighty obstacles for rigid economic growth. Business Wire Travel News
Prosperity and wealth can have a weighty influence.
From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness.
Women beware women is one of the messages of this thought-provoking book, which combines dramatic events with weighty chunks of philosophical musing.
A caption reminds us of the weighty importance of Peter's dangling question from the previous ish.
a weighty argument
Nails range from the smallest, thinnest brads to large, weighty spikes.
A friendly critic might have called his heaviness weighty.
Where the position of the animal is such as to throw the weight of the viscera into the pelvis, the brim necessarily widens, these weighty organs sink lower, and the beads of the thigh-bones acting as fulcra permit the crest of the ilium to be carried outward, while the lower part of the pelvis is at the same time contracted. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
the speech was weighty and it was weightily delivered
After his assassination, finally, some recalled a weighty incident in connection with his gilded chair, -- that the servant, as Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
A short photo stop soon cooled us down, before we pushed on up the hill carrying the weighty bags of tackle and camera gear.
It has evolved over the years from a nouveau style to a more weighty red wine with distinctive black raspberry fruit.

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