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The phrase "a weighty reading" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a text or piece of literature that is substantial, significant, or thought-provoking in nature.
Example: "The novel offers a weighty reading that challenges the reader's perceptions of morality and justice."
Alternatives: "a profound reading" or "a substantial reading".
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Grafton led me to such rollicking footnoters as Edward Gibbon, whose judgmental, conversational and explicatory notes in "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" lighten a weighty read.
You get demands for large amounts of money, weighty reading lists arrive and your parents appear to be eyeing up your bedroom for other uses.
In the end the Lutosławskis' weightier reading is perhaps the more satisfying, but the Silesians' version is highly persuasive too, and it is good to hear these works interpreted differently.
In fact it is discrimination plainly at work, and hangs a weighty placard around women's necks that reads: "We control your bodies and if you don't do what we say you must pay the price".
Indulge in this light read before you plunge into the magazine's more heavy-duty offerings – a weighty tome on Mr. Modi awaits you.
It was a weighty ceremony.
A weighty silence follows.
It has a weighty, mythological resonance.
It's a weighty issue.
This is a weighty argument.
"It's a weighty thing," Jensen said.
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