But Mr. Ong chooses to present Ah Na's life as a slight, weightless fairy tale, whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism.
Last year Camby was a weightless wonder as he hovered above the court's surface and turned missed shots into emphatic dunks.
We can persuade ourselves that we are living on thin air, floating through a weightless economy, as gullible futurologists predicted in the 1990s.
The model of alpine skier has been considered as a material particle connected with a weightless rod.
Their logic goes like this: If the books are searchable, if they can be updated with a few clicks and an online connection, and if they can be as weightless as digital bits, students might actually spend money on them instead of bypassing the cash register in favor of the photocopy machine.
That would be wasted breath anyway; Hitler, Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl have lately been invoked so much by the left and right, even in tacky campaign commercials, that they're becoming as weightless as the Three Stooges.
I felt, several times, that I really had no idea how I pulled off any particular move, save for the basic kicks and punches which, appropriately, are as weightless as they are in real life, there for show more than effect.
The Communist period, for them, survives here as an increasingly weightless novelty of recollection, yet one worth preserving, as it is, after all, history.
For those who do not want to wield a steak knife, there are sheep-milk ricotta gnudi as weightless as if the dough had been whipped with helium.
