Sentence examples for weighty words from inspiring English sources

Franklin's weighty words will be lent a special authority by the voice of Walter Cronkite.

His own promises, in turn — "we're not turning purple" and "our roadmap isn't changing" — are weighty words.

His own promises, in turn—"we're not turning purple" and "our roadmap isn't changing"—are weighty words.

If weighty words count, then the world has taken a giant step forward in the fight against "racism, discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance".

One of them, Nahum Barnea, writing in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, said that Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas "are returning home to their peoples with suitcases packed with large, charged and weighty words.

They all were about the impostor of an interpreter that appeared on the television screen at the Nelson Mandela memorial service in South Africa yesterday, who pretended to translate the weighty words of world leaders into sign language.

Rude, a Weighty Word At my Weight Watchers meeting, I sat in my customary seat in the front row.

"Gravitas is a word that pundits such as William Safire and William F. Buckley love to use," notes a questioner irritated by his inability to find this weighty word for "solemnity, high seriousness" in his limited dictionary.

While it may seem inane to make use of a weighty word like "recession" to form a playful neologism that embraces shopping, people are using it because it is fun to pronounce, he said.

Knowing the textual resonances present in this simple but weighty word, can I say, "Here I am?" The ability to answer this great call requires the cultivation of at least three different personal qualities addressed in the "Hineni".

Given that T. I. is in jail, serving an 11-month sentence for a probation violation, the song feels weighty, the words of someone looking to explain away — to others and to himself — the things that have landed him in such straits.