But neither the frivolity of the music nor the prickly commentaries of the librettos are typical of Hartmann's later works, mostly serious, weighty instrumental music without obvious political content.
The weighty discussion mostly centres on the challenges of affection and longing.
Beyond threatening letters and weighty briefs, they mostly write how-to books.
At the vegan bakery Dun-Well Doughnuts in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which has a backdrop of black-and-white photographs purposefully askew and a soundtrack seemingly cranked through a gramophone, a chalkboard announces a mission to "reverently carry on the tradition of doughnut making in a manner that is both innovative and ethical". The doughnuts, mostly the yeast type, are similarly weighty.
The film, which Mr. Chung wrote with Samuel Anderson (with dialogue mostly improvised by the nonprofessional actors), allows weighty themes of vengeance, justice and forgiveness to hover around the characters and their actions rather than trying to dramatize them too pointedly.
But the reality is that they have just given weighty political endorsement to 4,000 Nato – mostly US – forces now being stationed in the Baltic states and Poland, including possibly in the highly dangerous Suwalki Gap, which separates the Kaliningrad enclave from mainland Russia.
The Irish band sheds youthful innocence in favor of weightier themes, but the lyrics are mostly obvious and the production touches have become largely anonymous.
But we could have skipped saccharine white and dark chocolate mouse, clumsy fruit tarts (mostly crust with microscopic portions of fruit) and chocolate cake weighty with coconut.
Mostly, he favored brisk tempos, bright timbres and a clean if sometimes weighty sound.
"Elliott Erwitt's Kolor," a weighty and lavish collection of the photographer's color work dating back to the 1950s, mostly on Kodachrome but also some Ektachrome, is being published by teNeues this month in Germany and next month in the United States.
Often she sits down under a gazebo to ponder weighty issues, and is joined there by one or other of her interviewees – among them the prince himself – but mostly she just surveys the terrain, attempting to divine the nature of the constant gardener from the topography itself.
