But this is far from being a ponderous book about pondering.
But you needed a certain amount of patience, both for the ponderous self-regard with which the whole thing proceeded and for the way it dipped back to stock conventions the moment the action hotted up.
"We are the people, you know," said Mr. Murphy, taking the lead in an animated, garrulous midday gathering that amounted to an antidote to all the ponderous focus-group preenings of this campaign season.
It takes quite a long while to boil down to that, what with the size of the Price family tree, the amount of unadulterated chat that goes on between branches, and Ms. McMillan's ponderous way of switching narrators without having really distinct narrative voices.
Lithuania needs a huge amount of reform chiefly to speed up the economy and sort out the ponderous and at times corrupt bureaucracy.
The ponderous, rattling Circle Line.
Reactions are slow and ponderous.
We drown in ponderous luxury.
Otherwise the going is ponderous.
This can make "bismillah" ponderous.
