"Walk on Water" — the first single from his forthcoming album, "Revival" — is grim and ponderous and, to its credit, seems to understand that it might be perceived as grim and ponderous.
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" "After Macron, Merkel will inevitably look ponderous, dour even.
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What might seem ponderous becomes a thing of quiet joy.
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Handling, too, isn't as ponderous as the trucks of yore.
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And I tired of the ponderous silences and opaque "meaningful" glances.
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While at times ponderous, Cohen's sweeping review is impressive and necessary.
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Such moments weigh down "Live by Night," making its heaviness ponderous.
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But Gods of Egypt is a ponderous bore, which is simply baffling.
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Its collection is ponderous, full of countless knick-knacks and few masterpieces.
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Instead, it vacillates between ponderous solemnity and a distressing tendency towards silly schtick.
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What begins as a ponderous chin-scratch later falls into its own naval.
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Some queries, however, are too ponderous or inane to even be Bing-worthy.
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More like Slow and Ponderous," claiming that the movie "drags down the franchise.
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The ponderous and familiar quality of home movies cuts us loose in time.
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But he did so in a more ponderous way than Harris's rapid-fire style.
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With the Lakers last season, he seemed miscast in the team's ponderous offensive system.
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Perhaps he tried too hard; the performance lost tension and became weighty, almost ponderous.
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It isn't morbid, nor is it vain, a celebrity's ponderous concerns about her legacy.
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So much for ponderous legislation that's too lengthy for lawmakers to read before voting.
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" It was, as Jacob Marley said in a slightly different context, "a ponderous chain.
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Not only are they complex, ponderous and costly; they also offer small returns to investors.
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The ponderous title of the stealth legislation is the Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Act.
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It can be giddy and ponderous, sweet and scathing, very often in the same picture.
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For all its ponderous officialdom, the Pentagon also has an especially clear chain of command.
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Early on, some obvious foreshadowing and convenient plot developments keep the story from becoming ponderous.
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A big difficulty in widening such bottlenecks is cumbersome procedures, legal hurdles and ponderous bureaucracies.
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When they don't — and there are some misfires here — the results are strident and ponderous.
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In the end, however, Ad Astra offers little more than ponderous vagueness masquerading as depth.
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Underneath that dismal performance is the overregulation of the private economy by a ponderous government.
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But millions of people love his ponderous paintings and sculptural cargo for precisely that reason.
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Seating politicians in a hemicycle seems to encourage them to talk in a careful, ponderous way.
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Throw in ponderous law courts and weak competition, and annual interest rates typically reach 20-35%.
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Too many stretches of dialogue are written in a declamatory, slow-moving style that becomes ponderous.
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It's a series of ornate but ponderous creations, a shelf-busting set of Fabergé ostrich eggs.
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The challenge is to avoid getting caught up in abstract corporate strategies or ponderous economic theories.
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Sometimes, the proceedings lag — usually because of lackluster bidding, a sparse crowd or a ponderous auctioneer.
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The ponderous beasts of the turn-based or grand strategy genus are especially good at this.
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Tall and willowy, she moves with a determination that can feel ponderous—until she gets into character.
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Macklemore's new album, Gemini, has been positioned as a "liberation" from the ponderous interrogations that came before.
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The more ponderous and narrowly focused a conservation outfit was, the more easily poachers could corrupt it.
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Where Claudio Ranieri's side employed rapid counterattacks to cut through opponents, Atlético's build-up is more ponderous.
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Directed with whimsy and portentousness by Ken Rus Schmoll, the play feels as ponderous as its title.
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Yes, Snicket has his shtick: ponderous character names, an air of the old-fashioned, unlikely plot twists.
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He's determined to let "the beauty of the Tuscan countryside work its magic" on his ponderous manuscript.
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They nodded their sage heads sagely, stroked their beards, gave the lawyer-blacksmith grim and ponderous looks.
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You could assemble a class action suit of hurt residents, but that's a ponderous and uncertain process.
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But it's nevertheless inside iTunes, which remains a ponderous and confusing amalgam of too many functions and features.
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And yet its 50 minutes of ponderous texts set to fluffy nebulae of diatonic music sometimes felt endless.
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Sadly, these elements don't make up for the ponderous, portentous storytelling in this high-strung and histrionic novel.
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Keynote speakers can give ponderous or uninspiring speeches (see Bill Clinton in 1988 and Mark Warner in 2008).
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It is slow-moving and ponderous, and the occasional monologues from the Cajun voiceover guy are really ridiculous.
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" Schiff went on to say, "If you play this piece at Beethoven's tempi, then it's not ponderous anymore. . . .
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This year's championship is more like the high-octane rush of Formula One (F503) motorsport than a ponderous regatta.
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In 2019, Crackdown 3 feels like a minimalist reaction to the ponderous maximalism of what those games have become.
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Think the ponderous moral ethics and abrupt violence of Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation blended with Deadpool's R-rated irreverence.
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Over a ponderous, meandering hour and 45 minutes, Karmakar paints an intimate picture of his subjects and their work.
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This takes on a ponderous connotation when the only human in the equation is the one holding the controller.
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Their movement was ponderous, passes went astray under no pressure whatsoever and free kicks and crosses were over-hit.
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For Mr. Brooks, this exploration of fluidity — lugubrious, ponderous — offered little in the way of a change of course.
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It was poky and ponderous, with a drawn-out first half that too often stranded itself against narrative shoals.
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But the leaker was widely praised by college basketball fans for short-circuiting CBS's ponderous revealing of the bracket.
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Despite the brisk narrative, the book has a ponderous tone: It reads like a lecture from an economics professor.
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It's a ponderous hour of television made worse by acting that does nothing to liven what's on the page.
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As a result, the series has a whirling dynamism that was lacking in the static and sometimes ponderous film.
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The truth, seldom discussed, is that the multistakeholder architecture is as unwieldy as the ponderous name that dignifies it.
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Those films depicted ponderous soul quests, held together with clunky voiceovers; they alienated all but his most diehard fans.
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As a result, the series has a whirling dynamism that was lacking in the static and sometimes ponderous film.
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It takes compelling singers, though, to convey the expressive subtleties of vocal writing that can come off as ponderous.
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Overall, People, Places, Patterns flows with a slow, ponderous pace that echoes the simultaneous wonder and loneliness of nomadism.
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While Hogan ran it well Sunday against the Bengals, his throwing motion is long and ponderous and made for interceptions.
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In both Invocation and Letdown, ponderous themes of mourning and absence contrast with the artworks' flimsy cardboard and plywood construction.
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Also, of course, it served as a happy (I guess) distraction from the ponderous if no less violent happenings onstage.
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It is clear, however, that the ponderous pace of the court system may well take that resolution past November 2017.
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Free from the constraints of a ponderous EU, the UK could now go feet-first into a tech-driven future.
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It's still a ponderous waste of two of the world's best rappers and one some of its most intriguing characters.
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I stretched out my hand and, in reply, the creature made a slow, ponderous swing at me with its foreleg.
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And the European Union's cautious, often ponderous approach to policymaking is now clashing directly with Mr. Trump's unpredictability and aggressiveness.
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EU decision-making structures, say the French, are too ponderous to be useful when it comes to responding to such emergencies.
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What started out as a slow, ponderous take on horror slowly morphed over the years into a fairly generic action series.
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And that politics was libertarianism, with its zeal for laissez-faire capitalism and contempt for the ponderous institutions of Big Government.
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But today at least the West's ponderous wait-them-out approach to the murderous fanatics of the caliphate looks like capitulation.
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At this point, Gussie's weight had crept up to a ponderous 250 pounds, but she remained technically sound as a pugilist.
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As a young academic, he had written ponderous tomes, examining the way that checks and balances worked between the three branches.
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The black leather jacket the older Bell wears gives the actress some physical heft, as does a ponderous, borderline leaden walk.
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It's pithier than ponderous phrases like "taking offense" (which sounds petulant) or "taking umbrage" (which sounds British, parliamentary, possibly weather-related).
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Arielle Kebbel and Michael Imperioli also star in a series that needs to overcome the most ponderous title of the season.
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It becomes so ponderous as you just scale outside of the possibility of any of these levels giving you any challenge.
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What followed was a long, ponderous massage with light, small movements accompanied by remarkable noises that Kiki made with her mouth.
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On the freeway, it's ponderous and floaty with no discernible connection between the steering wheel and the front wheels of the vehicle.
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The exhibit lifts its wryly ponderous title, Ethics demonstrated in geometrical order, from an eponymous treatise by the Enlightenment philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
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But movement was ponderous, gestures were awkward, and my left hand kept disappearing, apparently because my wedding ring reflection confounded uSens' sensors.
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That passes the ball to Avichai Mendelblit, a cautious and ponderous advocate who served as Mr Netanyahu's cabinet secretary for three years.
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The film's abiding impression is of a ponderous mystery, complete with miracles and exorcisms, unfolding gradually amid brownish hills and grey lakes.
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The Munchs may get a bit ponderous, but the beauty and lightness of "The Seasons" dispel any whiffs of fatalism or portentousness.
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The British composer Ethel Smyth's music is often vigorous and dramatic; it can also sometimes be ponderous, even in moments of inspiration.
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No two Log Cabin scents smell alike — they invoke more of a mood board (chilly, smoky, ponderous) than a cohesive olfactory profile.
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For the Kashmir stories, Roy relies on a looped, nesting structure familiar from "Small Things"; though occasionally ponderous, it heightens our suspense.
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When sent the first chapter of his ponderous tome, she gently reminded him that a book should be a work of art.
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In a world where live oak leaves fall "like pennies" and teams of oxen move in "a ponderous waltz," everything is news.
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This saddles the overlong film with a ponderous, grinding feel, one driven by a sense of obligation more than the glee of inspiration.
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And "State of Love and Trust" might be Pearl Jam's most fun song, freed from the ponderous affect of the band's contemporaneous work.
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A window behind the bar looks onto the facility where Lyon and Marks produce and age their wines, in racks of ponderous barrels.
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"I guess I was always an archivist," he said, smiling, surveying the spread, his glasses and ponderous forehead giving him an owllike bearing.
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Yet even with the occasional dollop of dog-related humor, "The Art of Racing in the Rain" feels as ponderous as its title.
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Last year's College World Series games averaged 250 hours 13 minutes — 21 minutes quicker than 23, but still too ponderous for many tastes.
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He often expressed contempt for what he described as the "ponderous" and "ineffectual" headquarters bureaucracy under J. Edgar Hoover, the former F.B.I. director.
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Yet the conversational flow was not ponderous or one-way; he was just as interested in new people and ideas as in old ones.
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It may surprise you to learn that this heady mixture isn't in the least pretentious or ponderous, but rather sweet, searching and deeply intelligent.
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There's an excerpt from a ponderous essay she wrote when she was 14, and a drawing of a cat she sketched at age 12.
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The federal government is finally directing its massive, ponderous machinery at the new coronavirus, but most of that machinery's going in the wrong direction.
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Still, there is a fine line between strict and rigid, and this opening section seemed reined in, with little give, even ponderous at times.
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It handles better than the Mercedes GLC, is less ponderous than the Lexus RX, and is more comfortable than the rest of the class.
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It is more lively, readable, and unsparing of the president than the former FBI director's ponderous account of his team's findings, to be sure.
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The one dull album reviewed below confirms my fear that ponderous would-be therapeutic expressionism will also be with us for a long time.
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French director Bruno Dumont's latest, a ponderous experimental musical about Joan of Arc's childhood, celebrates the innocence and banality of a young saint's life.
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There's no big cutscene, no walls of text to memorize, no ponderous preamble that makes you wish you'd put a Mario game on instead.
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It's possible the new series will mine the ponderous but rich Silmarillion for material, as fan fiction writers and lore aficionados have done for decades.
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Mr Renzi would have been better off arguing for more structural reforms on everything from reforming the slothful judiciary to improving the ponderous education system.
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The autofocus system is slow and ponderous, and you can hear the lenses cranking away as they rack back and forth trying to lock focus.
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There's no lengthy opening cutscene or ponderous tutorial — your character starts the game in chains, breaks free in seconds, and the action begins from there.
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Oh sure, and hokum with a whole lot of ponderous speeches about the morality of aesthetics and the creed of the Individual (capital I, please).
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In the company of Mr. Lee's delicate contrapuntal arrangements of sand, rope and boulders, Dia's American and German all-stars suddenly seemed a bit ponderous.
