heaviness

Ellie Violet Bramley is a fashion writer who says the portrait carries a heaviness that appears at odds with the traditional role of a first lady.

Although Nani and Nurse P were of completely different backgrounds, they shared a common loneliness, which they were trying to negotiate with quiet dignity, devoid of the heaviness of self-pity.

“The heaviness of knowing what the path was ahead of him.”

Because Saturn was so dim, as well as so far and slow, it had “this heft and heaviness,” and became known in traditional astrology as the Greater Malefic, a planet of hard things.

The reptilian heaviness of their armor must feel rich on the textured stone.