Sentence examples for it's ponderous from inspiring English sources
"A Delicate Truth," John le Carré's new thriller, is anything but delicate: it's ponderous, heavy-handed and obvious — everything that his wonderful early Smiley novels, which traded in moral ambiguity and psychological nuance, were not.
It's ponderous; after a while you can't help wondering what the hubbub is all about.
But, on the whole, it is ponderous, rarely funny, and, indeed, hard to watch.
It is ponderous, notwithstanding the attempts of later, clumsier neighbours to make it look ballerina-like by contrast.
In congested stoplight-to-stoplight traffic it is ponderous.
But this is not to say it is ponderous, not at all".
Even cold salmon can make you feel hot, because it is heavy, sometimes ponderous.
Mr. Gaines's ponderous dances take the notion of positive thinking too far.
No problem with securing the line-out, but when they shoved it they were held and when they were forced to move it they were ponderous and duly slammed back in the tackle.
Schiff went on to say, "If you play this piece at Beethoven's tempi, then it's not ponderous anymore. . . .
But while Carter's book is ponderous, Tadié's is a thrilling journey through the development of intellect and sensibility.
