The Shipping News deals with weighty issues and is intellectually intriguing, but I found myself uninvolved from start to finish. |
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Would his superiors be angry with him if they found he had made so weighty a decision in their absence? |
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Businesses rarely rely exclusively on quantitative research to make weighty marketing decisions. |
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It has been found that the smoking behaviours of best friends and peers have a weighty influence on adolescent smoking habits. |
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Of course, classification, region, and variety of grape are all weighty influences. |
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By the time they reach the thirties they face a myriad of weighty decisions about career, home, love, marriage, and babies. |
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These posts are then aggregated or collected into another weighty post, which itself might have the potential to push forward the debate. |
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Apart from handling weighty matters of state, Jawaharlal had to deal with issues of domestic politics. |
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These lacquer-coated woodless pencils are shockingly beautiful with a solid, weighty feel. |
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As we zippered our coats and said our goodbyes, every gesture felt extra weighty. |
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For the past couple of years, the appearance of Christmas lights and festive decorations has heralded the arrival of a weighty travel anthology. |
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All day, there are thoughts both weighty and light dancing through my head. |
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This kind of playfulness adds lightness to weighty intellectual questions about art and culture. |
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Alpacas and llamas abound, as do viscachas and water birds such as ducks, flamingos and weighty gulls. |
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However, the principals' lyric voices are not, on the face of it, weighty enough for the roles of Leonora and Manrico. |
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For those who like to ponder weighty questions, this portion of the book will be an intellectually satisfying read. |
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Yes the furnishings are rustic and weighty but there's no tequila to be had as you can only drink wine and beer here. |
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The paint mass is weighty and roughly textured, but the visual effect is minimalist. |
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A short photo stop soon cooled us down, before we pushed on up the hill carrying the weighty bags of tackle and camera gear. |
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It is a weighty tome which is stimulating and challenging to read but is, in the end, disappointing. |
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The topic of conversation then moved onto the less weighty issue of the day's soccer results. |
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The atmosphere is relaxed and cosy, ideal for a quiet conversation on weighty world matters or passing trivialities. |
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She used texturizing shears to avoid blunt, weighty ends, and a ceramic flat iron to straighten and separate. |
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None of these scenes and extensions would have added anything weighty to the final cut of the film. |
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Here you get a weighty complement of storyboards, production design drawings, and photographs. |
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It would read even faster had he paragraphed the dialogue out, but then again, that would have doubled the length of an already weighty book. |
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From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness. |
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Just as long hair, sandals and creative angst have typified the poet, poetry that is dense and inaccessible is considered weighty. |
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It serves as an excellent first point of contact with such a consequential and weighty concept as reconciliation. |
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It also has the weighty responsibility of inhibiting the conversion of body fat back into glucose for the body to burn. |
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A caption reminds us of the weighty importance of Peter's dangling question from the previous ish. |
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A more weighty tripod will feel more secure and give smoother, more fluid use. |
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At issue are weighty concepts like press freedom, freedom of belief and, of course, human rights. |
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Behind them trails the Jumbo Queen, feted by her weighty ladies-in-waiting, waving gaily at the crowd. |
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They are often populated by solitary horses which simultaneously transmit ghostliness and, conversely, surprising weighty presence. |
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In that effort her approach was weighty and dark, probing and technically assured. |
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This weighty volume is a delight, destined to be found gift-wrapped beneath many a Christmas tree. |
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Full and potent but not too weighty, Montes Alpha Chardonnay 2003 exhibits a peachy, grapey nose with a slight effervescence. |
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It was made of Abyssinian steel, and was three cubits long with a weighty bulge at one end. |
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His silences often precede a weighty thought though I doubt the rattling in his head ever quiets. |
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There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine. |
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With increasingly weighty school bags and heavy workload after school, very little free time is left for the kids to enjoy their childhoods. |
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I admit that I proceeded with a heavy heart to read this weighty tome, but confess that I found each chapter pleasantly surprising. |
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Unlike the delicate quadrant, the mariner's astrolabe was a thick, weighty instrument typically made of cast bronze or brass. |
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He was tall and a bit on the thick weighty side, though it wasn't hard to see that he was also quite muscular. |
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Comparatively speaking, handheld devices are delicate, weighty, and bulky due to the glass screens. |
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He never truly liked a heavy meal nor anything that was either too rich or weighty. |
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Her lyrics deal with weighty subjects but she can be as flippant as the next joker. |
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It is significant that this weighty information is not revealed to the reader. |
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In fact, the film looks set to deal with some pretty weighty subject material in relation to all of its characters. |
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There are some hefty themes for what proves to be a weighty, worthy, serious-minded film. |
