ponderous

How To Use ponderous In A Sentence

• But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
• Morris Goldsworth came out of the central room accompanied by a well-suited, ponderous young man in his twenties, marking his catalogue. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
• After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie.
• His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_. Balzac
• Their thirty and forty - thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funneled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks. Goliah
• I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
• Then I too am aware of a rather ponderous crashing about. Times, Sunday Times
• Foreman was thought to be slow and ponderous heading into his title fight with Frazier.
• As per the vehicle's steering and handling, it is generally ponderous and has a slow response to steering inputs.
• From most silly novels we can at least extract a laugh; but those of the modern-antique school have a ponderous, a leaden kind of fatuity, under which we groan. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete