Not so close, my ponderous one.

pyramid of ponderous, pulsating pulchritudinous pachyderms.

It must be a ponderous chain by now.

Like Spencer's Talus with his modern flail He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail.

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.

Yet, it would be an illusion to believe that peace in the Middle East and in the Balkans would alone make it possible to reach that goal. Parallel efforts must also be devoted to addressing the increasing and ponderous disparities that exist throughout the Mediterranean.

A still duskier place is this, with such low ponderous beams above, and such old wrinkled planks beneath, that you would almost fancy you trod some old craft's cockpits, especially of such a howling night, when this corner anchored old ark rocked so furiously.

40. The conclusion reached by the intergovernmental bodies and the Secretariat alike is that the volume of documentation produced by the United Nations has reached such ponderous proportions that it has disrupted the efficiency of the documentation chain, from author units through the last stage of distribution.