In 1935 he began sculpting torsos and nudes that were marked by the same solid, weighty, and often brutal style.
While he will never be mentioned in the same breath as his weightier brethren like Harold Pinter or David Hare, Mr. Ayckbourn has been whipping up delectable farces of romantic folly and semisweet stories of marital foibles for a half-century now, and at 72 shows no signs of hanging up his pen.
The effect is light and weighty at the same time.
That's because what it says about a man -- that he's unmoored even in the most unethereal circumstance -- is moving, but what it says about mankind -- the same thing -- is merely weighty.
McGirr argues that Prohibition showed that the police would allow "vice" to flourish in "areas of the city without weighty protectors" — the same process by which, in the decades that followed, drug dealers were allowed to operate in many of the same vulnerable neighborhoods.
Screen International praised the film for being "both breezy and weighty at the same time", though Variety's critic felt it reduced "an immensely disturbing... tale to a series of cartoonish vignettes".
European football lite, perhaps, but this was a weighty occasion all the same.
It is both belly-crampingly hilarious and bleak, morally guided and totally fantastic, megadorable and weighty all at the same time.
At the same time their news coverage is often weighty enough to put English-language networks to shame.
A rock on display in the same gallery, riddled with perforations, looking as weighty as a cliff and as light as a sponge, might be read the same way.
