Yes, it may come as a surprise to many, but in our current system, no judge, defense lawyer or defendant is allowed into the grand jury even though it is the body that, upon information presented solely by the prosecutor, makes the weighty decision of whether to indict a defendant and hold him over for trial.
Having at last sat down to see this contentious opus, I would not defend its right to exist – not because, like Joyce's Ulysses, it is a great work that makes the weightiest prosecutor look a fool, but because it is just too crummy to be concerned about.
But that doesn't make the book any less weighty or challenging.
It's a play to make the word "mortgage" less weighty and ponderous.
Leaving aside his urging to Gregory that he's "gotta get a gimmick" -- advice best given to strippers from the vaudeville era -- Shafer's advice can help make the show more contemporary, more weighty, and more suited to Gregory's strengths.
By building the bars out of stacks of figures, each representing 1000 people who died, I tried to make the bars feel bigger and weightier".
His mastery of the literature, his clarity of thought and elegantly plain language make this weighty book gripping, memorable and easy to understand.
Democrats would make that weighty tax burden much, much heavier.
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, the other really weighty name on the longlist, also failed to make the cut.
Mr. Putin's return to the presidency, he said, has made the outcome "more weighty".
