Significats de weightiness en anglès

Yes, sprightliness is compulsory there; so are weightiness, and fervour, and erudition.

I opened my box: then indeed I perceived the secret of its weightiness.

The effect of weightiness is obtained simply by a stupendous disproportion of language to sense.

Gappah's tone is far from the weightiness that the phrase "voice of Zimbabwe" suggests.

In a recent blog he complained of a "new weightiness".

There was a meaty weightiness to the fruit that seemed to beckon one to eat it.

But I will not examine further the trick of weightiness-ittakes up too much of my space.

And the weightiness of these considerations is not diminished when we relate them to the special needs of the day.

There was a slow sense of dragging, a weightiness that pulled at the spirit and began to saturate the bones.

Nor were the military reasons for the cessation of warlike operations of a nature to convince men of their irresistible weightiness.

Rollers of various weightiness lay about, and large heavy cans, and many bottles, and metal galleys, and nameless fragments of metal.

He emphasises the gravity of what's being communicated, and makes copious underlinings and hesitations to drive home the weightiness of the undertaking.

Goering-Eckart, a Lutheran church leader, expresses the Greens' pride in their weightiness, openly admitting their hope that the makeover will attract conservative voters.

Yet the mechanical strictness of the household, and the overpowering sense of the weightiness of life that it conveyed, was a revelation to Isabel.

They ought to clothe our voice with authority, to nerve our action by generous resolution, and to fill our counsels with weightiness and power.

What earnestness and weightiness,-hiseye never roving, without one swell of vanity, or one look to self, in any common form of literary pride!