ponderousness

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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

It’s not easy managing the ponderousness of O’Neill’s writing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Big-screen enterprises, particularly those adapted from books with a huge, fiercely loyal readership, often have a ponderousness built in to every image.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

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

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2023

The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas