The contrast with Brahms's F minor Quintet could not have been greater, with the weighty tone of pianist Stephen Kovacevich adding to the turbulent passion.

The French soprano Anne-Sophie Duprels, who made her company debut as Violetta, sang with an appealingly warm, weighty tone and finely tuned technique, and moved with grace.

They would wear ties and well-cut suits and talk of literature and cinema in weighty tones.

"Today's weather soldiers use radar, satellites, climate data and computers to provide final reports to troops," he explained in a weighty tone.

But on tenor saxophone Stitt had a sweeping, easygoing tone and time-feel, weightier and more even than Charlie Parker's sound, to which his was often compared; you may find yourself attached to his sound.

Mr. Fogelberg's songs tended to have a weighty tone, reflecting on emotional issues in a serious way.

The bourdon's heavier construction and square-walled pipes gives it a more pronounced and weighty tone.

Doriot Anthony Dwyer, who sat next to Mr. Gomberg for 35 years as principal flutist in Boston, said she eventually acquired a platinum flute, which has a weightier tone, to match him.

"Benjamin, come hither," began Mr. Franklin in his usual stern and weighty tone.

Ladies and gentlemen," he began-in weighty tones-"it is not unnatural that I should have been more interested in this murder than perhaps any one else-for personal reasons which will no doubt have occurred to you already.