Sentence examples for so ponderous from inspiring English sources

'It all sounds so ponderous and self-important.

Maybe that's because the subject matter is so weighty and the implications so ponderous.

This season you could use an engraver to track their progress, so ponderous has it been.

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.

Headlines in the Onion, a spoof newspaper ("[Clinton] feels nation's pain, breasts"), would not be so funny if those in the New York Times were not so ponderous.

But his critique of that system is so weak and his artistry so ponderous that "The Nauru Elegies" must be counted, at best, a missed opportunity.

Unless it's Ian McEwan's Solar, which is so fucking ponderous as comedy, it's like an elephant being funny".

'He's got this ponderous manner so that even when he's being quite amusing, people miss it because they just don't see past that rather mournful delivery.' It is certainly true that he rarely shows extremes of emotion.

It's as if giant hands have gripped the trunk and given it a quarter of a turn twist so that, despite its ponderous enormity, the tree acquires the youthful exuberance of the swirl of a flamenco dancer's skirt.

Describing the way Pepper's mother and aunt dominated his life, McCaughrean says: "the women leaned in against Pepper's childhood like a pair of book ends – big, ponderous women so full of tragedy they could barely make their corsets hook up".

So it's somewhat ponderous that the humans were awarded the medals.