Middles can get ponderous, weighted down with their own importance.
from back when I was a bright young thing, before I got ponderous and hoofy.
What stops things getting too ponderous is Li's voice, a fragile warble that places her in the pop, not rock or soul, pantheon.
Happily, both in his lecture and in the interview, Mr. Piccione stopped before his musings got too ponderous.
'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.
"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.
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.
Though the skit gets a little ponderous in making a historical point, the discussion between Hiroko (Jennifer Ikeda), the young Americanized Japanese, and Monica (Fiona Gallagher), the blank, presumptuously white sorority product, is spot-on satire, wickedly presented by the two actors.
