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
My perception is that many people feel that the adoption process in this country is ridiculously ponderous if not downright laughable.
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 Balzac
That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory.
More than once he keeps matters from becoming too ponderous, especially during a recital of crimes his daughter committed, long and surreal and made deeply funny by his air of consternated frustration.
The very slow action and scene progression of Rainmaker may appear overly ponderous, but is quite effective in conveying the desperation of the characters.
There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Looked slow, ponderous and still like a bodybuilder. The Sun
He was instinctive with his goal but before that, his lack of speed and movement encouraged a ponderous build-up. Times, Sunday Times
Garang had a broad impassive face; he cultivated a ponderous dignity that often cowed his opponents.
The book's long, ponderous descriptions of southern landscapes and sub-Faulknerian dialogue led some readers to suspect that the hero was in no hurry to see her again.
Given in his oscillations of mood to a lugubrious woebegoneness ” "He could be just the saddest-looking thing," remembers Roger Wilkins, one of his administration deputies ” Johnson while president brooded ponderously over how he was discounted by the intellectual left as a blustering boor. The Big Guy
Down goes the heavy lance; down goes the ponderous shield, suspended by a _telamon: "Ohitarge grant cume peises al col_!" down goes the plated byrnie, "_Ohi grant broine cum me vas apesant_" [Footnote: _La Chancun de Willame_, lines Homer and His Age
He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted. IN LOVE AND WAR
I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals. Chapter 29
In the course of this lavation, it was discovered the extraordinary flow of blood and brains had been produced by the infliction of a deep wound on the back of the head, by the sharp and ponderous tomahawk of an Indian. Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1
LaGamma's essay in particular is informative without being ponderous.
In the middle part of this one-movement work there is some ponderous yet colorful music, that features some very interesting and delicate writing in various passages for reeds, horn and celesta.
Being slow and ponderous, it always took him a long time to reach a new idea. Little Lord Fauntleroy
Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
There are hot keys (quick cuts) and more ponderous slow keys. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
The list of parrying beliefs is ponderous and long-standing. Ronald Thorpe: Become a Teacher
He has been a clumsy, flatfooted and ponderous at times. Times, Sunday Times
Religions are large, ponderous collections of memes, while a fad is a light, fast-moving (but short-lived) meme. Un-meme
Looked slow, ponderous and still like a bodybuilder. The Sun
He had a dense, ponderous style.
They are only intended to add ponderous weight to Eastwood's simple, plodding narrative, which might as well be a 45 minute episode of a cop show.
He had a dense, ponderous style.
He had a rather slow and ponderous manner.
Now the songs are longer, the beat is more ponderous and the message largely humorless.
Concrete abutments secured these timbers and linked the walls of stone with the huge gates opening into the millrace that fed the water to the ponderous undershot millwheel. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island
I'll box and battle him, and make him look slow and ponderous.
The fat woman's movements were ponderous.
The golem turned, shuffled into the V of green ribbon, shaking off clods of mold, jarring the ground with its ponderous tread.
She rarely strays down the path of ponderous self-importance that often blights this genre.
If the bulk of New England writing was ponderous, at least it was rarely trivial.
He had a rather slow and ponderous manner.
He stood aside and the great vehicle moved ponderously out of the garage.
Michael Wishart, a mason, stumbled over an uncut trenail and rolled on his back, and the ponderous crane fell upon him. The Lighthouse
Then, in the room where I slept, there was rich and ponderous furniture of the fashion of eld; the bed was draped and canopied with hangings that seemed full of spells and dreamery; and there was a mirror, tall, and swung between stately mahogany posts spreading their feet out on the floor, which recalled that fancy of Hawthorne's, in the tale of “Old Esther Dudley,” A Study Of Hawthorne
It is constructed well enough but moves ponderously and colorlessly to its conclusion.
The unperturbed swans, ponderously wallowing in the shallows.
This is an important but ponderous book, but if one can endure the Communist bombast, it is well worth reading.
ponderous weapons
The courts move in their usual ponderous manner.
