Sentence examples for hardly weighty from inspiring English sources

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Regarding the Pain of Others is serious enough, but hardly weighty.

And while Ms. Pierson's book draws on her own experiences — which, as she hovers near 60, are not inconsiderable — it is hardly weighty or pedantic.

Mr. Abraham's Barabas, on the other hand, in David Herskovits's antic postmodern production of "The Jew of Malta," comes across as a harmless cartoon, a baddie from an episode of "Scooby-Doo" hardly weighty enough to inspire much hand-wringing from the Anti-Defamation League.

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Hardly a weighty cross to bear, perhaps, but when the British fashion industry and its workforce are struggling more than ever to compete in a global recession, one that a great number of ordinary people are relying on her to carry with flair.

Yet to talk of such weighty matters hardly does justice to the most significant aspect of the American Psycho reading experience: the fact that it's hilarious.

Sure, a few nosy acquaintances of my mother's flashed knowing smiles, but there were so many secrets already — the black-market eggs, the medicine my mother snuck home for my grandma, and, of course, our visa application for America — that this hardly seemed like a weighty addition.

WASHINGTON — Humanity just made a weighty decision.

But they are hardly ethereal: they produce a light so weighty it "tramples" on the poet's days.

I'm not sure if this was a brain scramble or just a typing error, but on Tuesday we said, of Harry Redknapp's autobiography, "The author of the weighty tomb claims he can hardly write".

That great Elgarian Andrew Davis, conducting his old band, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, together with the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales and fine if evidently hot soloists, could hardly be a better advocate for this weighty oratorio.

The morality of the show is hardly set in stone, imbuing this anti-hero musical with a weighty complexity.

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