Sentences with phrase «lent heft»

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.

and the roasted squash and onions will lend heft to a simple green salad.

Despite appearances by tennis greats - chief among them John McEnroe and Chris Evert playing themselves - lending heft to the film, some of the tennis scenes are clearly digitally enhanced and Bettany, while a very fit bloke (in all senses, as we see a lot of him in the locker room) is not a decent enough player to pull it off.

Anthony Hopkins (Thor, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger) is really only in there to lend heft to his role to balance out the other elder thesps.

As Jim Newton wrote in today's LA Times, «Some endorsements matter, particularly when they surprise or lend heft to a candidate's arguments.

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As with most things in the Russian Federation, the presence of key government figures is what lends Open Innovations its heft.

They are not the first to criticize the proposed lines along racial grounds, but the caucus» criticism lends political heft as state officials negotiate the final boundaries for state legislative districts.

They lend strength, flexibility and stability to your daily twists and turns, whether you are rocketing a baseball across home plate or hefting a suitcase into an overhead bin.

His choices, an eclectic assortment of songs, lend the film emotional heft while controlling its tone.

Steering feels weighty, making the overall car seem heavier than it is, but that tends to lend a feeling of heft one might associate with luxury items and high - end build quality.

Its desktop processor lends it a performance advantage over rivals in its price range, but given the heft, weak battery life, and excess of heat, serious gamers can find better options elsewhere.

For most of the game, I'd bought into this concept and enjoyed the heft and solidity it lent Gwaul's existence.

Still, the presumed authority of the creator — «the horse's mouth» of Joyce Cary's great novel narrated by a painter — lends considerable rhetorical heft when artists are asked to describe their work, their influences, or their creative aims.

It still feels weighted enough to feel secure in your palm and lend it a sense of sturdiness, but won't fatigue you with it's heft.

The regular Mate 10's sharper 16:9 screen makes for an unusually proportioned device, albeit one that'll probably work well for YouTube and other casual video watching — it feels very wide in the hand, but the combination of a huge, standard aspect ratio screen with slim bezels lends a distinctive heft.