Sentence examples for ponderous rules from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Nowhere in the ponderous rules of the United States Senate is there any reference to the Mae West hold, the chokehold or the rotating hold.

In sum, courts are grappling with the new war-labor paradigm but have ponderous methods to rule on claims.

Each week we will pre-ponder the ponderous and de-hype the hype.

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

For this building, set on an elongated corner lot, he was forced to grapple with zoning rules that appeared to mandate a ponderous, blocky structure.

Side by side with the old appeared new buildings in the modern, functional style of the 1920s, in the ponderous, often overly ornate style of the later period of Joseph Stalin's rule (1945 53), and in the high-rise concrete and glass predominant since the 1960s.

The crux of the drama occurs far into the first act – the opera's opening is ponderous – when a young priestess, Adalgisa, comes to Norma to confide that, against the rules of the faith, she loves a man.

In this, he reminds me of Matisse, whose late work is his least ponderous: the scissor cuts of paper, often in leaflike shapes, are also a sort of rule-based art.

The ponderous, rattling Circle Line.

Reactions are slow and ponderous.

We drown in ponderous luxury.