Henry's thoughtful but academic and ponderous way of answering questions is starting to wear Orr down.
His ponderous way with black oil paintstick isn't much in evidence here, except for a single drawing installed in the front window.
"There is a huge gulf between the weighty, ponderous way that buildings are made and the way the theatre works," says Dillon.
Each is likable, in spite of Pat's ponderous way of describing her experiences, and in spite of the fact that she double-crosses Camisha.
He seemed shy in polished social settings, Ruble, the institute's director at the time, said; when he attended the annual dinner, "we literally would write his remarks, and he would read them in a very ponderous way.
It was an accident of politics that put Peter Burleigh in the American chair this fall when the Security Council grappled in its inimitably ponderous way through crises in Kosovo and then Iraq.
As this extremely toothy creature wriggled in his hands, Mr. Mol started talking, in his somewhat ponderous way, about a paper he had published on piranha-bite incidents, complete with color photos of amputated toes.
Mr. Schnabel's sculpture may be bombastic, but it is also playful in its own ponderous way, and though it seems raw on the surface it is, as his paintings usually are, unfailingly tasteful and pleasing to look at.
It takes quite a long while to boil down to that, what with the size of the Price family tree, the amount of unadulterated chat that goes on between branches, and Ms. McMillan's ponderous way of switching narrators without having really distinct narrative voices.
But that, as Eagleton remarks, "is really just a ponderous Teutonic way of saying, Wow!" It does not constitute a meaning.
