This year, my choices have been less weighty.
Wang's books are less weighty but much more fun.
The imbalance is partly due to the legacy of the classical canon: in Shakespeare 16% of the parts are for women, and the greatest roles are less weighty than those of their male counterparts.
And there are less weighty delights, like Blender's take on the greatest 100 indie-rock albums and Esquire's declaration that Charlize Theron is the Sexiest Woman Alive.
As in today's case, officials said, the State Division of Consumer Affairs customarily prosecutes fraud though civil suits, in which the burden of proof is less weighty and the main objective is to satisfy buyers who complain.
It's less weighty than Schubert's "Die Schöne Müllerin" or "Winterreise"—two works that have been enjoying an extended moment in New York's concert halls but, at about half the length of those works, "Dichterliebe" is far more easily programmed.
The real deals, uncondensed, are no less weighty, but suddenly they're looking less scary, more approachable, more essential even.
And similarly, with respect to the legal enforcement of promisees' expectations, Scanlon argues that the benefits of legal enforcement are substantial,[16] while the costs of enforceability are much less weighty.[17] Scanlon therefore concludes, once again, that in light of this balance no person could reasonably reject a legal regime that enforces contractual expectations (Scanlon 2001).
And some measures are decidedly less weighty, involving relatively minor language changes in state constitutions that nonetheless require voter approval.
