Noelle Stevenson

Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.

American Artist

Richard Wagner

In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

German Composer

Ahmed Zewail

We must nurture creative scientists in an environment that encourages interactions and collaborations across different fields, and support research free from weighty bureaucracies.

Egyptian Scientist

Virginia Woolf

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

British Author

Gore Vidal

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

American Novelist

Jesmyn Ward

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

Francis Bacon

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

English Philosopher

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

British Politician

Tony Vincent

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

American Actor

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Roman Statesman

Used to describe objects that are difficult to move because of their mass.

Physical Objects

Sometimes used to exaggerate the heaviness of an object for effect.

Exaggerated Expression

Used metaphorically to express the gravity of non-physical subjects.

Metaphorical Weight

Often pertains to topics needing serious contemplation or discussion.

Serious Discussions

Can describe emotional or psychological burdens that feel heavy.

Emotional Burdens

Refers to challenges or tasks that are hard to accomplish or solve.

Substantial Challenges

Emphasizes the considerable impact or potential consequences of choices.

Impacting Choices

 right at the center of gravity, or just slightly above the center of gravity, which means that the lower half of the object is just a little bit more weighty. So you can see it rotating here. It weighs about a ton or over a ton. It's made of stainless steel, quite thick.

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 with fragmented sentences that break off suddenly. And other short declarative sentences in the story create a mix of breathless speed and weighty pauses. On the screen, Alfred Hitchcock's cinematography

Weighty