Sentence examples for weighty affairs from inspiring English sources

They are weighty affairs in every tine of the word.

From this time a business letter from Amy Dudley survives, settling some debts of her husband's in his absence, "although I forgot to move my lord thereof before his departing, he being sore troubled with weighty affairs, and I not being altogether in quiet for his sudden departing".

In that sense it is perhaps a less weighty affair.

Childhood ambitions fulfilled, Cooper's next role is a much more weighty affair.

There‑ after it was only ever an ordeal in the sun, every point a weighty affair with the potential, it seemed, to be career defining.

The writer's quest can be a weighty affair: an investigation into the status of Africa's dwindling white enclaves or a comparison of post-revolutionary Iran with the country remembered from childhood.

Featuring the likes of Gantz, The Bug, and Commodo, it's a seriously weighty affair.

Many newspapers gave their readers the impression that Sinatra, Toots Shor, and the late Rags Ragland had had a private audience with the President, causing him to neglect weightier affairs.

There's usually a lot at stake: for colleagues, questions of hierarchy and professional pride or wasted hospital resources, for patients a loss of function, for their relatives a suddenly dead spouse or child — weightier affairs than a scratched car.

Pastas are a weightier affair, though not terrible.

To that extent, it captures the intuition that nonconsensual state-breaking, like revolution, is a grave affair requiring a weighty justification.