Sentence examples for somewhat ponderous from inspiring English sources

One subtype, here designated as slow climbing, differs profoundly from the other subtypes of the category, being somewhat ponderous and devoid of elements of leaping or jumping.

"Is There Anybody Out There?" had the blind wonder of a Christmas song, and some numbers, like "She" and "Diamonds," lack tension and end up somewhat ponderous.

Perhaps it is hard for the players to bear the weight of that tradition, for Mr. Barenboim's performance was somewhat ponderous.

By the 1860s, however, Bunyan's somewhat ponderous tale of journeys through the "slough of despond" and "valley of humiliation" had gone out of fashion, and a theater owner in Maine let crates of the rolled-up muslin molder in storage.

His view of the American Revolution was realized in America (1924), and his next-to-last film, Abraham Lincoln (1930), was another view of the American Civil War in a somewhat ponderous biographical style.

In a more understated vein, Ray Johnson's collaged pyramid memorializes Barnett Newman, an abstractionist whose somewhat ponderous pronouncements may be symbolized by a row of Babar-like elephant heads.

Brimstone is hampered somewhat by its ponderous, doom-laden pace, and resultant bloated running time, but remains an intriguing slant on the spaghetti western: could Koolhoven have invented its Dutch equivalent – the Edam western, perhaps?

The saga of Isak and Inger (born with a harelip) and their hard times is by turns affecting and ponderous; the somewhat overheated first-person narrators of Hamsun's extraordinary early novels — "Hunger" and "Pan" — are replaced by a stately, almost distant third person.

The old man gives us ponderous narration undercut somewhat by the sight of a Night Ranger LP in his apartment looming over the old man's head.

This confidently handled horror-thriller from Israeli writer-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado provides a somewhat glib retort to September's ponderous Prisoners, adopting a queasily black-comic tone in three-hander involving a rogue cop, a suspected pederast, and the vengeful father of a dead young girl.

Ponderous but pretty, one for completists.