With her small head, massive breasts, gaudy floral-printed yellow skirt and still gaudier red shoes, she is at once utterly graceless and utterly liberated in her earthy enormity.
We will never know whether it was out of respect to her grandchildren or if it was a kind of penance to a nation that slowly had begun to turn against her for her apparent refusal to acknowledge the enormity of her subjects' grief.
In Joyce's death there is no evil force to combat; she simply dies, and Buffy, with all her power, is ill-equipped to grasp the enormity of her situation.
It called her expressions of remorse "superficial" and urged her to continue psychological therapy to come to grips with the "enormity of her crime".
And the enormity of her premise tends to overshadow her characters.
As a freshman congresswoman, Esty said the support of her colleagues was critical to helping her deal with the enormity of Newtown.
Recently, she'd become unhappy at the enormity of her debt and the decline in her home's value, and found herself in a state of near hysteria by the time she sought real estate therapy.
Her most productive and most successful years were simultaneously her saddest, while the enormity of Diamond's illness manifested itself and she comforted herself, and everybody else, with the joyful anticipation of the next mouthful.
The enormity of her achievements hit home as an emotional Carlin received her medal and stood on top of the podium for Hen Wlad fy Nhadau.
"She knew full well the enormity of her offense," Finch tells the jury, in his summation, "but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it".
While the enormity of her artistic legacy remains, she will be sorely missed.
