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  • n  the relative importance granted to something
    the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed
  • n  the property of being comparatively great in weight

  • She, and Metroland, finally make a good, subtle case for the bearable weightiness of middle-class being, for the higher morality of muddling through.
  • Although the warmth and humor in her work often camouflaged its weightiness, she was also angry, intensely private and political--a contradiction that drove such characters as .
  • Fuller relieved the magazine of such weightiness, turning YM into a primer on waist trimming and boy procuring--a junior Cosmo--and more than doubling its circulation.
News & Articles

  • 5 Reasons Everyone Sucks At Interviews
    Don't worry, it's not you, it's the strange ritual that is the job interview. Can it be fixed? Job interviews are strange rituals: both sides of the table are fidgety, anxious, alert to the weightiness of situation, and if you were showing up to be interviewed by Google, you might have been subjected to one of their synapse-snapping brain teasers. Which, as we discussed earlier this week , the ...
    June 28, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
Quotes

  • Ehud Olmert in Ynetnews
    Bibi (Netanyahu) understands the weightiness of pursuing the peace process,outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday night of his designated replacement.

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