The equation between functional and artistic principles, and between ponderous machines and hand-held devices is most dramatic in the scenes shot from the center span as its rotates open, taking in the passing landscape as it goes.
It is the sort of concern that can easily become ponderous in the wrong hands; in Halfon's, it is funny and revelatory.
England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.
Zac Goldsmith on TV; Zac Goldsmith walking down washed-out and deserted London streets; Zac Goldsmith giving speeches in slow motion, his emphatic hand gestures made so ponderous you can almost hear their groan and creak, while he mouths words that don't really matter.
Van Gaal's side did not attain the level of control that their manager craves but, on the other hand, they were not as ponderous as they have been on occasions this season, playing with a higher tempo and, due mainly to the presence of Fellaini, more directness.
So we filled in the ponderous waiting time, while the spick-and-span hands wheeled and blew their geometric way about the field.
On the one hand, it aims for a certain ponderous gravitas.
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.
Philosophy should not be ponderous, difficult, and unpleasant, as it was in the hands of the Scholastics and the modern metaphysicians.
The head on such a figure was typically shaped like a dome or a vertical cylinder; the almost featureless torso showed the familiar Polynesian forward arch of the back but placed no emphasis on the buttocks; the legs were ponderous, carved rather than bent, and the arms were slight, with the hands resting on the stomach.
