Sentence examples for ponderous issues from inspiring English sources

Nationally, the Republican Party is wrestling with ponderous issues of ideological purity, the Bush administration's legacy and its own future leadership.

He knows now, from bitter experience, that if he indulges in flamboyant, over-the-top violence, American audiences and critics will talk about that more than about almost anything else: it will be taken seriously, as a ponderous moral issue.

AMERICAN ENCOUNTER about the writer's winning of an essay-writing contest in Japan, and the prize, two ponderous Army-issue batteries from the American Occupation army… On August 16th, the day after the anniversary of the defeat, a Japanese athlete performed well in a swimming championship held in Los Angeles.

The New Yorker, October 15 , 2001P. 123 AMERICAN ENCOUNTER about the writer's winning of an essay-writing contest in Japan, and the prize, two ponderous Army-issue batteries from the American Occupation army… On August 16th, the day after the anniversary of the defeat, a Japanese athlete performed well in a swimming championship held in Los Angeles.

However, RCTs tend to be ponderous and take a long time to complete.

Conditions may improve for the long haul, but ponderous progress on major issues could bring more pain in the short run.

"Conditions may improve for the long haul," Conrad de Aenlle reported, "but ponderous progress on major issues could bring more pain in the short run".

Similarly, the first Roman issues, aes grave (heavy bronze), were ponderous cast pieces, the heaviest actually corresponding in weight to the libra, the Roman pound.

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

The big issues become the pretext for a ponderous movie that has much of the baseline wonder leached out, but, in return, gestures toward bigger questions.

Sometimes the epic prose is heavy and overwrought (there are a lot of flames issuing forth and a few too many ponderous constructions: "They sat in the room called Heartbreak and they drank of the soma, but they were never drunken").