It was probably added to hold together the bottom story, which began to spread under the pressure of the immense weight of earth and stone accumulated above.
Orwell's explanation, given a few years later in "The Road to Wigan Pier" (which is a far more sociological and political book, about the unemployed poor in northern England), connects the experience to his years as an imperial cop in Burma: I was conscious of an immense weight of guilt that I had got to expiate.
(A couple of pieces, like a real broken safe from which 74 million lira was once stolen, will be re-creations, Ms. Spector said, but only because of their immense weight).
"Not only is it the one area where there is productive US-China cooperation, but it is the one area where China is actively behaving like a superpower and they are actually taking on the responsibility of having that immense weight in the emissions talks.
So can the choice of articles, the prominence they're given, the immense weight of the entire, cumulative chronicle of a too-long campaign.
The first African-American to become a national hero to whites as well as blacks (with the possible exception of Jesse Owens), the Brown Bomber had the immense weight of race on his back.
At the fore of the march, several men bear the immense weight of an ornate apparatus called an alam on their shoulders.
In a world already crumbling under the immense weight of greed, corruption, and the gluttony of a largely ignorant society, it is the catalyst that drives humanity into the darkness, and in turn sets the stage for a new dystopian world depicted by Isaac Marion in his novel, Warm Bodies.
The lakes east of the Andes formed in a long trough created when the immense weight of that growing mountain chain pressed Earth's crust downward, Sacek says.
Kittiwakes and oystercatchers fussed noisily around us as Judy explained that as the earth sheds the immense weight of the ice, it breathes a huge sigh of relief and, in a process called rebound, bounces back at nearly two inches a year.
