Sentence examples for ponderous on from inspiring English sources

However, if these aims sound ponderous on paper, the reality on stage is anything but.

While the United captain came in for criticism, United's midfield was also identified as being too ponderous on the ball to create chances.

Recovery took a long time and he seemed ponderous on his return, but Daniel Passarella, who by then had taken over as coach, retained his faith.

He needed a response after the defensive capitulations against Watford and West Bromwich Albion but West Ham were ponderous on the ball, predictable in attack and vulnerable whenever Southampton broke forward.

www.lincolncenter.org January "AS OF NOW: RANDY WESTON AND DANILO PEREZ" The world premiere of two new works -- Mr. Weston's concerto for Regina Carter, and a work by Mr. Perez, who's busy making complex pan-American music these days that can be a bit ponderous on record but blazing in performance.

"We may not always agree on matters of state," I said, not in my own voice, but in that loud, ponderous one I knew just as well.

I've gone from the ponderous national "on the ground" book tour to a virtual book tour; from newspaper features to a Facebook fan page; from an author photo in a press kit to an author video on YouTube; from print advertising to an iPhone app.

Ms. Jacoby doesn't leave liberals out of her analysis, mentioning the New Left's attacks on universities in the 1960s, the decision to consign African-American and women's studies to an "academic ghetto" instead of integrating them into the core curriculum, ponderous musings on rock music and pop culture courses on everything from sitcoms to fat that trivialize college-level learning.

The signs of decay are everywhere — and I mean everywhere — at the Blenheim School in Durban, South Africa, the setting for Jon Robin Baitz's early play "The Film Society," which opened in a welcome if slightly ponderous revival on Sunday night in a Keen Company production on Theater Row.

But McCaleb's wasteful work and ponderous ruminations on the nature of good and evil are a real drag on Connelly's driving narrative style.

"Perhaps others would do well to emulate Ben's ponderous style on the greens," suggests Ed Stock.