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.
Heaven help us if they're all as tremendously weighty as on-demand player celebrations.
Nokia was eager to talk up its new pair of Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia smartphones earlier this month, but the company left one weighty question on the table: when can we actually get our hands on them?
Apart from the formal G20 summit on Thursday, Mr Obama has a weighty schedule of one-on-one meetings.
The Palestinian leader's diplomatic clout has rarely been weightier: on July 7th the UN decided by 124 votes to 4 to upgrade the Palestinians' observer status.
As well as making him vulnerable to the law, his irrepressible dreams of "one I loved /... sperm / saliva all one" forced a weighty taboo on to his soul.
The rebooted Battlestar Galactica, likewise, was no longer the cape-swishing space opera it was in 1978, but a weighty commentary on the war on terror.
Instead, the spotlight has been on other individuals: on the delicious backstabbing among competing Conservatives, on the struggles between the Corbynistas and their opponents and on Chilcot's weighty verdict on the failings of an earlier prime minister, Tony Blair.
Scripts would merge sex and swearing with weighty musings on mortality and morality, and on-the-money pop culture references.
