Sentence examples for heavy mantle from inspiring English sources

Glory, and the envy that follows it, is a heavy mantle to carry.

All this noblesse oblige would have served as a charming and tasteful backdrop to his rise — an unwilling heir accepting his heavy mantle with a heavy heart.

It's a pretty heavy mantle, when you're cast into a celebrity status, to be thrown into the spotlight and make sure every step you take is absolutely perfect".

Then, as Tchaikovsky's melody resolved into a triumphant cadence, the boy slowly raised his arms toward the sky, as if lifting a heavy mantle.

It is a book about a good czar named Boris and his desperate attempt to find somebody who could qualify to carry his heavy mantle into the future.

Karole Armitage/Armitage Gone! Dance (Thursday; through Feb. 9) Karole Armitage has borne the heavy mantle of innovation since her 1981 "Drastic-Classicism," a vision of punk ballerinas in feet-behind-head extensions set to earsplitting guitar.

To some extent the light crust floats on the heavier mantle, as icebergs float on the oceans.

A compound volcano with a heavy snow mantle in winter, it is second only to Mount Fuji in elevation and popular esteem.

The town is Stratford, Conn., and rarely if ever has anything so heavy with the mantle of power rolled into its orbit.

Weighed down by heavy crown and mantle, she mounted a black horse and rode through the city, then charged up a symbolic mound of earth, brandishing her sword toward the four compass points to swear her eternal protection of Hungary.

In the wake of 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, the only horror movie to ever win Best Picture, a big question remained as to what film would next bear the heavy psychological-horror mantle.