The Nissan Patrol drives as it looks - heavy and a little ponderous.
It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic.
the play was staged with ponderously realistic sets
With slow ponderous pomp the English ceremony followed. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
As the galaxy ponderously precessed through the universe the searoom and nearby portions of the artifact became populated by a whole crop of little Candomblean assassins. Codgerspace
He strolled about with a ponderous, heavy gait, as if he were hugely bored with himself and the impromptu judgements he had to make. The Broken God
So saying, the Duchess rose, and the Major, bowing gallantly gave her the limb she demanded, and went off with her, 'haw'-ing in his best and most ponderous manner. The Amateur Gentleman
I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals. Chapter 29
In particular, _First_, We are to come to this service, with the most ponderous advisedness, and most serious deliberation of judgment, that may be. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
He apparently took keen pleasure in holding up to ridicule and in satirising, what he was pleased to call his ponderous pedantries, his solemn affectation of profundity and wisdom, his narrow-mindedness, and his intolerable and transparent egotism. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
Their passing was slow, ponderous, their movement limp. Times, Sunday Times
Osgood was a large, bearded portly gentleman who took life and mathematics very seriously and walked up and down in front of the blackboard making ponderous statements.
They are, every one, men of great wisdom and ponderous sagaciousness. Mistborn
The leap from the ponderous Maxim to the AK is great, and Chivers necessarily covers many significant weapons only briefly. A history of the gun that made history
Of course, once upon a time it truly was bloody and heart-wrenchingly brilliant, all its ponderous and doomy self-importance notwithstanding.
While it avoids some of the ponderous over-stylization that made Babel Tower draggier than its predecessors, I found it disappointing as a conclusion to the series. A.S. Byatt finally disappoints me.
The ponderous reporting style makes the evening news dull viewing.
Pears … pallid corpselike mounds with no flavor. (shudder) And then in some ponderously jiggling, translucent green or orange blob reminiscent of a bad scifi B movie. Weird Foods « Colleen Anderson
Those having the fewest dermal plates were most agile, while their more pachydermatous mates toiled in ponderous slow motion. Perseus Spur
In less than twenty seconds all four barrels were in position and, in another twenty, Hardanger, the sergeant and two constables, a pair on each side of the heavy ponderous cider-press, were starting on their back swing. The Satan Bug
Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot, he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine's cabin.
Woolley released three loud chords, and started on a ponderous version of the Sailors' Horn pipe.
On health and schools, Mr Latham often spoke in a ponderous bureaucratese punctuated by ‘we'll fix everything’ conclusions.
But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
After Jurassic Park, the monster looked so slow and ponderous it was pretty funny.
Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when some one turns the dial.
Their ponderous dullness fails to convey either the excitement of intellectual exploration or its importance.
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
Theology texts are often rather ponderous affairs, and not infrequently come in multiple volumes. Christianity Today
Jimmy Kelly isn't just overweight -- he's what they call morbidly obese, and his ponderous weight makes people stop, nudge the person next to them, and flat-out stare. Archive 2008-03-01
a ponderous stone
Magius, 1664 "; then, pell-mell, there were: _A curious and edifying miscellany concerning church bells_ by Dom Rémi Carré; another _Edifying miscellany_, anonymous; a _Treatise of bells_ by Jean-Baptiste Thiers, curate of Champrond and Vibraye; a ponderous tome by an architect named Là-bas
The belly straightened in the lines, the sheave wheels squealed, and the timber grating slid ponderously down the bank into the river. The Seventh Scroll
Optimism abounds but the car looks ponderous. Times, Sunday Times
Congress had managed to wade through the ponderous 200-page tome.
Despite a starry cast - Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver - the film's try at myth-making makes it ponderous.
The hymn has a heavy, ponderous, sonorous melody that goes all the way back to the chants of the fourth century.
Stansfield had lost none of his ability in winning the ball in the air but on the ground he was slow and ponderous and a number of defensive errors became attributed to him.
