heaviness

So the heaviness was not so much a literary conceit but something I wanted to talk about.

Something heavy and sad came over Abu Hassar and the heaviness of that thing came over me.

He saw himself as a deep-inside player in the intelligence world, and the heaviness of the responsibility was not sitting well.

And later, we want to see people in various stages of working it off, or at the very least, grappling with heaviness.

A heaviness as of unguessed tragedy lay upon all three, not only upon Tom.

It was also (p. 255) supposed valuable in cases of heaviness and obtuseness of intellect.

The varnish has a thicker and less dainty aspect, although of excellent quality still, but there is an impression of heaviness.

Do not gastronomists complain of heaviness in London after eating a couple of mutton-chops?

In spite of the sunshine and balm of the bright weather, a sense of heaviness and foreboding oppressed her.