Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. From LearnThat.org. [Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)]
A ponderous stone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A ponderous speech. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They're all very slow and ponderous, which is odd as everyone says its an upbeat happy album. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine -] Reference
"I surely hope the slave is within it," called the ponderous fellow to the audience, "as I do wish to recover her!". From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
A Mighty Heart - apparently Pax Thien found it 'ponderous', with. From Wordnik.com. [Hecklerspray] Reference
Dexter William: Have to agree with the British Press that Cross is "ponderous" in that game. From Wordnik.com. [The Roar - Your Sports Opinion] Reference
"ponderous" Carter had made 17 tackles, a massive number in arguably the most difficult defensive position in rugby, without missing one. From Wordnik.com. [The Roar - Your Sports Opinion] Reference
Obama plowed along in his ponderous professor mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debates] Reference
Too often, the military has become ponderous and risk-averse. From Wordnik.com. [Now, Flexible Force] Reference
The ponderous cook at Cuspidora's side repeated her question. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
He seemed to feel an actual ponderous weight on his young shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Your shoulders spread the width of the planet, like ponderous wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Flight] Reference
After more ponderous speeches, Burr and Hamilton finally faced each other. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: The Hamilton-Burr Feud Continues] Reference
The following morning the Wildcat gorged himself on a ponderous breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
The chauffeur threw in the gears and swung the ponderous machine to one side. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Should we be destroyed by the collision, and our ponderous world cease to be? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
He says, well, back off this ponderous literary stuff, you know, and write a thriller. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting 'Prey' On The Streets Of The Twin Cities] Reference
Gingrich's last book, "" Window of Opportunity, '' was a ponderous exercise in techno-babble. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction: Newt Comes In From The Cold] Reference
Sometimes in attempting to appear above politics he can come off as ponderous and unprepared instead. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Obama’s Dream Machine] Reference
The man who was expected to be ponderous and dispiriting has been fleet of foot and sometimes dazzling. From Wordnik.com. [A Smashing First Act] Reference
In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
This is what happens when what should be a dynamic public service is entombed in a ponderous welfare state. From Wordnik.com. [In the name of purity, public funds are wasted on the rich] Reference
At this desk half a dozen clerks and visitors sat, with ponderous and soiled books spread open before them. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Their old man's slouch, how prissily they hopped, their squeaky calls, their ponderous natures made us laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 49: Soaring In Kiwiland] Reference
Rumsfeld is said by close colleagues to have become frustrated with the sometimes ponderous military mind-set. From Wordnik.com. [Evil In The Cross Hairs] Reference
Soul-concerns are concerns of the highest nature, and concerns that arise from thoughts most deep and ponderous. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Before I had time to master this question with all its ponderous possibilities, my step-mother observed obligingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
The first phase, called induction, used chemotherapy to break up and slough off the ponderous tumor in Peter's chest. From Wordnik.com. [Serenity Shattered] Reference
Perhaps that's another reason why democracies can be ponderous systems when a crisis looms and swift action is required. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Geldard: America a Leading Democracy?] Reference
He stumbled into name-dropping exercises that were meant to boost his national-security credentials but sounded ponderous. From Wordnik.com. [Trail Mix: 'Sparks of Life'] Reference
The various admen hired by the campaign made fun of the ponderous, research-driven, tone-deaf messages handed down from on high. From Wordnik.com. [INNER CIRCLE] Reference
These were my criteria: Juiciness Nothing tedious, nothing ponderous, nothing that could tempt me to put down the book and check my e-mail. From Wordnik.com. [The Short of It: Five Books You Do Have Time For] Reference
A ponderous man he is, and substantial, for his weight is commonly extraordinary, and in his preferment nothing rises so much as his belly. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
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