That's the simple but smart narrative idea behind Jeff Cohen's play "The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller," a Dog Run Rep production that has a light, sure touch even when it treads on weighty cultural ground.
Driven in a circle at high speed, the steamroller eventually lifted off the ground, centrifugally transcending the weighty machine's apparent physical limitations.
But I am also a design snob, and if I'm going to consider grounding my gorgeous but relatively weighty T. Anthony pieces for what's widely considered some of the lightest luggage around — polycarbonate plastic — it had better look good.
Because the concept of prayer can seem so weighty, Kidd often takes a different, more grounded approach.
Of course, Mr. Bush had weighty matters on his mind, having committed the first American ground troops to the war in Afghanistan.
Still, its unique demographics hold weighty significance for both campaigns, which have been on the ground trying, proving, improving and disproving strategies to engage Latino voters — eyeing both the November elections and the future.
When the twists were done, he held each weighty length in his hands, letting its belly fall toward the ground, then twirled the ends together as if making a pretzel.
Even if evolutionary theory could explain how behaviors came to be considered right or wrong on prudential grounds, it fails to provide a bridge capable of supporting the weighty transition to genuine moral values.
The impact of the weighty 7.62mm bullet knocked him off balance, sending him plummeting to the ground and shattering his spine.
If the life to be given up is our own, on the other hand, the fragment seems to imply that we should make the sacrifice on the grounds of benefiting the world, though only if the consequences are suitably weighty.
