But if the novel fails on any level, it is in the absence of moral weight at the story's heart.

The objection at the time was to the lack of "moral weight".

The moral weight of such a step, if not the economic, will usually force businesses to change their policies.

Few others have produced landscapes that match his in the sense of moral weight.

Do they carry more moral weight than those buried skulls?

While only a small minority of Serbs practice religion, the church does bear some moral weight.

This letter will have moral rather than legal weight.

But for many, the moral weight assigned to such an action can be more complicated.

It is a work of strange originality and moral weight.

"In other words, if I turn up dead eventually, the moral weight of the issue will be on my side."