She believes the trouble with films about Sept. 11 in general - they include Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" (2006) and "The Guys" (2002), which starred Sigourney Weaver - are too serious, "overly ponderous about the topic," she said.
Early on, I was very ponderous about accepting awards and I became more lighthearted about it the more awards that I won.
Reclusive and ponderous, with about 60 times the mass of the proton, such particles, called WIMPs (for weakly interacting massive particles), could account for some or all of the mysterious dark matter that astronomers believe far outweighs the galaxy's glowing stars and gas.
But this is far from being a ponderous book about pondering.
Chelsea have been pretty ponderous in this half - passing extremely slowly.
Coupled with Danny's narration, the mood is pensive and ponderous; this is a film as much about watching as remembering.
When she attends a press conference with a famous novelist (Jean-Pierre Melville, enlisted by Godard to emulate the kind of chats they had late at night about women), he is more interested in flirting with her than answering ponderous questions about his ambitions.
Furtwangler was a ponderous naif about the extramusical purposes he unwillingly served.
And there was a ponderous debate about the nature of evil – is it moral or biological?
As this extremely toothy creature wriggled in his hands, Mr. Mol started talking, in his somewhat ponderous way, about a paper he had published on piranha-bite incidents, complete with color photos of amputated toes.