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Notebooks and files were conspicuously out on the table as the leaders prepared to chew over the weighty fare of international politics. |
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We commit to continuing to publish the serious scoops, the weighty investigative pieces and the incisive political analysis. |
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The rules are taken seriously, and there are weighty consequences for breaking them. |
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It is perhaps irresponsible to address a subject that currently has so many weighty associations and deal with it using only anecdotal evidence. |
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The Institute of Medicine has a distinguished history of publishing weighty reports on important subjects. |
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It is one of the very few books to deal with the weighty issue of science versus religion. |
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For years Irish politics dealt with weighty issues such as unemployment, closing the poverty gap and education for all. |
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You are taken more seriously because you have got a fairly weighty qualification behind you. |
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It feels like it's an incredibly weighty decision, that you can make a huge mistake. |
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Several of our intrepid heroes are forced to make some rather weighty decisions. |
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So, if you're looking for a weighty tome for a Christmas present, to block a draught or to belabour rival fans, you'll want to enter the competition. |
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Women beware women is one of the messages of this thought-provoking book, which combines dramatic events with weighty chunks of philosophical musing. |
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Nails range from the smallest, thinnest brads to large, weighty spikes. |
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This weighty political analysis lurks behind a more innocuous form. |
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There are no weighty issues to ponder when the credits roll. |
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There are the serious programmes, where weighty professors talk straight to camera and pronounce their conventional view of great kings and queens. |
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She tackles weighty subjects with a naive sensibility and faux-innocence, but skillfully avoids dumbing them down. |
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The poet can't therefore presume to condescend to him, because he and his peers have guarded the very bourgeois freedoms that enable his son to be a weighty thinker. |
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One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too. |
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He likes to feel the heft of a weighty woman perching on his lap. |
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Layers of moss and decay give a funereal quality to this weighty hall. |
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Similarly the Buddha taught that human individuals are not to be seen as isolated from each other, but as conjoined to each other in a weighty and consequential relationship. |
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Throughout, these weighty matters are examined candidly and wistfully, with the wisdom that only age and inwardness can bring. |
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David Mitchell's ambitious and weighty first novel follows a daisy chain of characters through every time zone and across the gamut of individual experience. |
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In politics this can be dangerous, because it encourages basing decisions, no matter how weighty, on whatever popular opinion momentarily prevails. |
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The weighty dish is a re-creation of what York's aristocracy tucked into in the 14th century, while the lower classes commonly ate watery pea soup. |
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After reading her views on the debate, it makes me wish I had something weighty or political to say, but I'm a little diffident about the whole thing. |
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The sharply tailored blazer and weighty jewelry that cling to her body hints at the dominant personality she possesses. |
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Given Yeltsin's snap Hogmanay decision to quit it perhaps isn't surprising that Aron's weighty bio was caught short when it came out in hardback earlier this year. |
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Creating a massive weighty object that not only flies, but hovers and takes off vertically is an amazing innovation, a marvel of modern engineering. |
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It is feather-light when parking but weighty and secure at speed. |
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Nearly every song on A Treasury is a show-stopper, and the track selection is fine, spotlighting Drake's weighty insights and limning the various complexions of his character. |
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Well, the implications would be many and weighty, both for the diminished USA and for the new entity. |
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In walked Sam seconds later, lifting her weighty suitcase undauntedly. |
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Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence. |
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In 1648 events rendered weighty the debating point whether Hammond derived his authority from army or parliament. |
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Cousin's lectures take their initial cue from the weighty treatises of a remote, recondite thinker named Immanuel Kant. |
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Also, both hydrogen and helium would require weighty cooling systems to keep them storably liquid. |
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The first thing to be undertaken in this weighty work, is a watchfulness over the failings and an inlargement of the dominion, of the Senses. |
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Judge Les Spittle said the gun was a convincing weighty replica but effectively a cap gun incapable of firing anything. |
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Newspaper editors despair of weighty articles, called thumbsuckers, and yearn for letters filled with spirit, grace, and humor. |
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Yet these weighty intertexts are often used almost improvisationally, in a spirit of serious play. |
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Then line the dough with parchment paper and top with a weighty substance, such as dried beans. |
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See, a Nobel Prize nomination is so weighty that it gets a guy onto the same podium circuit as his victims. |
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The delegates were charged with a weighty responsibility to represent the self-determining will and the best interest of your state nursing association. |
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The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic. |
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Beatrix deploys her Dutch coquetry upon her beatifically schnappsed husband by clapping his shoulder with her weighty hand and casting him an oeillade beneath her thick brows. |
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