I think the idea was... I'm guessing what they thought was Leveson would come out with was a very ponderous and sort of sonorous condemnation of bad practices but the preservation of the free press – and in a way he sort of did – and that would be the end of it.
By then, Weems was already soliciting advance subscriptions for a quite different sort of biography, a wildly hyped but ponderous five-volume set, written by John Marshall.
It is the sort of concern that can easily become ponderous in the wrong hands; in Halfon's, it is funny and revelatory.
Use of ponderous twaddle to obscure thinking.
The resulting volume of ponderous clichés will surprise nobody familiar with Coelho, or Twitter.
A few nineteenth-century inaugurals, including William Henry Harrison's, consist of ponderous constitutional analysis.
Don't worry, it's quite short and is free of ponderous cultural philosophizing.
Size, weight and technical difficulties limit the use of ponderous strip chart electroencephalographs (EEGs) for real time evaluation of brain wave function in modern intensive care units (ICUs).
Cave's stab at a sort of otherworldly timelessness can often result in such ponderous tongue twisters.
