Bernard Tschumi's delicate exercise in blending contemporary architecture into a weighty historical context carries a political message from the Greek government.
Because of the weighty historical context (Britain on the eve of the Second World War) and the role (the story revolves around the King's struggle to overcome a debilitating stammer, with the help of a speech therapist, played by Geoffrey Rush), it's being discussed as Oscar material.
A second way to deflate the dialectical force of ethical supervenience is to grant that explaining it is a good thing to do, but deny that this is a particularly weighty consideration in the context of theory-choice (compare Enoch 2011, 147 8).
In this case, there's the additional burden of absorbing info about the grandparents and necessarily weighty baggage about the historical context.
By contrast, transformations that could leave authority with the past self must involve a more global loss of capacity such that one can no longer generate, in any context, interests of a special, morally weighty type.
Perhaps because in recent decades cultural tensions have skewed from the past's weighty achievements, perhaps because in so many contemporary contexts populism is celebrated as a virtue in itself, the mission of the public library can seem more vulnerable.
In his article "Brag Like That" for Barnes & Noble, Robert Christgau comments that "Jay-Z is a grown man and Kanye West is not" on the album and elaborates on their lyrics, stating: Their lyrics also exhibit political and socioeconomic context, which Jody Rosen denotes as "serious, sober, weighty".
In "Weighty Concerns," by Samantha Kwan and Mary Nell Trautner, in the spring 2011 issue of Contexts, the magazine of the American Sociological Association, the authors complain that Americans are in the thrall of a "moral panic" about weight.
We find it refreshing that his commentary on weightier issues like the Troy Davis trial is sprinkled with Yeats quotes and Dostoyevsky factoids, adding historical context to a sometimes transient social platform.
Rather, she said, "People are appropriately anxious when the consequences are so weighty, and when your research is going to be so instantly taken up and used in a variety of contexts".
