weightiness

How To Use weightiness In A Sentence

• Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
• The design does its best to give a semblance of weightiness to something no bigger than an essay.
• the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed
• The weightiness of the paper, and thus of all there was to say, was acknowledged at last in a familiar knowing look, a half-smile. 'Bye, Nan, thanks for everything'
• The execution is sometimes clumsy and story threads occasionally fumble about but the sheer determination to go further with the premise, pushing beyond the barricades of mediocrity and aspire for at least some of the weightiness of the source material, that kind of relentlessness ultimately made it a success. Row Three » Review: Blindness - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions
• I tend to like those pieces best where that weightiness is continued through to the end — Grand Pianola Music, Nixon, Naive and Sentimental Music. Generalization of the day
• In contrast, the larger forces of, say, the Chicago Symphony in the Pearlman / Giulini recording, add power in the tuttis and a greater weightiness to the effect generally, but I am not sure that is really needed in this work.
• Both stories are a pleasure to read, though both also lack a difficult-to-pinpoint weightiness that I associate with stories that are both entertaining and profound -- the kind of weightiness George Saunders accomplishes at his best, where a story can move from being laugh-out-loud funny at one moment to deeply moving at the next. Archive 2004-10-01
• The name is apt, given the weightiness and power of the work performed here.
• The weightiness lifted from him and he shook his head. Arcane Circle