The phrase "a weighty debt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or burdensome financial obligation or moral responsibility.
Example: "After years of overspending, he found himself facing a weighty debt that he struggled to repay."
Alternatives: "a heavy debt" or "a substantial debt".
In terms of structure and sentimentality, The Butler owes a weighty debt to Forrest Gump, which similarly won the hearts of mainstream American audiences while drawing howls of derision from sniffy liberal critics.
In terms of both narrative and atmosphere, Glazer's film owes a weighty debt to The Man Who Fell to Earth, Roeg's adaptation of Walter Tevis's novel in which David Bowie played an alien who crossed the galaxy in search of a drink only to wind up an Earthbound drunk.
Yet such talented players as Julianne Nicholson and Juno Temple are often sidelined in a boy's own affair that finds little space for female characters of the calibre of Lorraine Bracco's Karen Hill or Diane Keaton's Kay Adams in the films to which this owes such a weighty debt.
Not a patch on Neil Marshall's The Descent (to which it owes a weighty debt), this nuts-and-bolts shocker nevertheless has a few scares up its sleeve, thanks in no small part to a noisy soundtrack that cranks up the "boo!" factor, with unavoidably jumpy results.
Despite austerity measures brought in five years ago, a tenth of the city's DM42 billion budget this year has to be financed through new loans, adding to an already weighty debt burden, the highest per person of any of Germany's 16 states.
One reason for investor skepticism may be NTLs weighty debt burden.
iShares, positioned as one of the leaders in the sector, should be able to expand, assuming it is not burdened by weighty debt interest payments.
Investors seemed to approve of the Midland, Mich.-based company's efforts to pay down the weighty debt it had to take on to complete the Rohm acquisition through divesting Rohm's non-core assets.
While the first Hunger Games movie owed a weighty (if unacknowledged) debt to Kinji Fukasaku's controversial Japanese hit Battle Royale (and Koushun Takami's source novel), this second instalment leans more towards the themes of Norman Jewison's dystopian 70s offering Rollerball.
In Italy, Mr. Monti will have a weighty double mandate: to help restore growth and prod Europe to find a more comprehensive solution to the debt crisis.
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