Mr. Leigh, who is also well known as a film director ("Topsy-Turvy"), mercilessly satirizes that social stripe in which living rooms are decorated in orange and black, spouses live together in near silence and social conversation rarely involves any issue weightier than whether olives are fit to eat.
Taking in a nutritious working lunch, Europe's prime ministers, presidents and chancellors devoted half of Wednesday to weighty issues of energy and taxation.
He listens as library users raise issues of weighty and unbookish substance, such as the overcharging of African-Americans for ordinary foodstuffs.
At certain big moments in our lives, we simply want the people closest to us to shut up and defer, especially on issues as weighty as how far melon is from orange on the color wheel.
Ethics legislation was among a number of weighty issues delayed by an attempted takeover of the Senate by Republicans that blocked state business for much of the summer.
Donna Karan recently issued a weighty jersey "infinity dress," which transforms from a cap-sleeve sheath to a halter dress or one-shoulder gown.
Indeed, when facing a thorny political issue or weighty public policy debate, Mr. Pataki's way, not unfamiliar to other elected leaders, has often been to use reticence, adopt some careful nuance or remain relatively quiet.
It's great isn't it, I say, that because of the background you come from you're able to do a populist take on serious, weighty issues?
Before that happens though, a constitutional settlement would need to be agreed with the UK government, involving weighty issues which may take a long time to resolve.
Mr. Bennett denied that the move was in retaliation, saying that he simply wanted to take a greater role in the panel's discussions on weighty issues like the anti-terrorism package and racial profiling bills.
