How could we let something so weightless as a year cause so much damage to our lives?
How can such a hefty hunk of meat possibly be so weightless, and so beguiling?
Now that there is a tendency to hear every work by Shostakovich as a bitter political commentary, borne out of misery, it is refreshing to hear the Borodins play something like the Quartet No 6, and to make it sound so unlaboured, so weightless.
"When you are swimming," he says, "you become almost weightless, and that weightlessness has something in common with thought".
Put all of the weight into your lifted leg, so the leg that is flat on the floor feels weightless.
Warm-up parabolas simulating Martian (0.38g) and lunar (0.16g) gravities are followed by a dozen or so fully weightless manoeuvres before returning to Earth.
At its core is Cracknell's airy, elegant voice; a weightless mystique that carries a heavy heart.
Skating to selections from George Winston's "Winter Into Spring," she glided atop the ice so smoothly that she looked weightless.
Although this sad, upsetting story raises serious moral issues, it is treated so lightly that it feels weightless.
WHETHER flying through the air looking weightless or spinning so fast that they turn into a blur, figure skaters at the Olympics often make their sport look easy.
Brancusi's subject is not a bird, but flight itself, and in the later "Birds in Space" the exquisite proportions, the play of light on polished marble or metal, and the asymmetrical balance evoke a weightless, lifting sensation so kinetic that it takes your breath away.
