His hang-dog jeans, cuffed at the ankles to take up the slack, were made for a much weightier man, the one he used to be.
Possibly, too, the audience has grown more tolerant of weightier men on screen as the society at large has become heavier.
So it was only natural that Ted Hughes drew heavily on Jung's ideas of myth and the collective subconscious to tackle such weighty issues as man's innately foolish nature within his Crow poems, written between 1966 and 1969.
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.
Either way, Mosley does not seem to be a man given to weighty introspection.
He was a thoughtful man on matters weighty and trivial but laughed at himself, at me and at most situations.
He switched instruments, from the weighty bass drum — "a young man's instrument," Mr. Conway said — to the smaller, lighter tenor drum.
In this well-acted production at Theatre 40, Felicity Nove's set design is dominated by sturdy bookshelves filled with weighty tomes, aptly representing a man who has a more loving relationship with books than with his children.
Do we secretly think that men are more weighty, more serious?
Ms. Baker's huge charcoal drawings featuring weighty clusters of business-suited men are perhaps the most haunting.
Civilians and military men took a weighty decision in invoking the name of d Gaulle... "In the face of insolent sedition," Mendes said to Pfimlin, "your strength is your legitimacy..."....
