"I'm interested in weighty stuff, but this oversaturated earnestness, that angst — ugh, enough.
In short, it's easy to write plangent pieces bemoaning lack of interest in weighty events.
By necessity she mostly sticks to books 250 to 300 pages or fewer — Thomas Pynchon's paranoid primer "The Crying of Lot 49," for example, rather than the weightier, in all ways, "Gravity's Rainbow".
It was a titanic performance, but in a weighty, overly somber way.
Ali Smith's How to Be Both would also have made a worthy, very different winner, but this is in some ways a weightier book.
Although the erosion of southern Louisiana is well-known, for instance, much of the East Coast is sinking as Earth's mantle, deep below, continues to adjust in complex ways to the disappearance of weighty ice age glaciers.
The sport's national headquarters sit in the shadows of the Etihad Stadium - a fitting metaphor, in many ways, for a sport trying to shine among its weightier opposition.
And yet somehow it feels participatory in a way that the weighty HBO drama does not.
In some ways, it is like a live animated cartoon, but it can address weighty dramatic subjects as well as comic ones.
In some ways his approach was reminiscent of Rudolf Serkin's, with the first two movements weighty and philosophical -- pictures of serenity, where possible -- and the last two pictures of Viennese light-spiritedness.
