Sentence examples for ponderous lines from inspiring English sources

Michael Feast and Edward Petherbridge as the opposing counsels show how these things should be done by investing their ponderous lines with measured irony.

Ponderous, thundering bass lines stride through a brisk dance, and slabs of chilly string chords are offset by fiery, insistent brass figures.

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

DIANNE REEVES -- This jazz singer finally got around to making a small-group acoustic album, but "A Little Moonlight" (Blue Note) is nearly as ponderous as her other albums astride the jazz/pop fault line.

Such themes would have tempted a lesser poet into indulgent, ponderous writing, but "Soldiers Bathing" moves lightly on sinuous lines, its rhyming couplets kept supple by the varying line length and the ingenious syntax.

When the text is sung, the vocal lines are almost continually slow, sustained and ponderous.

Their second response was to fret about their bench of White House contenders a line-up of lightweights, shrill partisans and ponderous elder statesmen.Democrats sought a quick fix: candidates with sterling military records to reassure a nation at war.

It may have proved tougher than they expected, if only because Copland switches gears so frequently, putting supple string lines in the spotlight one moment, then shifting to ponderous wind and percussion figures the next.

India had taken too long to move its ponderous strike corps from the country's heartland to the front line.

Copying the successful formula recently adopted by Rangers at Easter Road, the visitors lined up in a 3-5-2 formation and Hibs were too ponderous in possession to find any gaps, allowing the Dumfries team their first away win since 31 January.

Where Ms. Unger murmurs her lines in a trance of romantic retrospection, Ms. Rowlands gives hers a ponderous Shakespearean gravity they don't deserve.