Sentence examples for given ballast from inspiring English sources
Beef semur ($14) is beef Bourguignon by way of Indonesia, given ballast by tamarind and kecap manis, a syrup of soy and palm sugar.
At the time, the press described this as her "serious album", a theory given ballast by her divorce from Sean Penn, a spell in a Mamet play on Broadway and her world-shattering decision to go brunette.
His travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations has given ballast to the Islamic State, his somersaults on Taiwan are seen to have strengthened China's hand, and his unpleasant exchanges with the leaders of close allies like Mexico and Australia have left many diplomats wondering whether they can count on the world's most powerful nation as a reliable partner.
If done well, diagnosing the misspent life can be revelatory and heartbreaking, and give ballast to otherwise ordinary stories.
But this seriousness, which complicates his boyishness with pathos, gives ballast to a movie that might have drifted along on charm.
And, for the most part, the actors are unable to imbue their characters with enough emotional substance to give ballast to their strange and sketchy natures.
They lack specific gravity, a sense of rootedness in family and social reality that would give ballast to the film's intense emotions.
The conflicting trends give ballast to both sides in the debate over whether the Police Department's handling of excessive force cases is so flawed that an outside monitor should be appointed to oversee it.
With the soundtrack to Gaye's own life – and that of a whole generation – absent, Williams and director James Dacre instead draw upon the Royal and Derngate Community Choir, who sing gospel classics to some effect, and attempt to give ballast to the domestic tale by recasting it as a Greek tragedy.
Constellation, which owns brands such as Robert Mondavi Winery and imports Mexican beers such as Corona, Modelo Especial and Pacifico, will give Ballast Point access to a wider distribution network and stronger buying power for ingredients and equipment.
He may have also given Wallace ballast for a central conceit in "The Pale King": that the crushing boredom of tax work may be the gateway to transcendent ecstasy (or, in the case of one agent, actual bodily levitation).
