Sentence examples for In ponderous from inspiring English sources

We drown in ponderous luxury.

Bach chorales in ponderous Busoni adaptations began the evening.

Five of the poems, read in ponderous voiceover, prompt dances tugged by longing and regret.

Today, Americans are lightening up their office wardrobes but want to live in ponderous remakes of period-style houses.

So Mr. Cook does not engage in ponderous Hegelian probings in search of a deeper order underlying apparent chaos.

In the tradition of movies like "Snow Falling on Cedars," the film, directed by François Girard, confuses pretty scenery doused in ponderous music with epic visual poetry.

The present-day city, sprawling over gently hilly relief, is almost entirely of new construction; most of the principal buildings in the centre are in the ponderous architectural style of the early Soviet period.

Strauch closely resembles other master-thinkers in Bernhard's subsequent novels: the central character in the surprisingly humorous "Wittgenstein's Nephew" and the architect-philosopher, another Wittgenstein stand-in, in the more ponderous "Correction".

Portentous in tone and ponderous in movement, it is a less distinctive and adventurous creation than the quicksilver miniature "Feu d'artifice," which has long been the most popular of Stravinsky's pre- Firebird" compre- Firebird

He drawls along in a ponderous manner like a hick farmer standing in a pulpit pretending to be God".

Burke's best seller was inspired by the death of his wife three years earlier in a car crash that is recalled in several ponderous flashbacks.