Sentence examples for can weighty from inspiring English sources

Re "The Big Chill at the Lab" (column, Nov. 3), in which Bob Herbert complains about my organization's questions concerning National Institutes of Health grants: So can weighty scientific matters like prostitutes who ply their trade in truck-stop parking lots be understood only by Ivy League-trained doctors and scientists?

For these growing ranks, immigration can have weighty psychological consequences.

And many of those decisions, often based on telephone descriptions from a villager, can be weighty.

DOORS and walls made of light-reflecting marble can be weighty, both in pounds and dollars.

In some ways, it is like a live animated cartoon, but it can address weighty dramatic subjects as well as comic ones.

That said, marriage in and of itself can carry weighty assumptions about what each partner expects from the other person, and that can sometimes create resentment and disappointment if one or the other partner is not living up to them.

It can appear weighty and oppressive.

Such risks, though, can seem less weighty to patients when their parents share the cost.

While more fervent advocates can gravitate toward weighty projects — a green roof or solar panels, for example — mundane measures can make more of an impact, experts say.

Having a country's hopes resting on your shoulders, especially with the Olympics in your hometown, can be a weighty burden.

But this time the Palestinians are hoping they can muster enough weighty support from Europe to overcome right-wing domestic constraints in the United States and Israel that have helped stall negotiations for at least 18 months.