For others, pragmatism and practicality are the way forward – the stiffer their lip, the more chores they load up on, the more the accrued weight of duty will outweigh the pain.
They bear down on you with the solemn, ugly weight of duty.
In the absence of the injured Daniel Sturridge, neither Rickie Lambert nor Adam Lallana, who moved to Anfield from Southampton in the summer, have made their presence felt, and the weight of goalscoring duties has fallen on Raheem Sterling.
As Grace looked into my eyes accusingly, I began to feel that heavy weight of moral duty and responsibility on my shoulders.
Every casting stunt carries the weight of heavy-duty symbolism.
The weight of civic duty clearly didn't hang too heavily on these jurors' shoulders - the course of justice takes in some doodling along the way.
The reason that each of us has to promote the good of her intimates does not have any weight that counters the weight of our duty to maximize intrinsic value; rather, whatever weight our reason to promote the good of our intimates has, it has derivatively as a means of our fulfilling our fundamental or basic duty to maximize value.
Solidarity in the cause carried the weight of civic duty.
'A film of the Israelis killing an American in cold blood would have ended the intifada.' The weight of the heavy-duty, US-made military earthmover, its blade down, dragged over her body, crushing the American student deep into the soil.
This is all good: new life, new workers, new consumers, defying the gloomier forecasts that the depleted ratio of workers to old folk would sink the young under the weight of pensions and caring duties.
