Indeed, the emotional stakes seem weightier here than in his fiction, with Shteyngart using his linguistic and comic gifts to reveal the essence of a subject near and dear to him: himself.
While it's somewhat heartening to see a new firm set up shop in New York City, there's another weighty question here that hasn't been answered yet: now that nearly all of its staff has spun off a new venture fund, what's going to happen to AOL Ventures?
But Antares should also remind us that, when it comes to America's role in the connected global economy, we also need to act on some weighty issues here on Earth.
While these discussions are under way here, weightier debates about Guantánamo's future are playing out in Washington.
A moral compass was as necessary, many of them taught, as a magnetic one, a divine anchor as steadying as the weighty one on display here.
There is weighty stuff at stake here, friends.
And art here means the weighty European tradition: Schiller, Mahler, Céline, Hamsun and Heidegger are tossed on the fire; no mention of, say, Stieg Larsson or Madonna.
Mr. Morris's strange dramatic imagination is evident in many details here, like a weighty duet in which Dallas McMurray picks Michelle Yard off the floor, then rolls her along it, and in which she, her back on the floor, ends by bouncing him upward off her body.
While the Pacific Northwest recovers from the anarchy last week–"It's a diversion from the same old antitrust case," says one cabbie the weighty decision of the day here seems to be whether to have a latte or cappuccino while decrying the government's lawsuit.
Knowing the textual resonances present in this simple but weighty word, can I say, "Here I am?" The ability to answer this great call requires the cultivation of at least three different personal qualities addressed in the "Hineni".
