Sentence examples for weighty ceremony from inspiring English sources
It was a weighty ceremony.
There are limits to Mr. Bush's appetite for the stiff ceremonies and weighty colloquies of political life, and Mr. Evans, like many of the governor's best friends, is an essentially nonpolitical person who connects him to a time before all the talk shows and television cameras.
Former President Bill Clinton, making his way through the Capitol after the ceremony, called the speech thoughtful, weighty and well-delivered.
The first movement, originally written as a stand-alone "Todtenfeier" ("Funeral Ceremony"), is like a craggy, lurching 20-minute apotheosis of a funeral march, alternately weighty, mystical and crazed.
Yesterday, the son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and convert to Catholicism was toying with a somewhat less weighty issue: how to balance his modest black-garbed life as a Jesuit scholar with the red-decked ceremony of his new role as a cardinal.
These weren't weighty tomes.
It was large, weighty luggage.
A weighty silence follows.
