Sentence examples for take on weight from inspiring English sources

The prevailing artistic wisdom seems to be: Marginal ideas take on weight if shot in slow motion.

The reminiscence spills out of Eula with such excitement that only afterward do the words take on weight.

The election is Sunday, and the campaign has suddenly seemed to take on weight and moment, with Mr. Milosevic trying to beat back the challenge of those he considers traitors, while the opposition gathered courage from numbers and from the obvious nervousness of the regime.

During the same period she began to take on weight, until serious obesity.

Suffered indeed.. Works of art take on weight on this country, and pink comes into the cheeks of the statues after a while.

She had purposely taken on weight, but Mr. Ziegfeld did not like it.

The Mondel family eats a lot of candy but they have not taken on weight.

Once the novel is ended, difficult questions have floated into the reader's mind, settled there and taken on weight.

Some in the group have taken on new husbands or wives, or new jobs; the working-class characters have taken on weight, too.

In the Village Voice, Alan Scherstuhl added, "Always compelling, 'A War' demands that viewers engage with the questions your '13 Hours' or 'American Sniper' fears to take on, weighting the moral costs of 'our' lives versus 'theirs,' asking what toll the choices that soldiers face exact upon them, and taking a hard look at the impossibility of justice in many cases of civilian casualties.

The two senators' opposition took on weight because a Republican colleague, Dean G. Skelos of Rockville Centre, the deputy majority leader in the State Senate, represented the majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, on the four-member Capital Program Review Board, which rejected the capital plan.