You have to put guts into the quest and you have to bare some of your soul in the process and if you can bring a few weighty ideas to the table, all the better.
It's a light proposal but there are weighty ideas behind it, not least that the cake is emblematic of a long gone, or slowly crumbled, era given that it was invented to celebrate the marriage of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenburg in 1884.
Rabbi Sacks's 30-minute keynote address, packed with pithy lines and weighty ideas, was both an ode to the Rebbe and a powerful primer on Jewish leadership.
Ed may have struggled with the weighty ideas unfolding onstage, but then so do many adult audience members.
I pondered such weighty ideas recently as I stood on East 17th Street, just west of Union Square Park.
While the conference at Davos may be best known for its discussions of weighty ideas, sometimes this Swiss town is the setting for deal making.
From such is-it-art oddities it was only a short step to the next new interesting thing, Conceptualism, which, at its most reductive, consisted of weighty ideas typed out on thin sheets of paper.
In addition, it shares with the German opera the general idea of a weighty comic statement, something lighthearted but not light.
Mr. Thielemann, who has strong interpretive ideas about Germanic masterworks, strove for a weighty gravity, somewhat like Furtwängler's approach to the score, with bold manipulations of tempo, striking attention to inner details and textures and vivid musical characterization.
A weighty (pardon the pun) subject's on my mind.