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And then I realized — what bugs me about The Hunger Games is not really the series itself; it's the entire ponderous, reductive discourse it launched.
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Even after RCA's popular TK-240 line introduced color to live broadcasting in the 220s, cameras remained ponderous and continued to suffer in low-light settings.
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Rawlings was ponderous, plodding and unable to come up with any suitable alternative for Torres, with the gulf in talent between both women clear to see.
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That they can't always jolt the show to life, or overcome its tendency toward a critical mass of self-consciousness and ponderous seriousness, isn't their fault.
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That polish extends to the expert pacing: The series takes its time to build toward the Big Reveal, but it is never overly plodding or ponderous.
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It isn't ponderous, but spread as thin as a shell, just enough to contain the elemental fillings of twice-fried you tiao, rousong and pickled radish.
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Ms. Belsare is elaborately stylish, but with such a heavy veneer of charming dignity that I could never get past it; Mr. Rajagopalan's manner is ponderous.
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Those who had the pleasure of wallowing through turns in previous Wranglers may wonder how a loud, rough-riding and ponderous machine wins three Mudfest awards.
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This film, too, with its vivid biographical details, characteristically offbeat humor, and ponderous sequences of studio activity, seems destined to become an essential piece of Lynchelia.
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We conferred, then conscripted a machinist, who with our assistance hauled her ponderous cutters and blowtorches over the soft sand and set to work on the saucer.
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Jordan Kasey's painted figures, lit with mysterious, colored light, have the monumentality of Picasso's Neo-classical period and are as ponderous as whales gliding through the ocean.
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They only settled on the Zelle brand name this summer, for instance, and such ponderous development leaves plenty of space for payment startups to keep adding users.
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All that most people, including Wade, want to do is strap on a headset, ditch their ponderous existence, and enter a virtual realm, known as the Oasis.
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But Mr. Nelsons's measured account of this frenzied work — which typically runs about 70 minutes but approached 80 on Monday — often came off as timid, even ponderous.
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He set out to prove that the sometimes ponderous state bureaucracy could move at Silicon Valley speed, and he was the one who promised the expedited permits.
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A collage of exquisitely wobbly lines and long, ponderous faces, her work reads like a playful challenge to the seriousness — and pervasive inequality — of the traditional art scene.
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But that doesn't mean that Hale County feels like a ponderous exercise in applied film theory — it's a rich, moving glimpse into the lives of Hale County residents.
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Americans no longer needed to wade through Osama bin Laden's ponderous sermons or travel abroad; in fact, Inspire advocated jihadist attacks at home to avoid increased travel security.
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She supported Mr Macron's proposed European military intervention force, widely mistrusted in Germany—but wants it folded into the ponderous EU structures Mr Macron is keen to circumvent.
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When Zeppelin released their untitled fourth album in 1971, "Stairway" went on to become a megahit, despite its length (just over eight minutes), multipart structure and ponderous lyrics.
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We meet several students in thrall to a charismatic teacher, Mr. Kingsley, a ponderous creature of the theater—he prefers "theatre"—who lives bravely out of the closet.
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While bands dipped into bottomless recording budgets to fill up album sides with long, ponderous suites of progressive rock, journalists kept pace by writing sprawling, navel-gazing reviews.
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His record was that of an orthodox conservative, but his lower-key, big-picture approach could verge on the ponderous and he did not connect with primary voters.
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"Arnold's ability to create emotional immediacy with her raw handheld work marked a departure from Vallée's more ponderous floating camera emphasizing the gravity of the situation," IndieWire explained.
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To send photos, The Times used a suitcase-sized Leafax film scanner and a satellite telephone, a ponderous combination that weighed nearly 100 pounds and required reliable electricity.
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Yet while the mainstreaming of exploitation cinema is old news, more notionally respectable movies tend to tart up their cheap goods with ponderous self-importance and deep-dish ideas.
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He spent his late teens and twenties immersed in the film repertory culture of New York, which meant a lot of time watching ponderous black-and-white films indoors.
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First off, the tracks are intergalactically spacey, and the bass tying everything together is so ponderous that you can feel it even on a pair of tinny laptop speakers.
