Word: hefted
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...perfect child who once wanted to be a priest is grown up and, despite the Italian cut of his suits, still looks as if his mother dresses him in the morning and tousles his hair before sending him off. Critics think the soft-spoken Stephanopoulos has insufficient heft to speak for the President; yet this brooding, dark presence has a quiet authority. His power whisper makes people lean into him, like plants reaching toward...
...never excuse settlement of disputes by other than peaceful means." The same cautious message was conveyed to Saddam in a letter from the President and in public statements. Officials maintain the signal was meant to stop any aggression, but by then Saddam needed a stick with the heft of a two-by-four: a direct warning of U.S. military intervention. Even so bald a threat might not have deterred him, but it was never issued. American, European and Arab leaders just did not believe he would invade and had not begun to contemplate what they would do in response...
...fear is fear itself") and lends a certain credibility to his painful prescriptions. Much of what he proposes is philosophically charming, but the sacrifice he posits would be borne unequally, and his numbers are as questionable as those of his rivals. His pie charts and bar graphs convey heft, but when studied carefully, the bottom line relies on so many dubious and unspecific assumptions (how, exactly, are health-care costs to be contained?) that his repeated assertion is effectively refuted: it is not "just that simple...
Sportswise, that was a dynasty with substantial heft. It lasted the better part of a decade and led to three triumphs in the Super Bowl. As a result, Walsh first had the cloak of greatness draped around his shoulders. Then, as the championships accumulated, the purveyors of hyperbole whisked it away and replaced it with the heavier mantle that bore the title "genius." The fact that Walsh on occasion used words such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial...
...heft, but does he have the vision...