Harlequins had swooped like ravenous wolves on a series of ponderous Saracens passes in the first quarter, eager to avoid a second home loss in the season's opening month.
Avoiding a ponderous cultural-studies tone, Svenvold offers sharp reflections on the cult of the outlaw and the charms of hucksterism, while staying keenly attuned to the wonderful strangeness of a culture that could transform a corpse into a celebrity.
The French commander in chief, General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, proposed an advance against Germany through neutral Belgium and the Netherlands in order to have room to exercise his ponderous military machine.
Lloyd's is licensed to do business in 60 nations, thus allowing customers to skirt the ponderous permit process to insure a plant in the likes of India.
My consistent answer to the ponderous question of how WikiLeaks transformed our world has been: really, not all that much.
"I hate to sound ponderous," Ms. Bushell said, "but I have a certain moral obligation.
He read at a walking pace, unhurried enough to be easily understood but not so slow as to be ponderous.
The tempo lacked an edge and so the play tended to be ponderous.
That doesn't mean you have to be ponderous, pedantic, profound, or even particularly deep in your own musings over what you experience.
However, RCTs tend to be ponderous and take a long time to complete.
