Sentence examples for ponderous book from inspiring English sources

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

Yet Callie's story doesn't get off the ground until halfway through this ponderous book.

Inside this ponderous book is a slim polemical volume struggling to get out.

"America is still debating whether and how to reduce carbon emissions, and a loud minority continues to insist that global warming isn't real or caused by man," writes Eric Pooley in "The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth" (Hyperion, $27.99), an illuminating if often ponderous book.

In addition to his Wonder Boeck (1542, 1551; "Wonder Book"), a ponderous volume of fantasy and allegory, he produced innumerable tracts.

It lacks, to use a ponderous word, gravitas.

Like crack-prone CD cases and ponderous phone books, traditional movie theater seats were designed for an era with few alternatives.

"This allows me to be serious about the references but not ponderous in the book.

Until, in the final turn of the plot, in a playful moment of dramatic genius that redeems this ponderous, often irritating book, Delia's heart is broken and she unties the knot for good.

The decades after Johnson's death gave rise to a competitive industry of memoirs -- the ponderous Hawkins biography; books of anecdotes and letters from Mrs. Thrale; and, of course, the "Life of Johnson" from her jealous foe, Boswell.

The Baratheons have been the ruling family of Westeros from Episode 1 to the present, which is a funny thing because there aren't any left, unless you count illegitimate Tommen and Gendry the blacksmith a composite of the books' ponderous litany of Baratheon bastards last seen rowing away from Dragonstone in Season 3 and unlikely to return any time soon.