He stood aside and the great vehicle moved ponderously out of the garage.
Like The End Of Violence, it sometimes feels clumsy and ponderous, and seems unlikely to attract more than a cult audience.
There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamplight that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.
This opera is long and ponderous enough, and though there is much depth to plumb, the tempos, to me, must move along.
In contrast to part 1, which was a ponderous exercise in stage-setting and dramatic incipience, this film, directed by David Yates and adapted by Steve Kloves, is a climax worthy of the term. Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale
Gothic chansons de geste, the rough and ponderous mass becomes, as if by passing for a moment into happier conditions, or through a more gracious stratum of air, graceful and refined, like the carved ferneries on the granite church at Folgoat, or the lines which describe the fair priestly hands of Archbishop Turpin, in the song of Roland; although below both alike there is a fund of mere Gothic strength, or heaviness. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry
He looked to have timed it right but the horse squandered his opportunity with a ponderous jump at the last. Times, Sunday Times
Inquiry is a serious matter and should be done boldly, whether applied to innovation or ponderous theoretical matter.
There were huge, ponderous folios, and quartos, and little duodecimos, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and all other languages that either originated at the confusion of Babel or have since come into use.
“Well,” Skizzicks began slowly as his brain ponderously engaged, “My gram always said, ‘Good things come to those who wait.’” 365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
The Air Force was on the way to producing a ponderous aircraft with a variable-geometry wing.
In the corner of the large and sombre library, with no other light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its ponderous and ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that internal sorcery by which past or imaginary events are presented in action, as it were, to the eye of the muser. Waverley
a large audience, who, after having listened with an air of puzzled stupidity to the performance of the most beautiful _cavatine_ by the first singers of the day, would the next moment, one and all, be thrown into apparent ecstasy by a wretched ballad, wound up by the everlasting ponderous English shake. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
There are hot keys (quick cuts) and more ponderous slow keys. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
Upon completion, however, the film was met with mixed reaction partly due to its extreme length and somewhat ponderous nature.
Two ponderous policemen were conducting between them a woman dressed as if for the stage, in a short, white, satiny skirt reaching to the knees, pink stockings, and a sort of sleeveless bodice bright with relucent, armour-like scales. Whirligigs
They are huge, ponderous things that threaten to get tangled up and knock down anyone who comes near.
A ponderous misstep by the folks behind Family Guy, this unlikely spinoff is built around chubby, cheerful Cleveland Brown, who takes his son and moves back to his Virginia hometown. Beyond the top 10: The other premieres
The Canadair bounced ponderously off the dirt, somewhat crabbing, and her wheels hit again. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
He had a rather slow and ponderous manner.
So he waited, chafing, while Mervo examined the situation, turned it over in its mind, discussed it, slept upon it, discussed it again, and displayed generally that ponderous leisureliness which is the Mervian's birthright. The Prince and Betty
That we heard Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, saying it's too slow, it's too ponderous.
Now the songs are longer, the beat is more ponderous and the message largely humorless.
He looks so ponderous, so cumbersome. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly his deft karate skills have become slow and ponderous.
The encounter then developed into a pretty passionless and ponderous one for a healthy home crowd of 26,708, with Arena's side content to sit on their single-goal lead.
He was instinctive with his goal but before that, his lack of speed and movement encouraged a ponderous build-up. Times, Sunday Times
United have become a slow and ponderous team. The Sun
There's no point in comparing the graphic novel Road to Perdition with the respectable though somewhat ponderous movie based on it.
We have a natural tendency to place emphasis on matters which are ponderous, dull and uninteresting.
The style seemed to me to be excessively wordy, reminiscent of the more ponderous types of academic writing, or of the reports of Victorian antiquaries. Archive 2010-01-01
But Carter was shaken; his ponderous frame sagged as the gulping yells of the pigmies rolled out over the arena a vast screaming roar of amazed protest. "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 5
What saves Auster's story from ponderousness is the sheer verve with which he follows his narrator through the labyrinthine plot.
