Sentence examples for ponderous thing from inspiring English sources

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Even less impressed was the Sunday Times's Jenni Russell, who called the book "a strangely uneven, ponderous thing, lurching from one subject to the next", with sometimes "weak" arguments and "leaden" prose – "there are beautiful and rousing passages here, but they are all quotes from other people".

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Among the odd and ponderous things that occur in the wake of Braff's unsuccessful suicide is that deaths of all types cease.

[laughs] Probably use a lot of that mid-70s material, but not the more ponderous things like 'Warszawa.' I tried that, and that was a bit yawn-making.

The Burkinabe anthem is a slower, more ponderous affair.

"Not unlike the central character in Therapist, I wanted to lift the lid off my melancholia, pick at the wound, gravitate to the heart of all things ponderous and sepulchral and be rid of it!" 'Therapist' will be screened at Rough Trade East, Old Truman Brewery, London E1 ( www.roughtradeeast.com) 8 June at 7pm. 'Therapist' is out on Monday with a CD of the original soundtrack.

"These ponderous tomes about liberty and things like that, there seemed to be a different attitude," Margaret Yonco-Hannearlyn early member of the online group, recalls.

What stops things getting too ponderous is Li's voice, a fragile warble that places her in the pop, not rock or soul, pantheon.

It's easy to laugh out loud at the sentences on the page, because they conjure up Groucho striking a ponderous pose as he says things like "The gods look down and laugh.

from back when I was a bright young thing, before I got ponderous and hoofy.

The new campaign, by comparison, is meant to "make light of things, not be so ponderous and heavy," said Mr. Schaefer, a longtime fan of Ms. Vreeland's.

But you needed a certain amount of patience, both for the ponderous self-regard with which the whole thing proceeded and for the way it dipped back to stock conventions the moment the action hotted up.

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