Sentence examples for most ponderous from inspiring English sources

Barbery's sly wit, which bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations, keeps her tale aloft.

Those kinds of songs here ("Prom Queen, Paradisese") are among the most ponderous.

And "Coppertone" is the album's most ponderous song, with convoluted lyrics and a tone that wavers between seductive and self-loathing.

But the Cure softened once it got to "Faith," one of the most ponderous albums in its catalog, and a record that set the template for a decade-plus of elegiac grimness.

An Indonesian sambal will brighten the most ponderous meat; a rich coconut-milk-and-peanut dipping sauce will turn the leanest fish voluptuous; soy-and-lime is, by turns, dark and bright.

It was also the longest and most ponderous, bogged down in so much dark import that you trudged out of the theater with the impression that there were lead weights in your shoes.

It fought the way most roes do: ponderous and reserved, yet always as if she could splinter your rod and melt your reel whenever she felt like it.

Three minutes later Atalanta made the most of more ponderous Everton play, extending their lead via Cristante's finish, and Koeman and his men must have been relieved to then hear the whistle for half-time.

The current crop includes Kishwar Desai's 'Witness The Night', which won the Costa first novel prize; George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda', which I'm re-reading skipping most of the ponderous faith/Jewish culture bits; and Colin Thubron's 'A Mountain in Tibet' – he's such a writer, and my late pa got halfway to Lhasa from Delhi in 1944, when he hadn't enough wartime leave to come home in.

Since his work was achieved thanks to a life-long study of primary sources leading to conclusions that at times saw him swimming against the tide of standing historical paradigms it is no wonder that his most acclaimed work is ponderous and written late in his career.

After Pakistani militants attacked Parliament in 2001, India's ponderous strike forces, most of them based in the center of the country, took weeks to reach the border.