A void that is charged with the weight of emotion, the fears of risk and the expectation that we can overcome.
He once explained that writers often drink because "you have an enormous weight of emotion which you have nowhere to take".
Their dance together, on a dark stage, is among the most moving things I've seen on Broadway, all the more remarkable for the weight of emotion it evokes through theatrically simple means.
His style is never prone to emotional grandstanding in the cliched operatic manner, but the delicacy and patience with which he establishes the timeless misery of prison life, and allows the story's weight of emotion to speak for itself, is masterly.
Then there are the banal effluvia that bear some weight of emotion without ever hardening into symbol: the wine pull whose whereabouts keeps the valet in "The Big-Breasted Pilgrim" up at night, or the bottle of 1985 Opus One that a smug connoisseur in "The Women of This World" insists on opening, even though it's meant for someone else.
I feel this song links to the UOMD trilogy by Michelle Hodkin as both the trilogy and the song are underlined with desperation and a dumbfounding weight of emotion; the feeling of not being able to escape a fate bigger and badder than you could have ever imagined and realizing that it doesn't matter how hard you try to hide your feelings or issues, that they'll always find you in the end.
They take dedication, the kind I can so rarely afford to give; but when they offer rewards like the stunning sights and superlative storytelling of The Witcher 3, or the heart-crushing weight of emotion summoned by The Last of Us, the late nights and foggy mornings are totally worth it.
But I made a decision not to sink under the weight of those emotions, and that I'd make having HIV into something meaningful.
The weight of the emotions are literally slumping my shoulders and I feel like the animal is calling out to give me courage.
This event defined my life and propelled me on a journey back to my authentic-self, something that had been buried underneath the density and weight of unexpressed emotions.
All the weight of suppressed emotion falls on those desperately restrained words "acceptable" and "reasonable".
