Sentences with word «heft»

"Heft" means to lift or hold up something heavy using strength, usually to test its weight or to assess its quality or size. Full definition
Talking of the emotional heft of objects, one of the things that I found immediately moving about the film is the sense it has of a world where images are scarce, and where something like a rosary bead can be invested with so much longing.
«The Grand Budapest Hotel» is a superb comedy, but it still lacks the emotional heft of Anderson's greatest work.
Aside from a negligible added heft of 0.1 pound and the fact that buyers are paying an extra $ 130 for the 3G capability (compared with Wi - Fi - only models), there's no downside to owning a 3G - compatible model.
Creamy Sausage Queso Dip: For a little more heft in your queso, protein it up by adding sausage.
Also keep in mind that with heft comes durability.
Some have weird bulges with a bit of heft in it.
Though the flatter Moto Z is smoother all around the sides, the extra heft adds a chamfer on the Z Force.
Firing both our imaginations and our own core emotions (particularly Joy, with some Sadness thrown in for heft), the brainy script for this Pixar beauty is matched by its animated splendor, a go - for - broke design featuring remarkable imagery, and its humanist reach, which extends to both family and (imaginary) friend alike.
It has as much dramatic heft as a leaf.
The increase in grey divorces and the complex nature of people's finances at this later stage of life has driven the growth of financial forecasting — which can be useful for a number of clients, Toronto - area family lawyer Reesa Heft tells Law Times.
Keanu Reeves also has received the usual, reflexive, bored response, but he's put on some weight and now seems to be an actor with more heft as a loner cop.
I would sacrifice a little heft for a serious boost in horsepower.
But the opinion at least gives heft to NeighborCity's legal claims.
To stick to one page with your resume, you'd need to shrink the images to thumbnails so small they wouldn't provide enough detail to be of any value, while still potentially breaking your format and adding enough heft to the file size to make the document clunky.
Even the spaceship dogfights struggled to impress me, owing to a distinct lack of heft from the available weaponry, which feels tinny and machinegun - y rather than thumping and deadly, like a Star Wars laser cannon - and more or less the same as when I last played Star Citizen two years ago.
A smooth - riding suspension and natural - feeling heft for the electric power steering system leant to comfort on rougher roads or in stop - and - go traffic.
However, you'll begin to notice the extra heft when holding the tablet one - handed for long periods of time — as often happens when you navigate with one hand and support the tablet with the other.
From the extra weight, giving the controller a nice heft when holding it, to the impeccable build - quality and rubberised palm - grip that fit into each hand perfectly — the whole package feels tremendous.
Back when humans exchanged gold coins, you could keep track of your net worth by hefting your purse.
The electric power steering gave the wheel a rock solid feel at highway speeds, and offered good heft at lower speeds.
While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.
But while DiCaprio painfully conveys Glass» turmoil and intense resolve as he goes after the odious fur trapper John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy, in the film's best performance), there's an absence of emotional heft at points.
Anyone who saw Gordon speak at the Fabians on Saturday or who watches any of Tony's old conference speeches or PMQ outings knows just how exceptional they were; how they combined serious political and intellectual heft with spirit, passion and wit.
But it's also a complete blast, and it manages to have a surprising amount of emotional heft without being heavy - handed.
Her smudgy, monochrome records of the crumbling high desert terrain spanned CCA's expansive walls but lacked heft on first viewing.
If the parent who has custody of the children denies access to the grandparent, Heft says there are only two options: the elders can go to court and have a judge order it, or they can convince the parent to go to mediation or family therapy.
Though flat sides and a bit more heft make the Nexus feel pretty secure, it's hard to deny how nice the new Note feels compared to even the Note 5 that came before it.
Support the Girls, a title that's a nod to both the oversexualized nature of its setting and the resolute bonds of sisterhood packages itself as a campy workplace farce, but it packs a stageplay's worth of dramatic heft into its barebones runtime.
However, Lenovo's decision to use a fiberglass frame and a glass back has led to the phone weighing 149g, which gives the phone a reassuring heft while not making it seem too heavy at the same time.
Throttle response isn't too hyper and steering has minimal play on center before tightening up with satisfying heft tuned into the wheel.
Mandate reviews like this have been undertaken by governors every decade of so, but Christie has put more heft behind this one with an executive order last spring that ordered the review.
GMC would do well to give the Acadia that system: while the Acadia Denali isn't intolerably slow, the car needs a firm push of the accelerator pedal to move its 4850 - pound heft at a clip that many competitors would shrug off.
The Blue Mountain Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Carol Heft from March 1 — 26, 2016.
It's quite clear that most of the phone's considerable heft comes from packing in that 2,870 mAh battery in such a tiny frame.
This is feel good dramedy for adults, a rarely served platter of real heft, spiced up with zesty gags that will leave nothing short of a good taste in your mouth.
We've often complained of drivers — and automakers — who confuse steering heft with feel.
When his endorsement comes, it will have additional heft for both Democrats.
The study gives some much - needed heft to the idea that microbes matter.
Karishma initially began working at Heft Law as a Law Clerk.
In family law matters, financial disclosure, knowledge and information are the most valuable tools that parties have when trying to settle a case, Toronto - area family lawyer Reesa Heft tells Law Times TV.
A large consensus paper was recently written by a bunch of these individuals who have the intellectual heft on the social science kind of research that is being done.
In American politics, voting blocs are most effective within a larger plurality where their bloc vote carries heft (ie, Hasidic communities in Brooklyn and Rockland County).
This news came from a study that examined the medical records of nearly 1.8 million Danish women — and the huge sample size lent heft to the findings, several of which stood in stark contradiction to commonly held beliefs about modern hormonal contraception.
Vivid images from the exhibition permeate the entire volume giving visual heft to essays by Jones; Carbone; Connie H. Choi, research associate in the Arts of the Americas and Europe at the Brooklyn Museum; and Cynthia A. Young, director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program and associate professor of English at Boston College.
This pesto pasta recipe gets heft (and a side of veggies) from the addition of broccoli to the purée.
Do not, for instance complain, as I once heard a son say to his father, that moving him from bed to wheel chair was like hefting «dead weight.»
It turns out the extra heft comes almost solely from that new 3D Touch display.
Its nimbly - paced action gains heft as soon as Pam, Trent and Duncan arrive at a summer house to hear bon vivant (and drunk) Betty (Allison Janney) giving them a hearty welcome.
While these stalwarts regularly do often pass their Bechdel Test with honours, thankfully, there are, along with Maren Ade's inclusion, two other «femme cinéastes» in competition, who will bring bona fide female voices to the 2,500 - seat Theatre Lumiere; and both bring with them a reputation for bringing heft and uncompromomising originality to their art.
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