Sentence examples for weighty debt from inspiring English sources

Just as Ellroy's LA Confidential owed a weighty debt to Chinatown, so Rampart nods to The French Connection, whose abusive anti-hero, Popeye Doyle, descended into paranoid madness during the course of the drama.

In terms of structure and sentimentality, The Butler owes a weighty debt to Forrest Gump, which similarly won the hearts of mainstream American audiences while drawing howls of derision from sniffy liberal critics.

Despite austerity measures brought in five years ago, a tenth of the city's DM42 billion budget this year has to be financed through new loans, adding to an already weighty debt burden, the highest per person of any of Germany's 16 states.

In terms of both narrative and atmosphere, Glazer's film owes a weighty debt to The Man Who Fell to Earth, Roeg's adaptation of Walter Tevis's novel in which David Bowie played an alien who crossed the galaxy in search of a drink only to wind up an Earthbound drunk.

Yet such talented players as Julianne Nicholson and Juno Temple are often sidelined in a boy's own affair that finds little space for female characters of the calibre of Lorraine Bracco's Karen Hill or Diane Keaton's Kay Adams in the films to which this owes such a weighty debt.

Not a patch on Neil Marshall's The Descent (to which it owes a weighty debt), this nuts-and-bolts shocker nevertheless has a few scares up its sleeve, thanks in no small part to a noisy soundtrack that cranks up the "boo!" factor, with unavoidably jumpy results.

The company also managed to reduce its weighty net debt by £35m to £386m.

While the first Hunger Games movie owed a weighty (if unacknowledged) debt to Kinji Fukasaku's controversial Japanese hit Battle Royale (and Koushun Takami's source novel), this second instalment leans more towards the themes of Norman Jewison's dystopian 70s offering Rollerball.

Prof. Gal said the findings have relevance for pursuing other goals, even if they aren't as weighty as getting out of debt.

Next month, to be sure, the president will attend summit meetings in Europe and Asia, where he will get to talk about weighty, world-leader-worthy issues like the European debt crisis, the rise of China and the future of the Arab world.

In Italy, Mr. Monti will have a weighty double mandate: to help restore growth and prod Europe to find a more comprehensive solution to the debt crisis.