For all the weighty material, Mr. Obama had a disarming touch.
Pitchfork Media's Jayson Greene felt that "the miracle of this album is how it ties straightforward rap thrills" to its "weighty material" and narrative.
The work may look old-fashioned to some, with its attention to relationships between abstraction and representation, its choice of weighty materials (wood and bronze) and its heroic scale.
The works, fittingly for this white-walled space, are all about the play of illusion, how weighty materials can look light as air against these walls, and can be yoked together to create strange conjunctions.
The oxymoron is certainly an appropriate description of his work, in which weighty materials seem to float and sometimes to soar.
The three Josies get more or less equal time to interact with the play's other characters (although Kate Arrington, a ringer for Katherine Heigl of "Grey's Anatomy," seems to get much of the weightier material).
*+ "GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE". Working with an all-male cast and a weighty archive of material, the director, Moises Kaufman, has shaped a sharply intelligent, dramatically fresh take on a subject that at least by the standards of Greenwich Village (home of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop) would seem to have been exhausted.
It's easy to forget sometimes, in light of the weighty subject material (the violent colonial frontier, modern Indigenous social disadvantage, pre-contact tribal life and modern settlement travails) that has largely defined Gulpilil's acting career, that he is also naturally comedic.
Watch out for this specific weapon, the weighty, elemental material says.
I didn't want the book to feel heavy, because I felt that the book was heavy — I mean that the story was heavy, the material was heavy, the situation, the circumstances, all of this was very weighty.
