He pointed at the titanium rod that weighs three ounces and runs down his surgically repaired leg.
After all, he points out, a ship hitting a whale that weighs as much as 25 elephants isn't good for the vessel, either.
And every day that weighs on me.
I saw something on black holes last night that described them as tiny points in space that weigh thousands of times the mass of our sun, and whose immense gravities draw whole galaxies worth of dust, gas, light, planets and other crap into their guts, obliterating them, occasionally spewing out firey blasts of galactic fury.
If you can convey your passion for the research that you do, the quality of your proposed research program, your high-caliber teaching skills, and your grant-writing abilities up to this point, that will weigh heavily in your favor.
They huddled in the sleeping bag, sharing the wine and a bag of trail mix, reading to each other from a book of Donne's love poems (she was writing a paper for Mrs. Masterson called "Ocular Imagery in the Poetry of John Donne") and the last third of a vampire novel that weighed eighteen-point-one ounces.
In his book Folk dör här (People Die Here), the journalist Thord Eriksson pointed out that weighing diapers is common practice across the sector, arguing that the care sector's shortcomings had little to do with private or public ownership.
Auden, with more irascibility than one might expect, pointed out that this was a poisonous doctrine — the idea is to juggle golden balls that weigh something.
Counterweights are things that weigh 5-6 grams.
Myself, I wrote a mixed take last season, in which I praised "Mad Men" in general but cavilled, at length, about how Don had become an anvil of a character, to the point that he weighed the series down.
