Sentence examples for as ponderous from inspiring English sources

Yet "The Sexual Life of Catherine M". is as ponderous as it is heavy-breathing, which is saying a lot.

A perennial, winning attribute of the Aldrich is that its shows are never as ponderous as their titles might indicate.

DIANNE REEVES -- This jazz singer finally got around to making a small-group acoustic album, but "A Little Moonlight" (Blue Note) is nearly as ponderous as her other albums astride the jazz/pop fault line.

Perched somewhere between hard-luck tale and inspirational story, "All She Can," about a high school girl trying to win a scholarship to the University of Texas, mostly feels as ponderous as the sport that might be her ticket out: powerlifting.

Van Gaal's side did not attain the level of control that their manager craves but, on the other hand, they were not as ponderous as they have been on occasions this season, playing with a higher tempo and, due mainly to the presence of Fellaini, more directness.

It's just huge, but not as ponderous as the giant Ford Excursion or the Chevy Suburban; handles predictably and pleasantly given its size; and has the solid, quiet ride you'd hope for but scarcely expect from most SUVs.

The WHO, notoriously slow off the mark when it came to Ebola, is widely regarded as too ponderous and bureaucratic to react with the speed needed to nip an emerging epidemic in the bud.

FLORAL MASKS HIDE THE BLUSHES OF SOME BULGARIAN BRIDES All the bride's artistic taste is centred in her head dress; be she poor or rich, she endeavours to make it as gorgeously ponderous as the strength of her head will allow.

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".

Although later Neoclassical architects, such as Robert Adam, were to criticize Kent's works as "immeasurably ponderous," his influence on them was considerable.