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A delicate butterfly rests for a moment on Charles's hand, slowly beating its wings; an iguana convincingly squirms and snaps; Galapagos tortoises plant their ancient feet with ponderous dignity.
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It's here, and through sequences of recent protests captured by Salas on the same streets as in the 1980s, that The Cordillera of Dreams moves from ponderous to urgent.
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The book stars Veblen Amundsen-Hovda, a ponderous but unambitious 30-year-old woman whose needy mother named her after the turn-of-the-century sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen.
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Things turned ponderous right from the opener, when North Carolina and Oregon State played the longest nine-inning game, by time, in the tournament's 33-year history — 4:24.
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But the piece grows slack and ponderous as it consciously reaches at the status of oratorio and Mass, with phrases from Genesis woven into the imagery and musical fabric.
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Her thick figures, lit with mysterious, colored light, have the monumentality of Picasso's Neo-classical period, without the earth tones, and are as ponderous as whales gliding through the ocean.
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Though the film suffers from its ponderous tone, and could stand to be about 20 minutes shorter, it boasts multi-dimensional, complex performances from its two above-the-line leads.
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Real talk: if you've played Persona, if you've enjoyed JRPGs, if you even have a passing interest in Japanese media, there's absolutely no reason to read this frankly ponderous review.
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While the first generation of battery cars tended to be slow and often ponderous when it comes to driving dynamics, manufacturers have begun putting more of a premium on performance.
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The country's ponderous labour code, currently longer than the Bible, should limit itself to basic protection of workers, and leave bosses and unions within firms to hammer out finer details.
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The Spurs have built their reputation on passing and movement, but they have been more than happy to let Aldridge engage in a more ponderous form of post-up play.
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But Mr. Little and Mr. Vavrek also introduce mythological fates, characters who guide the couple and are often fortified by intoning choruses in heavy-handed episodes that turn "JFK" ponderous.
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Even in states overwhelmingly controlled by one party or the other, debates over gun control or gun rights routinely rank among the most contentious and ponderous of the legislative session.
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Even in states overwhelmingly controlled by one party or the other, debates over gun control or gun rights routinely rank among the most contentious and ponderous of the legislative session.
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But the ponderous process of meting out international law and hammering home the message that war crimes don't pay has done little to choke off the nationalism at its root.
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" And Steve is described as a "great ponderous mastodon," whose "power fled out from him like fire catching and racing in chains along a wooden fence, propelled by the wind.
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In other words, she has refused to join the club that celebrates the excesses of the 1% by making glitzy baubles and ponderous, oversized paintings to hang on their walls.
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If you crave the hazy look, low-concept drama and borderline ponderous yet absorbing dialogue of "Thirtysomething," but you prefer your shows British and set a little later, try this.
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The ponderous music that blares when Arnold's phone rings is amusing, and then it's abruptly not, having transformed, call after call, into a dirge, a requiem, a discordant family bleat.
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Veterans groups and members of Congress have credited him with making real, if ponderous, progress in improving care in the veterans' vast health system, which includes 1,234 clinics and hospitals.
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Ridley Scott returned to the Alien franchise to great fanfare in 2012, but the ponderous Prometheus ultimately proved divisive, and its connection to Alien was weaker than some fans had hoped.
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"IN A WORLD…", a film from 2013, is about, of all things, the voice-over industry—specifically, the warm, masculine voices that lend a ponderous authority to film trailers and advertisements.
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Or he does until the first of two traumatic inflection points, two "that night"s that come in ponderous succession, each so horrifying that Toby can only speak vaguely about them.
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But do not be fooled by the fact she is the oldest woman in the main singles draw: Williams affected that same ponderous movement during her first visit here in 1997.
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A ponderous handout essay — yes, philosophy hipsters, "object-oriented ontology" has made it to Madison Avenue — contrasts sharply with the straight talk of the NPR feed: airstrikes, hurricanes, protest, disease, Trump.
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Never has a lively book been burdened with such a ponderous title; it's hard to believe that a writer as fine as Spring actually dreamed this one up on his own.
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Less convincing were Ms. Bond's other two works, "The Giving," a ponderous duet for Christine Shevchenko and Cory Stearns that explored facets of isolation, and "Impressions," titled after Jennifer Higdon's score.
