The weighty points his work makes about the universe — that it's slowly winding down as the Big Bang becomes the Final Sigh — tend to relieve our despair, not deepen it, by letting us in on the cosmos's greatest gags: for example, that the purpose of the Creation was to make itself perfectly unmanageable and purely unintelligible.
A nine-hour interrogation followed, in which the ministers delved into some weighty points of theology.
He learns about the early experiences of his grandfather, a taciturn man with mental illness in his own family, and about Okawa's path to radicalism, tracing their lives to their brief but historically weighty point of intersection.
The brand has made the transition well but the case throws up enough issues to generate weighty learning points.
The long weighty pedal point of the opening seems intent on keeping the movement firmly grounded, but midway through, a soprano and baritone give it flight.
A minute and a half later, all 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds of him skips off the court, light as air, with a typically weighty line: 11 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 7 steals.
Moreover, as Dr. Joyce Slater, a guest blogger on Weighty Matters, later pointed out with respect to the Ritz crackers incident, daycare workers are often greatly overburdened and undereducated when it comes to making the decisions required of them under Manitoba's well-meaning nutrition policies.
There‑ after it was only ever an ordeal in the sun, every point a weighty affair with the potential, it seemed, to be career defining.
This of course begs a fairly weighty question: is there a point to an app ratings system that Apple and Google won't use?
Inspired by such weighty titles as The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, Cory Bortnicker and Brett Molé have built a "generator" of 25 Gladwellian book covers like the above Blank, Yoga: How Hot Trends Make People Buy Books, Vague: The Power of Generalizations To Impress The Bored and (my personal favorite) Monster Cocks: The Last Book You'd Think I'd Write.
Jones supporters will rightly point to his weighty intellect and the probable change in perspective his new position would have yielded.
