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Tag Name "Weighty" (38)

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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West
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I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.
Tony Vincent
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Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
Aristotle
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Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.
Tracee Ellis Ross
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I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, How as a Black woman did you do your work in NASA? They were misogynistic, and I'm sure you got called the n-word. She was just like, Well, that was the way it was. I just did my job. I wanted to do my job. She was just so humble.
Taraji P. Henson
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
B. J. Porter
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Seneca the Younger
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When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
Eustace Budgell
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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
Prince William
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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
Lord Byron
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Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.
Jeremy Collier
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Light troubles speak the weighty are struck dumb.
Seneca the Younger
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Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.
Oscar W. Firkins
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