Sentence examples for as a ponderous from inspiring English sources

When a doctor's image did appear, he was generally depicted as a ponderous, bearded creature, with the depressed mien of an utterly useless man.

He knows now, from bitter experience, that if he indulges in flamboyant, over-the-top violence, American audiences and critics will talk about that more than about almost anything else: it will be taken seriously, as a ponderous moral issue.

A new recording on Deutsche Grammophon — part of the label's increasingly indispensable "20/21" series — makes the strongest possible argument for a piece that some critics greeted as a ponderous theological exercise at the time of its premiere, in 1983.

Unable to cope with the hygienic needs of Nariman's body, which is afflicted with Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis as well as a ponderous thigh-to-foot plaster cast, the siblings foist the old man off on the lone child of his union with their dead mother, a daughter named Roxana.

Created and performed by Ms. Bogart's Siti Company, "Hotel Cassiopeia" is itself a 90-minute assemblage of word-play, movement, video projections, dance and film clips that will strike some as a haunting theatrical dreamscape, others as a ponderous and abstruse whimsy.

This literary bugatelle could easily have become excruciatingly cute; I feared the worst early on, when Estrin has Musil -- the author of the exquisitely interminable novel "The Man Without Qualities," here amusingly portrayed as a ponderous bore -- refer to Gregor as "Herr Larva".

The C minor Prelude doesn't just move from fortissimo to pianissimo, it slows down as well, taking on a ponderous quality that calls to mind Mussorgsky's "Bydlo".

He tramped across Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings, marched across post-apocalyptic America in The Road, and now he's striding over Algeria in Loin des Hommes (also known as Far From Men), a ponderous adventure-drama that may also have doubled as a hill-walking holiday for the cast and crew.

Administration officials cautioned that while negotiators had finished their work, the draft accord still might be subject to changes as it moved through a ponderous process of final ratification by the Iraqis.

It's easy to laugh out loud at the sentences on the page, because they conjure up Groucho striking a ponderous pose as he says things like "The gods look down and laugh.

A ponderous electronic score accompanied her as, facing upstage, she grasped at something in the air.