Sentence examples for ponderous weight from inspiring English sources

The concept cannot possibly carry the ponderous weight of glum import that Nolan loads on it.

They have the implacable presence of ships' prows or big trees but without the ponderous weight.

A ponderous weight of authorial omniscience and compassion conveys the reality — single, one-shot, claustrophobically limited — of life itself.

His music, unsurpassed in elegance and wit, can survive perhaps anything but the ponderous weight to which it was long subjected.

It's the way that screen icons age to become more vivid versions of themselves, and Mr. Kitano's evolution has demanded that he reduce himself even more, given that he's channeling Clint Eastwood through Toshiro Mifune with a little bit of Buster Keaton thrown in to keep the mix from crashing under its own ponderous weight.

It's the way screen icons age to become more vivid versions of themselves, and Mr. Kitano's evolution has demanded that he reduce himself even more, given that he's channeling Clint Eastwood through Toshiro Mifune with a little bit of Buster Keaton thrown in to keep the mix from crashing under its own ponderous weight.

Middles can get ponderous, weighted down with their own importance.

And why would such an overly exposed audience embrace a work of such heft, especially as almost every edition carries the added weight of ponderous academic commentary?

Among its treasures are the priceless Begram ivories, pocket-size carvings that in art-history terms have a weight as ponderous as the Bamiyan colossi.

Nor does the vehicle feel ponderous, despite the extra weight.

Levying an 8% money rate on a trustworthy commercial borrower is tantamount to handicapping a race horse by forcing him to carry a ponderous amount of extra weight in the saddle.