ponderousness

1 In an era of TV bloat, seeing “A Very English Scandal” choose zippiness over ponderousness is a blessing, but one that occasionally feels more like a compromise than a plan.

2 She kept Crossjay beside her till she dismounted, and the colonel was left to the procession of elephantine ideas in his head, whose ponderousness he took for natural weight.

3 Its elegiac pacing and atmosphere convey the ponderousness of the nation’s losses at that moment.

4 The film unspools with the dreamlike pace of a Michael Cunningham novel, while Murray’s sardonic wit saves it – as in his previous collaboration with Coppola, Lost in Translation – from ponderousness.

5 Rattigan's dialogue is sometimes rolled out at a stately pace on the false assumption that ponderousness equals profundity.

6 And that’s not even the weirdest thing about the ponderous pachyderm’s voiceover.

7 The ponderousness of the picture signals itself almost every minute “Freddy’s” illuminates the screen.

8 But any such pretensions are kept in check here, as is the ponderousness and sentimentality that often afflict such exercises in mythmaking.

9 Eschenbach kept the intensity without the ponderousness — indeed, his tempos were positively fleet in the second movement, in which he struck the downbeats and trusted the orchestra to fill in the rest.

10 Anthony Page directs with a plodding ponderousness that turns this disconcerting comedy into a three-hour trudge.

11 The ponderousness, the delicacy, the involvement of the difficulties were not less in the machinery of the Durande than in the clock of La Charité-sur-Loire.

12 Ovid is brisker and more obviously to the purpose; but Ariosto gives the ponderousness and dreary triumph of the monster.

13 His lifeless and verbose conceits soon provoke by their falsity, and fatigue by their ponderousness.

14 In the son's case, the father's ponderousness had turned to gravity.

15 Phoebe is too irreverent to tolerate ponderousness, and besides, she’s got a young woman to find, a hot detective to bed and a new future to make.

16 But at nineteen Thomas had attained a height of six feet five, with a proportionate breadth and ponderousness.

17 He moved in the cotillon or waltz with a certain elephantine ponderousness and sagacity.

18 And finally there is the sense of play that saves Mr. Brown’s books from ponderousness, even when he is waxing wise about some ancient mystery or architectural wonder.

19 I don't like his ponderous style of writing.

我不喜欢他冗长乏味的文风。

20 Floating like mist over the top of the cataract is an ’80s-esque keyboard that saves the track from any hint of ponderousness.

1 沈重

heavy weightiness

2 笨重

cumbersome clumsy beefy unwieldy hulking ponderous lumpish elephantine puddingy unwieldiness ponderosity

3 乏味

slow heavy dead sick sad boring deadly dull pedestrian blah mundane bland tacky monotonous uninspired colourless ponderous vapid humdrum pallid prosy blandly dully monotonously prosaically ponderously unimaginatively boredom monotony dullness blandness

4 冗长无味

ponderously