Traditionally, portraits were painted of rulers and leaders at weighty historical moments.
But onstage the insertion of tragedy felt deeply manipulative, and unearned, a feint at weighty matters that cheapened rather than charged everything around it.
This is not the first time Corgan has layered long-winded pretension on to excessive scope; and, as Kaleidyscope reminds us, he's rarely been shy of mauling the English language to tilt at weighty whimsy, either.
IN the 1980s, I ate many weighty meals at the SoHo barbecue restaurant Tennessee Mountain with my mother and grandmother, sometimes after shopping, sometimes after visiting my uncle, who lived in a loft a couple of blocks away.
Aided by the wizards at London's Framestore, Gravity invites us to gaze in awe at the cinematic spectacle of space, to marvel at the weighty mysteries of this big-screen cosmos.
Barenboim elicited performances at once weighty and vital.
Nearly two-and-a-half years on, White Teeth (Hamish Hamilton, £12.99) is finished, at a weighty 462 pages, and about to be published.
By Hendrik Hertzberg October 9, 2012 Tomorrow evening, down at N.Y.U., you can catch a free screening of "Electoral Dysfunction," a lighthearted look at a weighty subject.
Tomorrow evening, down at N.Y.U., you can catch a free screening of "Electoral Dysfunction," a lighthearted look at a weighty subject.
Two, if the Tyson-Lewis fight draws 1.4 million pay-per-view purchases (at a weighty $54.95), the rating equivalent would be a 1.3.
As Benton stared at the weighty birthright from the alte heym, or Old World, bafflement struck: she knew, from an interview she conducted with her family members for a history class, that they fled the German invasion, hid in nearby forests, were interned at multiple labor camps and trekked through miles of often snow-covered forest in the east.
