Sentence examples for ponderous language from inspiring English sources

His use of admittedly ponderous language is designed to embrace not only criminal trials but also civil hearings and administrative decisions.

And in their command of Duras's willfully ponderous language (translated from the French by Barbara Bray), they bring authority to a work that could very easily tip over into pretentiousness.

A Library Journal review called it a "glittering mirror ball of a memoir," adding, "Despite the ponderous language and the need for an unabridged dictionary by the reader's side, McCourt's book brilliantly captures queer New York life just before mainstream pop culture came nipping at its heels to swallow it up".

Amid increasingly ponderous language that touts the unbreakable bonds of family and the creation of a unified Australian clan and flavors its patriotic soup with a carefully measured dollop of politically correct shame, the house at 1 Cloud Street emerges in the shape of Australia.

Yet today's lawmakers write and pass 1,200- and 1,400-page 1,400-pageed with ponderous language and laden with re-election pork.

In typically ponderous bureaucratic language, the letter said that they had concluded that allowing openly gay people to serve "is consistent with the standards of military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion, and recruiting and retention of the armed forces".

He moved to Paris and directed Don Quixote (1933), a ponderous three-language version of the novel, as well as several melodramas.

Yet James's writing sometimes sags under the weight of its own lyricism, drawn down by ponderous metaphors or portentous language.

They offered, in ponderous German – a second language to so many returned migrants – to help me re-mount my horse.

Lightman's language, too, becomes ponderous, as if weighted down by the burden of specificity..

TRAVELLERS on Deutsche Bahn, Germany's state-owned railway, are used to being addressed in a peculiar language peppered with ponderous English words and phrases, such as Neue Snackbox für Kids.