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The Fourth was a case in point, too neutral and ponderous an account to fit the composer's most foreboding and destructive piece, and with playing that, at times, verged on blare.
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But on the other, anybody I take seriously gets the joke, has a good sense of the room, and is not precious or ponderous about anything having to do with this business.
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A holdover from the days of the company's former ballet master in chief, Peter Martins, who choreographed it in 1996 and introduced it to City Ballet in 1999, it's rushed yet ponderous.
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Best seen with: Teens and other family members (although definitely not children) who want something weird and substantive without tipping into ponderous artsiness, outright alienation, or over-the-top sex and gore.
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As this meandering work progresses, it does feel like a journey, if a ponderous one, told in eight sections, with scenery that makes it seem as though you're traveling in a loop.
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" Indiewire: "Even without its mopey, painfully on-the-nose dialogue and ponderous story, The Last Face sets itself up for failure with its premise, and Penn's apparent inability to recognize it as such.
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"We should break with the ponderous prose of most official economic writing and aim at giving Congressmen themselves something they can actually read and understand," CBO's first director, Alice Rivlin, wrote in 1975.
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Van Sant's 2015 film The Sea of Trees sullied the "suicide forest," sending McConaughey into Aokigahara as a ponderous and mildly insufferable man who finds the will to live via helpful Japanese ghosts.
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Matt Goldberg, Collider ... there is something ponderous and cumbersome about Justice League; the great revelation is very laborious and solemn and the tiresome post-credits sting is a microcosm of the film's disappointment.
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One time a guy who was installing my cable told me that he could beat up Tim Sylvia, then the UFC's heavyweight champion who'd become a plodding, ponderous fighter while defending his belt.
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This year, for example, in addition to the usual lofty, ponderous, and virtue signaling sessions on climate change and the empowerment of women, a new item on the agenda is pollution from plastics.
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On a recent night, in the Americana glow of a nearby McDonald's sign, a mustachioed man adorned in ponderous rings and wearing little oval sunglasses slowly drained his glass and observed the tableaux.
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The text goes on a bit sometimes, and the actual story is a little ponderous, but again: this was the first crack at this from writers who'd go on to produce better things.
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The mere sight of this basic piece of furniture, which occupies center stage at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, almost moved me to tears before Mr. Greenspan's brief but ponderous play even started.
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His most impressive bondage pictures are shot in saturated color, with rich reds and greens, but the black-and-white ones can at times feel ponderous, too much like porn with a pedigree.
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Just at the stage when we hope children will keep reading, their book lists begin to resemble a compendium of life lessons — as though reading must be grave or ponderous to be meaningful.
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The voice crackling over the subway's speaker system seemed off somehow: It was peppy — sarcastic even — and lighthearted in a way that clashed with the usual, ponderous tone of the daily commuting grind.
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In one scene in which Kusanagi, ponderous as ever about her identity, wanders the city, she spots several other individuals who look exactly like her — others in her body's "line," so to speak.
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It features all the hallmarks of a true-crime docudrama, including contradictory interviews, ponderous voiceovers and an investigation that uncovers explosive new evidence — but all in high school, with plenty of the aforementioned dicks.
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" This explanation is disputed by the ponderous TV voiceover and astronaut Al Worden, who says on the show that "logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there's something there.
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A tangled bureaucracy, knotty laws and ponderous courts mean that while India ranks eighth in protecting minority shareholders, it trails in 178th place for enforcing contracts and in 183rd place for securing construction permits.
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Firstly, when Kathleen confesses she is sad about her failing business, he sends her a ponderous message berating her for not having seen The Godfather, like the self-appointed pop culture gatekeeper he is.
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At first it seemed that editing would improve this ponderous program, performed at New York Live Arts on Wednesday; it ran nearly two and a half hours and included five works and a video.
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" In Harper's , Pauline Kael wrote, "The ponderous blurry appeal of the picture may be that it takes its stoned audience out of this world to a consoling vision of a graceful world of space.
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She describes his "rather ponderous manner of speaking" and various odd motions he made with his right hand as he spoke—exactly the sort of close observations, Mulcahy said, that underlay all her performances.
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The story, a bit ponderous at the beginning, at least for this nonreligious reviewer, picks up once Maura arrives in Nicaragua in 1959 and gets involved with the needs and hopes of her parishioners.
