His performance this week at the BayArena in Leverkusen, where he was arguably United's most influential player despite weighty contributions from Wayne Rooney, Antonio Valencia, Shinji Kagawa and Chris Smalling, married vision and experience in a masterclass of footballing productivity.
Not for the first time, they were bailed out again by weighty contributions down the order, as Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid put on 99 for the ninth wicket – the highest English partnership for that wicket in Asia.
Among the weightier contributions was a report from the Group of Thirty (G30), an informal collection of past and present central-bank governors.
The batting will also need a weightier contribution from Moeen Ali, as well as hoping that Sri Lankan signing Thilan Samaraweera can roll back the years.
A big, weighty theatre part.
The Germans reckon they are playing a weighty role in the war, whether in their contribution to the military effort, in their generosity to refugees, or in their peace-seeking diplomacy.
Nothing anyway would have been possible without the weighty management structure of Springer, the continuous and qualified contribution of the reviewers, the shared effort from the Editorial and the Advisory Board, creating the conditions for this extraordinary vehicle that is The Journal of Headache and Pain to deliver a great performance.
For hardcore aficionados who would like to see the contribution of this latter-day John Fahey given suitably weighty acknowledgement, Honest Strings, the six-and-a-half-hour tribute album currently downloadable at Fina-Music.com (with all proceeds going to Rose's estate), is probably the way to go.
It is the director's contribution to 8, a series of movies strung around a weighty brief: the United Nation's development project on millennium goals.
This new approach, the subject of a weighty book just published by the World Bank*, is based on "notional" (or non-financial) defined contributions (NDCs) by workers.
League meetings were to be held, almost certainly, in a single-chamber organization, in which Athens had only a single vote, though a weighty one; there were perhaps undertakings, subsumed in the general oath taking, about not deserting or refusing military contributions.
