Sentence examples for ponderous for from inspiring English sources

Some of Mr. Vesely's concepts seem too weighty and ponderous for artistically satisfying realization.

Heston was perfectly cast as the ill-fated hero, although Ben-Hur's religious transformation rendered the film's final portion ponderous for some.

Most political art is bad art and worse politics... Art is both too sensitive and too ponderous for the rough and agile ends of civic controversy.

They were far too sharp and aggressive for a Saints team who were made to look ponderous for much of the match.

Though it's impossible not to admire Ms. Goldstein's efforts to write a Gothic suspense story that's also a novel of ideas, her characters remain too two-dimensional and her storytelling too ponderous for the reader to ever become fully engaged.

In an age when political oratory is often reduced to sound bites and when candidates strive for the artificial empathy of television talk-show hosts, it would be easy to dismiss Mr. Forrester as too ponderous for prime time.

This is just right for Mr. Cave, who in his time has generated enough ponderous creepiness for a hundred men.

Designers responded by abandoning dark Victorian interiors and ponderous furniture for lighter pieces and asymmetrical forms.

Yes, that is ponderous baggage for what is otherwise a piquant and simple story about estranged brothers after their mother's death.

After ponderous apologies for traditional faith failed to repulse the onslaught of deism and atheism, traditionalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Burke and Coleridge, abandoned unwieldy dogmatic demonstrations in favour of the short, provocative essay.

With just a wave of the hand, they can transform Barber's ponderous Adagio for Strings into a mile-a-minute gambol, or Rossini's bracing William Tell Overture into a slow-motion funeral dirge.