1.   Even the black-and-white filming seems intended to inject dramatic heft into the program.

2.   Few tenors are ideal for the part, which requires a rare combination of supple lyricism, dramatic heft and French style.

3.   Once again, Woodard brings her remarkable family before us in a sequence of sketches that occasionally possess the dramatic heft of short stories.

4.   Rows of giant radio telescopes standing sentinel in the New Mexico desert wield more dramatic heft than any of the people using them.

5.   She has a gift for phrasing as well as the dramatic heft needed to triumph in her own fashion.

6.   Treat the operas like extensions of the bel canto heritage, and their dramatic heft is shortchanged.