1.   And the cumulative weight of the previous weeks adds a delicious resonance to everything Tony says.

2.   After all, the socialist utopias collapsed under the cumulative weight of their internal contradictions.

3.   Each such incident was tiny in significance but their cumulative weight grew to be unbearably oppressive.

4.   His images, sacred and profane, have the cumulative weight of a mystery play, reverential and comic, with a melodramatic edge.

5.   The cumulative weight is what, quite frankly, concerns me.