That fact nagged at Hawk's mind briefly, but was quickly lost in the thick of more weighty concerns.

The ancient monks and nuns had other, equally weighty concerns: pride, humility, compassion, discernment, patience, judging others, prayer, hospitality and almsgiving.

I had not really dared to hope that an invitation' from me would take you away from your ever so much weightier concerns.

About the theme and story she said, "such weighty concerns aren't the stuff of most mainstream genre movies."

In her obsession with Modi, Beatrice glosses lightly over more weighty concerns.

Of course, they all had weightier concerns than the issue of whether a $100,000-a-year suburbanite will have to give the state another $1.76 a week.

And exactly the right art happened to be at hand, still fulfilling its function as light relief from weightier concerns.

Then came 9/11, and with it far weightier concerns.

Why then should nature have visited our reason with restless aspirations after it, as if it were one of our weightiest concerns?

Now follow me, and take it not to heart if he be a little short in his speech, for indeed his mind is full of many very weighty concerns.