Sentence examples for ponderous step from inspiring English sources

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

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

But sometimes it takes more than the right strategy to break through a ponderous attempt to progress, and requires  individuals to step up and deliver in the eye of the storm.

Now the euro zone is trying to re-design itself even as it sinks—and every country is wondering whether to help others or save itself.Half-step by half-stepBy its own ponderous standards, the euro zone has changed course quite fast.

But, as is true of many political and cultural revolutions, the pace of progress is maddeningly ponderous.

The tactics creaked as painfully as the veterans and Fabio Capello's ponderous 4-4-2 would have made players lumber even if they still had a spring in their step.

Reactions are slow and ponderous.

The ponderous, rattling Circle Line.

We drown in ponderous luxury.

Otherwise the going is ponderous.

Just getting squishy, get boring, getting ponderous.