Sentence examples for ponderous style from inspiring English sources
Still, the ponderous style identified with tyranny retains an allure.
"Perhaps others would do well to emulate Ben's ponderous style on the greens," suggests Ed Stock.
Sometimes it feels like Vermes may have studied the ponderous style of his protagonist's memoir a bit too closely: for a comic novel, the opening chapters of Look Who's Back in particular can be a bit of a slog.
Yet while this book reflects a giant ego, and will not win prizes for its ponderous style, it is not entirely without merit for those with strength to plough through the pages.
(Too high at lunch, which proceeds at a glacial pace, with amuse-bouches and a slightly ponderous style of service that can transform the midday meal into a two-hour ceremony).
United are struggling to find a consistent way of playing, with Butt's philosophy likely to be at odds with the ponderous style of Louis van Gaal – who announced at his inaugural press conference that he had too much on his plate to take an interest in the academy.
A welcome note of irony and self-mockery suddenly found its way into Creighton's ponderous speaking style; his pronouncement that "at the end, every one of us will be tested, and every one of us will be found wanting" was delivered with deliberately hammy melodrama and offset with a nice little smile.
Hume was tireless, his ponderous public style betraying a quicksilver ability to analyse the issues.
The present-day city, sprawling over gently hilly relief, is almost entirely of new construction; most of the principal buildings in the centre are in the ponderous architectural style of the early Soviet period.
His view of the American Revolution was realized in America (1924), and his next-to-last film, Abraham Lincoln (1930), was another view of the American Civil War in a somewhat ponderous biographical style.
Mr. Yushchenko, 47, an affable former central banker with a slightly ponderous political style, has no natural political base, and Mr. Kuchma sits astride a powerful and well-financed patronage machine that enforces discipline from the national police down to the village chief.
