A double layer of decision making would only cause an already ponderous organization to seize up.

But, even when the parliament does make an effort to connect with voters, the ponderous bureaucratic culture of its permanent officials tends to spoil things.

The ponderous technology of the time meant filming a simple scene would often take hours due to the need for the camera to be laboriously set up for each shot.

In his book The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead described the expedition thus It proceeds first to last with the decorum and heavy inevitability of a Victorian state banquet, complete with ponderous speeches.

Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.