Sentence examples for pretty ponderous from inspiring English sources

Chelsea have been pretty ponderous in this half - passing extremely slowly.

The film is pretty ponderous, and it may seem horribly dated now that we are this far away from the first, remarkable emergence of Barbra herself in the 1960s - not that she had anything in common with all the obvious meanings of that decade.

Ponderous but pretty, one for completists.

In the tradition of movies like "Snow Falling on Cedars," the film, directed by François Girard, confuses pretty scenery doused in ponderous music with epic visual poetry.

But this is far from being a ponderous book about pondering.

"The artists I knew at that time felt pretty genuinely that if the process got too heavy or ponderous or worried, if you weren't having a good time at least part of the time, something was wrong," Mr. Nelson said about the groupthink that spawned his approach to filmmaking.

In page after ponderous page of alternative reality, they pretty much destroy it.

The high, the low and the middle strata of metropolitan society "appeared in grand array -- pretty women, budding maidens and buxom matrons, antique dowagers, venerable spinsters, grave judges, heavy merchants and ponderous bankers," Edward Wilkins wrote of opening night in The New York Herald.

It was not pretty, for Higgins broke down more often than a jalopy, but in the end his heroic if ponderous young opponent had too much to do.

Is it fast?" Well, I'm sure the Great White Whale looked pretty fast to Ahab, in the manner of all huge things that move with anything other than ponderous deliberation.

Reactions are slow and ponderous.