The passes zipped around with first-time conviction instead of the multi-touch ponderousness of many recent games.
But Mr Blair frets that Mr Brown will be cruelly exposed by his ponderousness and caution when he becomes prime minister.
James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, wonders how 80 inspectors in a country the size of France, with a terrorised population, will have any hope of getting at the truth.The curious thing about the administration's mood at the moment, given the UN's ponderousness and the hawks' scepticism, is how little anger there is.
Whatever others thought of Wagner's vocal writing and ponderousness, none could deny his control of harmony, dramatic structure, and orchestration.
Absent from his work is the pseudo-Biblical rhetoric, the misty imprecations favored by geniuses of a more or less reactionary temper, like Ruskin and Carlyle, or the parliamentary ponderousness of the writers of a more or less progressive sensibility, like Macaulay and Arnold.
The special underscores, with a deliberate lack of subtlety and with a clear intent to be funny, the ponderousness that the documentary form is prone to, but that quality also occasionally infects the show itself.
The prosecution itself is, in a way, the punishment, and through the rest of the movie, its director, Chaitanya Tamhane, a twenty-eight-year-old first-time filmmaker, lays bare some of the deep dysfunctions of the Indian judiciary, beginning with the ponderousness of Indian trials.
There was a new ponderousness in him, as if he had suddenly found himself bearing the weight of a heavy world.
Though there is some good material here, it is surrounded by so much ponderousness that you wish the producers had taken a strong hand to the Powerses' script, but — oh, no — the Powerses themselves were the executive producers.
Also, with the exception of "Supernatural," they have some of the ponderousness of CBS's hit franchise "CSI".
The ponderousness of the cow.
