The problem, as with so many fairy tales, is the weight of time.
Stalin's legacy, by the weight of time, has proved harder to offload.
Astrov and the audience are waiting for life to begin, and this weight of time passing is the main, coruscating theme of Chekhov's play.
Novak Djokovic is dragging his body to the starting line not far from the Greenwich meridian with his usual disregard for the weight of time.
You're alone with yourself, and your writing, and the feeling of one's mind fraying, from a lot of things — the weight of time, the wailing of the foxes".
Here, like the roads that go no place special and the leftover cotton and that store that refuses to fall down under the weight of time, the story of Emmett Till is just one more half-done thing.
As you watch his swan song, which stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson as the embattled ex-spouses, you feel the crushing weight of time pressing in around them.
When a man gets to a certain age – in my case, 40 or thereabouts – he may find himself seeking insurance against the weight of time and this ordinary life.
When he had a minute to win the game against a Panthers defense that was exhausted by the sheer weight of time spent on the field, he put Vinatieri in range, just as he did against St . Louistwo years ago.
It conveys the oppressive weight of time and a cinematic version of life, encapsulated in an encyclopedic array of human interactions played out in snippets of emotion and plot — love affairs, crimes, hostage crises, death and destruction.
