Weighty traditions preside over every stage of a woman's life: her first menstrual cycle, marriage, pregnancy, giving birth, even marital rape.
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.
Her purpose in "Bolívar," however, is not to come up with weighty observations about Latin America's political tradition.
But both the Pakistani military and American officials have denied any connection to Mr Qadri, and he has also denied any such link himself.A religious moderate from the gentle Sufi tradition, Mr Qadri published a weighty tract against terrorism in 2010.
But "The Contract," set to live music by Michael Torke and performed by a cast of 36 adults and 18 child performers, addresses such weighty (and timely) themes as the struggles between right and wrong and tradition and the modern.
It had a more weighty view of history and a more serious view of the traditions that make innovation possible.
While Mr. Haitink drew radiant Impressionistic colorings from the orchestra, steeped by long tradition in the refined French sound, he also plumbed the score for its weighty, Wagnerian resonances.
The Washington children's book tradition goes at least as far back as 1895, when among his many weighty books for grown-ups, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a book for children with Henry Cabot Lodge, "Hero Tales From American History," six years before he took office as president.
