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.
That said, the shepherd, Corydon, has two actual laments: the weight of time and the loss of love.
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.
Seven miles long and five miles wide, it is bikeable, and this is the best way to appreciate the stillness here, the weight of time and history.
I dread the full weight of time and distance that will inevitably make her absence a solid thing, final and irreversible.
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".
But in these rapidly changing times, the existence of many is threatened, especially older structures dating back hundreds of years, victims of the weight of time itself and the high cost of maintaining them.
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.
