Sentence examples for feels ponderous from inspiring English sources

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Pacing feels ponderous in the middle sections.

Elsewhere, though, much of the writing feels ponderous.

What seems robust and warming in the bleak cold now feels ponderous and unwieldy.

Given the space of a two-parter, the story feels ponderous compared with Victory Of The Daleks.

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In a less charming wrapper, the message might feel ponderous; here it's heartfelt and inspiring, even more so because the book is more than seventy years old.

Although the convertible is a smidge heavier than the coupe and sedan, and its chassis isn't quite as rigid, it has a light and eager feel that makes other General Motors cars feel ponderous.

The "fictional" snippets can feel ponderous; the writer, anxious about ideas of consciousness and mortality, says, "I suppose I'll have to burden my characters with more ruminations on this subject".

And that sense of duty can saddle the work with a reverence that makes it feel ponderous or didactic, drained of the very thing that moved them to write in the first place: imagination.

— Mr. Chen's direction feels more ponderous than usual.

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.

This affair of the heart feels both ponderous and lightweight, and it detracts not just from the sober business that has brought him to her city but somehow from the moral tribute that "The Water Diviner," old-fashioned as it is, makes such an effort to pay.

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