Unless it's Ian McEwan's Solar, which is so fucking ponderous as comedy, it's like an elephant being funny".
Which is to say: ponderous dialogue, a confusing plot, sci-fi interjections that derail any attachment the player might think he or she has with leading characters, and the general impression that this all might work better as a movie, rather than a game.
Which is to say: ponderous dialogue, a confusing plot, sci-fi interjections that derail any attachment the player might think they have with leading characters, and the general impression that this all might work better as a movie, rather than a game.
She has a smart and engaging style, which is serious but not ponderous.
Setting the action in the afterlife contributes to the ponderous tone of "Balaton," which is full of eulogies and intimations of loss.
"Sin?" "Which is to be punished!" This is, obviously, dangerously ponderous material.
Yet "The Sexual Life of Catherine M". is as ponderous as it is heavy-breathing, which is saying a lot.
The ending, which is meant to bring us face to face with the evil of unscrupulous politicians and the rottenness of power, is ponderous rather than shocking.
Systematix, which is devoted to the creation of enormous information databases and a panopticon of global surveillance, is ethereal where the conglomerates were ponderous.
Appropriately, the Antares itself is a ponderous beast, taking more than a minute after launch to break the sound barrier, which is slow for a rocket.
