Aside from implications of modernism and greater appeal in the concerto and conservatism and greater weightiness in the motet, Praetorius found no distinction between concert, concertos ecclesiasticos, sacras cantiones, sacros concentus, and motettas.
Dessert…and beyond: Despite the obvious weightiness of a Christmas blow out, it seems customary to follow up with more of the same and the indulgent siren call of a rich, moist fruity Christmas pudding is agonisingly tempting for a full stomach.
But this episode's moments of portentousness, its dreams and its in-jokes, made me feel a little exhausted, not just with "Mad Men" and the weightiness it likes to cloak itself in — like a naked woman under a fur coat, perhaps — but with our fixation on TV generally, and the importance we attach to this show and others.
I am tired when I'm working hard, and I am extremely tired when I'm not working and the weightiness of being awake presses down on me like a sack of stones.
In Susan Marshall's work, the grizzled virtues of traditional modern dance — the bare feet, the weightiness, the sincerity — come out looking newborn.
At the same time, he soft-pedals the realistic weightiness of bodies, which Masaccio developed and Piero della Francesca would perfect.
According to the online bookseller (whose Wish List function allows an individual to inform friends, family, and other interested parties of the titles he or she would like to own), Waksal drew up, eight days before his incarceration, a reading list of fifty volumes, made up largely of works whose weightiness would put a MacArthur Fellow to shame.
"Yi Zhou almost dissolves the serious weightiness of works which look at the transformation of historical mythology, memory and cultural burden," he said.
Some writers take the task upon themselves in all its weightiness, others do so reluctantly.
I even love saying the word -- the weightiness on the tongue fits its heartiness on the plate.
Wednesday's program opened with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C (K. 503), whose mix of congeniality and weightiness suited the pairing with Bruckner.
