Compared with reflex-driven arcade games like Pong and Space Invaders, text games provided ponderous pools of play, in which it was almost never clear what you were supposed to do.
It may not reinterpret ancient Hindu texts, contain lengthy, ponderous solos, or come with a lyric sheet that calls itself a libretto, but Skinner's follow-up to Original Pirate Material, his 2002 debut as the Streets, is undoubtedly a concept album.
But this is far from being a ponderous book about pondering.
When the text is sung, the vocal lines are almost continually slow, sustained and ponderous.
Reactions are slow and ponderous.
The ponderous, rattling Circle Line.
The thin text, set in long takes, is drawn out in a pace of lugubrious sluggishness as if to emphasize the expressive significance of inexpressive dialogue, the weightiness of silences, the ponderous sadness at the center of the film.
No more "the verbose and ponderous".
We drown in ponderous luxury.
Otherwise the going is ponderous.