We write ponderously important books that no one really wants to read, or we write vapidly exciting books that expect nothing of their readers and less of their writers. MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2)
a ponderous burden
– The days of chivalry are no more: the knight no longer sallies forth in ponderous armour, mounted upon a steed as invulnerable as himself. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
He knocks loudly at the door, and it swings open with a ponderous creak.
On one hand they are quite serious, ponderous people, who approach interviews as if they are about to sit their finals at university. Times, Sunday Times
Slowly, ponderously this great armada moved across the Channel.
He looks so ponderous, so cumbersome. Times, Sunday Times
Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
One was a film about Eskimos building an igloo, which was pretty lousy, because there was a ponderous commentary which tried to tell you that Eskimos live in igloos.
Slowly, ponderously, and to no obvious purpose, bewigged lawyers gnaw away at obscure details, while judges occasionally interrupt them with observations of unutterable banality.
Only a ponderous blues lead by shaven headed bass player John Power temporarily broke the spell.
Vargas by name, having broken his sword in battle, tore from an oak a ponderous bough or branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his descendants from that day forth were called Vargas y Machuca. Don Quixote
Ellet had been first on the scene, and that gave him a considerable advantage over his ponderous rival.
Their thirty - and forty-thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles off-shore and manœuvred in ponderous evolutions; while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funnelled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks. Goliah
Government-by-committee and persistent bureaucratic controls lead to ponderous decision-making.
This was not a ponderous process but the kind of decision making that one might expect of a commander in chief.
As neither of the gentlemen was a cavalier, Corny and his friend were totally unsphered by being mounted, the former on a lean, draggle-tailed pony, whose back swayed beneath its ponderous weight as if it would break in the middle, while the latter received practical instruction in the original mode of churning butter on the back of a tall, gaunt, and hungry-looking animal. Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.
Edna was glad to be rid of her father when he finally took himself off with his wedding garments and his bridal gifts, with his padded shoulders, his Bible reading, his "toddies" and ponderous oaths. The Awakening
He had a pretty good beard going and he moved with a slow, ponderous deliberation, like he was reaching the end of a long journey.
On one hand they are quite serious, ponderous people, who approach interviews as if they are about to sit their finals at university. Times, Sunday Times
Coursers had none of the ponderous, muscle-bound massiveness that characterized the chargers of heavy foreign knights and made them look so clumsy and unwieldy.
Liberty is a ponderous and not-to-be-used-lightly abstract noun.
The nearest vertical post shattered in a cloud of steam, and the tower tilted at a crazy angle, before ponderously toppling on those poor souls beneath it.
Arthur Thatford was the slow, ponderous sort, and his sister little better.
A ponderous and formal man, he succeeded Walpole as first minister in 1742, but old, unwell, and with little taste for leadership, he merely presided for a year until his death.
a ponderous yawn
A large barrel-shaped man in a thick, brimless hat had stepped ponderously up to the bar, and was talking to Joe with glimmering eyes. Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck
The story is somewhat ponderous and overlong, but the WWI flying and special effects more than make up for it
The censorship stooshie may stir up some media attention, but it also creates a misrepresentation of a film defined more by ponderous pacing and pretentiousness than by gratuitous sensation.
This book, his greatest (though he claimed to prefer two of his more refined and ponderous works), is lovable enough, unsettling enough and dissatisfying enough -- altogether granular enough -- that I hereby make the following prediction: "Huckleberry Finn" will never overripen, nor grow stale, nor ossify. Books on Southern Humor
Their passing was slow, ponderous, their movement limp. Times, Sunday Times
It was pleasant to see their benign exultation in her powers of mischief, and the delight with which they exhibited the circumvolutory movement of the tower, the quick thrusting forth of the immense guns to deliver their ponderous missiles, and then the immediate recoil, and the security behind the closed port-holes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
The response of university authorities has been slow and ponderous.
