Inside, casually dressed shareholders discussed weighty subjects such as social responsibility and the economic crisis.Until a few months ago Banca Etica was known only to insiders.
In Washington, Graham, who is from South Carolina, is a member of the Armed Services Committee and spends nearly every Sunday on talk shows, discussing weighty foreign-policy issues.
In just a few hours, the two of them will be discussing weighty matters of foreign policy during an NBC commander-in-chief forum on Wednesday night.
Whenever she put down the phone, she would picture him in some bright room — a conference center, perhaps, or a restaurant — discussing weighty business with colleagues, talking about engineering or politics just loud enough so the waitress would hear.
The location of the talks — the subterranean bar at Mr. Dennehy's Irish pub on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village — made it clear that the delegates were not diplomats discussing weighty international matters.
In his college town, Madison, Wis., Zeke is the last of his social circle, a disbanded group who once spent their time slumming in an old-man bar, "discussing weighty books and foreign films, drinking can after can of Miller High Life in ironic appreciation for the cheap things in life".
"His unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor". In a conversation with Salon in May, Johnson discussed weighty issues of race and identity at length, and explained his unique perspective.
Famously contrary in interviews, Atwood seemed least comfortable when asked about herself memoir is the single genre she has avoided as a writer and she was most at ease discussing weighty and controversial subjects: religion, political power, the purposes of literature, environmental catastrophe.
