Sentence examples for ponderous pace from inspiring English sources

Would a new version be allowed to build at a ponderous pace?

The prime minister has faced criticism over the ponderous pace of the Foreign Office rescue of stranded Britons in Libya since he left on a four-day tour of the Gulf to strike energy and defence deals.

At 631 pages, The Deliverance of Evil by Italian Roberto Costantini (Quercus, £14.99, translated by NS Thompson) would have benefited from some trimming, but this sprawling tale of personal and political corruption, expediency and revenge engages, despite the sometimes ponderous pace.

Despite its gentle – some might say ponderous – pace, this politically charged tale of a Blair-like former prime minister and the man brought in to help write his memoirs proves the film-maker's ability to create gripping cinema without succumbing to the action-movie tropes that have infiltrated the thriller genre in recent years.

Other songs on the album, particularly Go Away, 10 James Orr Street and Being Cold, essayed a devastatingly bleak, eerily beautiful brand of mid-1980s pop, all sugar-high vocals, a ponderous pace expressing the heaviness of existence and chord changes of the most exquisitely miserable kind.

Overall, People, Places, Patterns flows with a slow, ponderous pace that echoes the simultaneous wonder and loneliness of nomadism.

Theoretically it makes for a nice change, but chills are few and far between; trying to find your missing mountaineer brother is a tedious process, due to cumbersome controls and absurdly ponderous pacing.

Krakauer describes an agonizingly slow pace of movement, having to stop and "draw three or four lungfuls of air after each ponderous step".

Brimstone is hampered somewhat by its ponderous, doom-laden pace, and resultant bloated running time, but remains an intriguing slant on the spaghetti western: could Koolhoven have invented its Dutch equivalent – the Edam western, perhaps?

For most of the game, however, Ronaldinho, 33, looked off the pace and ponderous as the ageing South American champions were upstaged by a team of run-of-the-mill Moroccan league players.

Pacing feels ponderous in the middle sections.