Sentence examples for get ponderous from inspiring English sources

Middles can get ponderous, weighted down with their own importance.

Just getting squishy, get boring, getting ponderous.

from back when I was a bright young thing, before I got ponderous and hoofy.

Happily, both in his lecture and in the interview, Mr. Piccione stopped before his musings got too ponderous.

What stops things getting too ponderous is Li's voice, a fragile warble that places her in the pop, not rock or soul, pantheon.

'He's got this ponderous manner so that even when he's being quite amusing, people miss it because they just don't see past that rather mournful delivery.' It is certainly true that he rarely shows extremes of emotion.

And it takes a long, long time to get going; the ponderous, stagey feel is no doubt down to the fact it is adapted from a play by Scottish writer CP Taylor.

"The artists I knew at that time felt pretty genuinely that if the process got too heavy or ponderous or worried, if you weren't having a good time at least part of the time, something was wrong," Mr. Nelson said about the groupthink that spawned his approach to filmmaking.

But the barbaric blasts become ponderous.

Being asked a favor always made Mother ponderous and powerful.

Wilson had been taking a few chances at the back for Celtic and was hugely fortunate to get away with some ponderous defending under pressure from Rodrigo.