My first glance showed me little save the ponderous outlines of an old settle, which jutted from the corner of the fireplace half way out into the room. The Filigree Ball
The first thing we all discovered was that the rather ponderous first names his parents had bestowed on him had been replaced by'Sam '. Times, Sunday Times
Databases were queried and a quick web search revealed that the ponderous error message was written in Polish.
a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness
His speech was slow and his manner might almost be called ponderous, but the advisers who whispered over his shoulder, during the course of the debate, attested the rapidity with which his mind operates and his skill in catching the points suggested. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
Hence the predisposition to attempt in the built temple the expression of infinite extent, and to heap the ponderous architrave above the proportionless pier. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
The jury remains out on whether the ponderous Blanc can replace the discarded Jaap Stam and the champions have leaked seven goals in the four games he has played.
With slow ponderous pomp the English ceremony followed. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Optimism abounds but the car looks ponderous. Times, Sunday Times
He was too slow, too ponderous; he had a big, heavy punch, but there was nothing spontaneous about him in the ring.
He could hear the sounding of matin invitatories; chimes telling a rosary of harmony over tortuous labyrinths of narrow streets, over cornet towers, over pepper-box pignons, over dentelated walls; the chimes chanting the canonical hours, prime and tierce, sexte and none, vespers and compline; celebrating the joy of a city with the tinkling laughter of the little bells, tolling its sorrow with the ponderous lamentation of the great ones. Là-bas
He looked ponderous when given a golden chance in the first half. The Sun
Three of them standing side by side, ponderous and immemorial. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
I surely hope the slave is within it," called the ponderous fellow to the audience, "as I do wish to recover her! Magicians of Gor
ponderous prehistoric beasts
He is talking, believe it or not, about an overdue, ponderous but worthy apparatus for punishing war crimes.
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
So often last season, those two provided the creative spark going forward, whereas the current side looks ponderous and predictable in the final third by comparison.
Beck's answers are slow and considered, thoughtful to the point of being ponderous.
Then I too am aware of a rather ponderous crashing about. Times, Sunday Times
He yawned ponderously, and with never a civil word lumbered off to his sleeping-place. Kim
This ponderous coin subserved a purpose which our penny does to-day. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
The first thing we all discovered was that the rather ponderous first names his parents had bestowed on him had been replaced by'Sam '. Times, Sunday Times
Huge arched fire-places; chimney-pieces carved with armorial bearings; oak tables absolutely joisted to sustain their vast bulk; bedsteads that would not have groaned with the weight of a Titan; -- the whole intended to oppose a ponderous resistance to the ravages of time and fashion. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted. IN LOVE AND WAR
One of the rules of radio: nimble and facile is preferable to ponderous and slow.
I want to hide behind you," Big Mike says, each word ponderously escaping from his mouth as if it's the last he'll ever speak. FanHouse
She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when some one turns the dial.
There's a bass hiding in there, peeking out from behind the overdriven rhythm guitars and ponderously formless solos like a shy mammal trying not to be seen.
As I said, the exhibition has set out deliberately, and even ponderously, to enlarge our image of Turkishness and to reveal far more about the history of these varied peoples than concentrating on Ottoman art would have achieved.
The superior fitness and organisation within the Malton side was always going to cause problems for a ponderous and ageing visiting side who had little to offer apart from a big front row.
‘A lot of big fighters are slow and ponderous, but I apply myself on my speed as opposed to power,’ he said.
Everything happens in unreal, slow and ponderous time. Treasure Basket Tuesday.
Perhaps Krishnan senior's ponderous waddle on the court could be excused.
Made from 100% old-vine Roussanne, it's rich and weighty but not ponderous — and its exotic aromas of flowers, fruits and spice simply billow from the glass. Ch
It is a worthy and comprehensive book, if a rather ponderous one. Times, Sunday Times
Theology texts are often rather ponderous affairs, and not infrequently come in multiple volumes. Christianity Today
The first thing we all discovered was that the rather ponderous first names his parents had bestowed on him had been replaced by'Sam '. Times, Sunday Times
He looked to have timed it right but the horse squandered his opportunity with a ponderous jump at the last. Times, Sunday Times

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