At a workshop the writer attends, a hefty, middle-aged woman in a pink shirt sobbed as she said, "The Lord has delivered me from Little Debbie cakes".... Shamblin takes every word of the Bible as divinely inspired, but she interprets it as if it were a contemporary diet manual.
All we lacked for the authentic experience was a brush with tragedy, neatly announced shortly thereafter by a throat-shredding yell from up the bank: 'Yer kid's in the water!' By the time I'd thrown myself ashore, the hefty middle-aged skinhead responsible for these words had already hauled our aquatically challenged seven-year-old out.
Instead, the rather hefty and middle-aged man on the ladder was that singer, Richard Versalle, and, as he launched into his aria, I thought that his precarious perch above the stage was surely inhibiting his vocal performance — and also that his singing was rendering his perch all the more precarious.
Another hefty chunk of middle America who Oprah has recently succeeded in upsetting is the evangelical Christian movement, who are troubled by her recent drift towards alternative spiritualism.
"The only two things of interest were a player called Olsen dramatically reintroducing his hefty dinner in the middle of the centre and one of the opposition sliding through the mess five minutes later".
The agribusiness group has suffered a hefty beating since the middle of the year as investors have flown the coop on this group in search of greener pastures.
According to Social Security's chief actuary, their plan would reduce Social Security by a hefty 22percentt for a middle-class worker earning an average $43,084 annually.
Google George Peppard and up comes a hefty drink problem in his middle years when things rather dipped after Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Beneath the spruce tree, he pointed out some hefty specimens: the top, or middle, leaf was more rounded and perched a bit higher than the others thanks to a leaf petiole or stem.
He was hefty and heavily tattooed, a middle-aged man with a cushy job, a powerful father and a host of compelling reasons to keep his head down and his mouth shut.
One way it did this was by offering hefty federal subsidies to low-to-middle-income households.
