Sentence examples for how ponderous from inspiring English sources

But how ponderous the score sounded: a marriage between the rhetoric of minimalism and the rhetoric of intellectual melodrama.

He has only signed on loan for two months, so Arsenal fans have precisely that length of time to forget about how ponderous Marouane Chamakh proved in front of goal, or how irritatingly inconsistent Gervinho's finishing has been, and savour Henry linking up with Robin van Persie.

Looking at the charming sketch of a young woman with a self-deprecating smile as she looks down, one would hardly guess how banal Baron Gérard's ponderous portraits commissioned by the establishment could be.

My consistent answer to the ponderous question of how WikiLeaks transformed our world has been: really, not all that much.

With such an agenda of real news, how one dreaded seeing some ponderous network commentator interrupt the reporters to claim his 90 seconds of air time.

But this is far from being a ponderous book about pondering.

I do have my reservations; I've never been able to believe in Mr Rochester and his ponderous teasing courtship, no matter how hard I try.

I remember Evan Dorkin talking about how once upon a time there were ponderous piles of Peanuts books that all seemed to reprint the same material.

We are soon a long way from that red shirt, with its promise of partygoing, and Gray is running the risk that attends every pensive director: if you like to ponder people, in the half-light of their motivations, how do you stop your film itself from turning ponderous?

He describes "How to deal with Norman Mailer?" as the "first ponderous sentence" of Buckley's obituary for the novelist.

Mr. Struckmann stopped well short of mounting the Madonna statue during the first act's ponderous but potent "Te Deum" sequence; how much more effective were his pious touch of the figure's hem, followed by a too-familiar brush of its cheek.