Sentence examples for ponderous exercise from inspiring English sources

Exhibit B is "The Listener," which begins Thursday on NBC, a co-production with the Canadian network CTV that is a ponderous exercise in the paranormal.

In contrast, Mr. Tadie's biography feels like a ponderous academic exercise -- an exercise designed not for the reader's edification or pleasure but to showcase the author's own erudition and prodigious capacity for research.

A new recording on Deutsche Grammophon — part of the label's increasingly indispensable "20/21" series — makes the strongest possible argument for a piece that some critics greeted as a ponderous theological exercise at the time of its premiere, in 1983.

The French commander in chief, General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, proposed an advance against Germany through neutral Belgium and the Netherlands in order to have room to exercise his ponderous military machine.

The lobbying blitz effectively slowed the bill's progress, illustrating that lobbying in the European Union, where the exercise is downright ponderous and academic, can be just as effective as in Washington, even without the American traditions of campaign donations, golf junkets to Hawaii and lavish dinners.

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

Use of ponderous twaddle to obscure thinking.

It lacks, to use a ponderous word, gravitas.

(That ponderous last scene could use some leavening).

With a declamatory acting style and ponderous blocking, the work comes across as an intellectual exercise rather than a theatrical experience that engages both the heart and mind.

The exercise may offer its own reward, refining the viewer's eye and mind, but it comes with ponderous intellectual baggage.