A book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : He carried a ponderous burden on his back. ,a ponderous dissertation. From Dictionary.com.
I guess endless and banal ponderousness loves company. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman has his way with the Democrats.] Reference
The boat's driver spoke with pot-induced ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
But you forgot "pondering the ponderousness of ponderosity.". From Wordnik.com. [Artist’s Statement Generator] Reference
By the way, does your ponderousness create its own gravitational field?. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Girl "Safe And Asleep" In Hillary's 3 A.M. Ad Is Supporting...Obama!] Reference
The 2-1/2 hour roadshow edition we saw succumbed to ponderousness all too often. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash I: April 26-May 2 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
Rather than high academic ponderousness, it employs deft synopses and punchy polemics. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, October 31, 2006] Reference
It might account for his ponderousness and his seriousness that he has had to struggle. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times] Reference
This slows the action down even further, at times to the point of outright ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [Stoppard Is Back on Broadway] Reference
He would emphasize the Cockney in his voice when he said these things, perhaps to defuse the ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [EVENING’S EMPIRE] Reference
A panning shot of Twain's bedroom takes too long: "We've been hoisted on the petard of our own ponderousness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story Of Jazz] Reference
The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
They were slow, and moved with the clumsy ponderousness of a man used to getting his way through sheer bulk and not through skill. From Wordnik.com. [The Robin And The Kestrel]
Slowly, with the ponderousness of tremendous weight, the two halves slid apart just far enough for the crawler to enter comfortably. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
As always when he passed the Parthenon Shoe Shine Parlor, a one-story hut which beside the granite and red-brick ponderousness of the old. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
Evidently, we hadn't thought this through properly, not Jessica Mary with her affinity for florid words or me with my natural ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference
One of the most learned of the group was George Chapman, whose verse has a Jonsonian solidity not unaccompanied with Jonsonian ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Similarly, FASB's ponderousness and frequent inertia have given principles-based, international financial reporting standards a growing role. From Wordnik.com. [Filling In The GAAP] Reference
That's not to say "Hercules" isn't far more fun than the civics lessons of "Pocahontas" or the ponderousness of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.". From Wordnik.com. [Unholy Hades] Reference
The plan was undoubtedly sound, but the general's want of balance caused him to overweight it, until its own ponderousness was its destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Look, no one writes about the Senate -- or, indeed, politics at all -- without an extraordinarily high tolerance for endless and banal ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [Lieberman has his way with the Democrats.] Reference
Spielberg's movie is set right now, and it has none of that ponderousness -- but it's the same bland now that sci-fi enthusiasts seem to think we live in. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Sontag & Kael: Lost in Space] Reference
Hurtha then regaled us with his poem, which, truly, seemed to capture something of the inscrutability and ponderousness of the institution which had inspired it. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenaries Of Gor]
“Verily,” you reply with equal ponderousness of pronunciation and novelty of citation, “in leaving home one learns life, yet a journey is a bit of Jahannam.”. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
In the son's case, the father's ponderousness had turned to gravity. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
The 2-1 / 2 hour roadshow edition we saw succumbed to ponderousness all too often. From Wordnik.com. [Scrubbles.net] Reference
He believed that ponderousness and extension were qualities indispensable to eloquence. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrent Entre Naranjos] Reference
Fancy and fresh expression attracted Lewis; ponderousness and absurd muddle drew his scorn. From Wordnik.com. [GotPoetry.com News] Reference
David Saunderson was the embodiment of ponderousness; he spoke as slowly as he moved his cumbersome limbs. From Wordnik.com. [War-time Silhouettes] Reference
The Cape wagons, or, at all events, those of a few years back, undoubtedly shared the ponderousness of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
But at nineteen Thomas had attained a height of six feet five, with a proportionate breadth and ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim] Reference
The whole idea of improving the town and earning a steady income is great, but as usual, it's let down by pointless ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [Destructoid] Reference
They're people who want some of the ruggedness of an SUV but are turned off by the size and ponderousness of traditional off-roaders. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The great fellow came abruptly to his feet, not with the ponderousness of most giants, but with a panther-like agility and smoothness. From Wordnik.com. [A Pagan of the Hills] Reference
"I see no reason, Peter," said he with judicial ponderousness, "why you shouldn't reach a ripe old age. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play] Reference
Instead, with Germanic ponderousness, he titled them MEN OF PRUDENCE WHO CAN BE EXPECTED TO ACT IN THE INTERESTS OF THEIR NA TION. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
Me Generation sci-fi ponderousness at its best!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-14] Reference
“Why, against your ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
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