Heaviness

Hand in hand, heaviness becomes lightness.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

The heaviness in my heart has intensified, making me feel even more down.

All of Kahn’s buildings share a common solidity and heaviness. Experts say they are very different from the works of other famous architects of the period. These architects preferred light and airy buildings. Their weightless-looking structures were mostly made of glass and metal. Kahn used stone and concrete to make monumental buildings. Many of his structures look more ancient than modern.

This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.

Firſt got vvith guile, and then preſeru'd vvith dread, / And after ſpent with pride and lauiſhneſſe, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauineſſe.

By ſo much the more ſhall I to-morrovv be at the height of heart-heavineſs.

[W]hen man ſigheth, (as the Apoſtle ſaith) as burthened vvith inviſcerate intereſts, longing to put on this pure ſpirituall veſture of Filiall love, this kind of heavineſſe of ſpirit, may be ſaid to make his love vveight in heaven; […]

The ſtrangeneſs of your ſtory put / Heavineſs in me.