"I chose them for their airy, graceful, feminine feel to balance the weighty, masculine presence of the columns," Cleve explains.

On the stage of the Palace of Congresses, he was a weighty presence, an unexpectedly earthy orator and a figure of integrity.

But there they lay, and somehow their weighty presence helped.

They had long felt uncomfortable in calling so weighty a presence "Elmer," and now, with a pride of their own in his new dignity, they called him "Doc."

I can feel your weighty presence even now, young Rees.

Nevertheless, his images all have a weighty presence.

The Truth had a slight build but a weighty presence.

A weighty musical presence, it is in this case also a symbol of dynasty.

Blues singer Greg Allman is put to good use as the big bad dealer at the centre of events, a weighty presence always just out of reach.

He'd been deposited firmly into a straight-back chair, trussed not by bonds but by the weighty presence, the will, of others.