The bad: The Escape's ponderous handling and high level of road and wind noise made highway driving a chore.
These defenses were designed against large scale threats, such as capital ship attacks, and were too ponderous to track fast-moving vessels such as Alliance starfighters.
The longer poems of his middle period can be ponderous and too philosophical by half.
The Mubarak trial, however, involves multiple charges and ten co-defendants and is likely to be long and ponderous.
I don't like his ponderous style of writing.
The ponderous process of adopting a new sanctions resolution at the UN will probably get under way next month.
So initially the ponderous shield is of an "ethereal temper," we are told.
The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the New World.
"The furniture of the hall consisted of some ponderous chairs, the backs of which were elaborately carved with wreaths of oaken flowers;"
The ponderous prose here has an underlying agenda that is very much akin to Voegelin's: it is something like the unidimensional totalitarianism Herbert Marcuse discussed in One-Dimensional Man.
As the echoes of Connington's footsteps faded away Grand Maester Pycelle gave a ponderous shake of his head.
That could include anything from Michael Moore's rantings to John Kerry's ponderous autobiography.
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