The Vanbrugh-Hawksmoor Baroque manner is often called "heavy," but the heaviness is in the service of the dramatic.
Heating is given as an example of the first kind of motion; "gravity" or rather heaviness, i.e., the tendency of heavy bodies to fall, is cited as an example of the second kind of motion.
Walker dutifully recorded the effects of leaking miasma on the constitution of gravediggers, ranging from general ill health ("pain in the head, heaviness, extreme debility, lachrymation, violent palpitation of the heart, universal trembling, with vomiting") to sudden death.
Woody Allen abandoned Russian heaviness and zeitgeist-tapping frizziness to revel in the delight of form and structure.
"The attacks highlight the unbearable heaviness of being Armenian in Turkey," says Khatchig Mouradian an Armenian activist and academic who lost ancestors in the killings.Academic opinion worldwide tilts towards the view that these constituted genocide.
Over the years he moved from Elizabethan high style to simple, almost conversational free verse, "wringing out the water", as he put it, and aiming for a poetry that was natural, luminous, deep and spare.That was difficult, because Mr Kunitz felt his human heaviness so intensely.
That said, while Germany and Germans might long have suffered from a reputation for heaviness and gravity, in theatres across the country, dancers are dancing: Germans are revelling, maybe for the first time in their history, in the sensation of being light on their feet, at least".Tanz im August" is on in Berlin from August 17th to September 2nd.
The sack's ocular shape hints at an Arab colloquialism that describes a loved one as the "pupil of one's eye", but its heaviness also reveals it as a burden.
Jobs gave an inspiring commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, during which he reflected on the day he was fired from Apple: "The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
This would not bring much benefit on short flights, but on longer ones (say, two or three hours) the weight of the extra fuel needed for the jet turbine would compensate for the inherent heaviness of the diesel engine, meaning that the diesel would offer significant fuel savings.
His career seemed dead.Characteristically, though, Mr Jobs bounced back, once he realised, as he said at Stanford, that "the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again".
