Britain has a rich tradition of election fiction, but the local contests described in Victorian novels have all but disappeared in the last 100 years, and it's playwrights and thriller writers who now find material in polls and parliament rather than weighty, big-name novelists.
A big, weighty theatre part.
It's the big, weighty film Spielberg has been trying to make for years, the likes of Amistad, or Munich".
Happily, as choices go this is a very good one, with the strength to move the Disco 4's big, weighty body around with decent pace.
The first entrants to the market — big, weighty, flashy things — are no longer the most interesting, at least not to me.
Joy and depression are connected to the big, weighty things — chemistry, trajectory, contentment — that we control on longer timelines.
"When they were snooping for evidence, there were big weighty things that they were snooping for -- he visited Japan at one point and met some Japanese officials, and they seemed to be brewing a case for traitor-hood, which could carry the death penalty.
The problem with being a GP is there's so many; if you read all of the bloody NICE guidelines that were relevant to us, and there're all big weighty documents, and we're meant to all look at them, and sign them off for the PCT.
(General physician) The problem with being a GP is there's so many; if you read all of the bloody NICE guidelines that were relevant to us, and there're all big weighty documents, and we're meant to all look at them, and sign them off for the PCT.
The easy beach reads of summer make way for autumn's weightier tomes from the big dogs of literary fiction: Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth and their ilk.
Mr. Zaslav, whose favorite phrase at meetings is "keep it going," now faces arguably bigger, more weighty challenges with three new channels, one for children with Hasbro, one in 3-D with Sony and Imax, and one with Oprah Winfrey.
