Sentence examples for Rather ponderous from inspiring English sources

On the first night, Jurowski's conducting increased in authority after a rather ponderous opening.

Both "Solitary," a solo performed by Mr. Bell, and "Stopgap," a trio, are terribly serious and rather ponderous.

Her duet with her lover, Silvio, sung here by the ardent baritone Christopher Maltman, was rather ponderous, not helped by slow tempos.

Delegates asked technical and often rather ponderous questions about compliance with the tax code, small business rates, the road fund licence tax disc, and so on.

In the often rather ponderous world of music journalism, Pitchfork isn't afraid to go for a gag or something a little out of the ordinary.

I only really knew about Lem because of Solaris, the masterful (and determinedly laugh-free) film by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, and the rather ponderous translation of the source novel that found its way to the UK in the 1970s.

Their perfect means was nimble drawing, rather than ponderous painting — which, in Dali's entertaining but toilsome images, did more to advertise the movement than to advance it.

As an essay on form — poetic and otherwise — it's a satisfying performance: light and quick rather than ponderous and self-occupied.

Even Opus 111, slightly more deliberate than the first two pieces, had a sense of new discovery rather than ponderous inevitability.

Like the women with the stones, she moved with great deliberation, yet her actions became ponderous rather than spellbinding.

The ending, which is meant to bring us face to face with the evil of unscrupulous politicians and the rottenness of power, is ponderous rather than shocking.