ponderous
Example Sentences
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Few sports topics are as reliably ponderous, full of arid data, self-importance and opinions that only make sense to the voters holding them.
His debut single, Sign Of The Times, was a ponderous and needlessly long ballad that entered the charts at number one purely on the basis of Styles' celebrity.
From BBC
The “inter-titles,” usually ponderous in silent cinema, are fluent and compelling, ensuring a relentless drive that propels the story forward.
It contains lots of instances of its heroine stopping to wonder what everything means, which is another way of saying it’s ponderous and pretentious.
Liverpool were slow, ponderous and lacking in ideas.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
