Sentence examples for ponderous chapters from inspiring English sources

They remain overshadowed by the ponderous chapters that have gone before, and they feel like an incongruous coda to what is an otherwise lugubrious and flat-footed novel.

In a ponderous final touch to his chapter on the Soviet Union, Mr. Schorr describes visiting the grave of Khrushchev, the man who once threatened to bury capitalist America, and observing, "So, Nikita Sergeyevich, in the end they buried you".

But despite the excitement around drones as the next chapter in aviation history, there is also growing frustration about the ponderous speed at which the new automated technology is being integrated into the national airspace.

Because Harry is often in an irritable mood and spends much of the opening chapters brooding about his problems, "The Order of the Phoenix" gets off to a somewhat ponderous start.

Sometimes it feels like Vermes may have studied the ponderous style of his protagonist's memoir a bit too closely: for a comic novel, the opening chapters of Look Who's Back in particular can be a bit of a slog.

And her earnest, often didactic discussions of sociological implications (the final chapter is titled "Take-Home Points for the Homeward Bound: Lessons of New Domesticity") grow ponderous.

Accordingly, while "Top Secret" offers a cogent, informative peek into a historic chapter in 20th-century journalism, as an evening of theater it is static and a little ponderous.

The ponderous, rattling Circle Line.

Reactions are slow and ponderous.

City have been very ponderous.

We drown in ponderous luxury.