Sentence examples for ponderous man from inspiring English sources

Their principal intelligence officer, Lt. Col. Maurice-Henri Gauche, was an amiable but ponderous man who peered at the world through a pince-nez and had an extraordinary affection for a tame parrot.

In September 1870, an idea crested in the mind of George Jones, a bespectacled, ponderous man in his late 50's who had recently become publisher of The New-York Times on the death of his founding partner, Henry J. Raymond.

Until, that is, ponderous CIA man Brendan Gleeson gives him a mission within that mission.

Daniel is a calm young man, reflective and ponderous where his brother, Davorin, is brisk and agitated.

He suggests making the market more ponderous and real: If a man wants to buy wheat, let him buy wheat and let the wheat be delivered to his door in great hoppers.

And the fighter in the ring seemed no longer a ponderous metaphor but simply a man simultaneously at work and at play, moving air molecules with his arms and legs — something a newborn baby does just as instinctively and effectively.

The old man gives us ponderous narration undercut somewhat by the sight of a Night Ranger LP in his apartment looming over the old man's head.

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

"Ultimately, this is a grand old man's book: meandering, ponderous and pedantic, full of narcissism and touchy self-regard," said William Dalrymple in the Sunday Times.

The composition takes a highly dramatic turn in the ponderous fourth movement, when the young man imagines that he has murdered his beloved and is about to be executed for the crime.

All right, in the novel she was a man; a rough-cut, ponderous, no-nonsense fellow, but a man for all that, and a throwback to my own distant days in the secret world when female agent-runners were a rarity; or if they weren't, I never met one.