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And what turns them off is exactly what makes this artist an academic darling, a knot of riddles to be untied, retied and untied again, which is what much of the ponderous catalog is about.
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While the causes may not be known conclusively for months (the National Transportation Safety Board reports are ponderous and exacting) the lack of braking before impact is often an indicator of driver inattention or incapacitation.
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He is lax at running between the wickets, hampering the chance to scamper quick singles and twos, and can also be ponderous in the field, out of sync with the increasing athleticism required in T20.
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The 5,000 in attendance at the Pensacola Bay Center were treated to a slow and ponderous affair and the subdued atmosphere emanating from the crowd directly correlated with the glacial pace set by both men.
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Johnson delivered praise for his predecessor's "fortitude and patience", but also repeatedly promised a new, more decisive leadership style - a dig at what many critics saw as May's sometimes ponderous and secretive approach to Brexit.
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Their characters may be distilled a little too directly from their past roles, and they can't always bring the more ponderous dialogue to life — Ms. Tomlin sometimes seems to be reciting it in a trance.
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Perry Anderson once wrote a ponderous essay on why the French are so much cleverer than the British because they recognised the genius of Louis Althusser, who turned out to be a wife-murdering lunatic.
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His conducting tended toward the more lush side of Beethoven interpretations — not nearly as ponderous as the Romanticized heft that dominated much of the 20th century, yet lacking the dashing lightness of historically informed performance.
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The pace is deliberate but not ponderous, evoking "the rich pleasures of great 203th-century fiction," as the New York Times critic A. O. Scott wrote when "The Woman Who Left" played briefly last spring.
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Politics may have once struck the ultrarich as a ponderous, ladder-climbing pursuit for stiffly programmed former class presidents, but President Trump has demonstrated that it can at least be tried on one's own terms.
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If the idea of a man reciting graphic, cryptic verse in a ponderous baritone over throbbing beds of synthesizer gush sounds like it might scratch your itch for sincere, self-conscious art, by all means immerse.
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Batman is defined by his barely varying rage — there's a funny little fan-art concept about that floating around the internet in a wide variety of iterations — and Batman Begins established a particularly grave, ponderous tone.
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Beyond the heavy, ponderous redwood door, the sort one might find in a medieval castle, is a simple open-plan home with a sleeping loft, all of it illuminated by sunlight pouring through picture-frame windows.
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But it's not mere fan service; the film tries very hard to sustain interest with new characters and developments that draw on the past without being handcuffed to it, throughout its sometimes ponderous 163-minute runtime.
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After intermission, leading Brahms's Fourth Symphony, Mr. Bychkov seemed to be emphasizing the majestic sweep and breadth of the music, so much so that the performance sometimes felt stretched out and ponderous, especially the first movement.
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That is a difficult work in progress, where the French sense of urgency and its political (over)drive are hitting against Germany's ponderous pragmatism, political instability, ominous social divisions, and strands of extremism, xenophobia and racism.
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A ponderous England never looked remotely capable of finding a way back into the game and even at the end when they were reduced to launching long balls into the box, Iceland dealt with everything comfortably.
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He regrets the way he handled things with Naomi before his death — and the film revisits his grief over and over, in a painfully ponderous voiceover that's enough to induce cringing by the end of the film.
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The apps are ponderous in operation, rudimentary in looks, and sparse in features—file version history (keeping older versions of files), for example, comes as standard in other services but is nowhere to be found in Amazon's.
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Barca had 65 percent of the possession but were strangely ponderous in midfield and leaky at the back, where they could not cope with the pace and aggression of Mario Mandzukic or Juan Cuadrado on the flanks.
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The secret of the comedy lies in the paradox of painstaking exaggeration (as if the diner were trying to crack a safe, or solve a philosophical conundrum), enforced by Sebald's calm control of apparently ponderous diction ("operation").
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MUNICH Staatsoper "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," Wagner's notoriously ponderous 1868 opera, follows a troupe of singers in 16th-century Nuremberg, charting their romantic whims and professional foibles to win a young woman's hand in a singing contest.
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The ponderous, meandering jams of the Allmans' early live performances––always more Coltrane than Carlos Santana––set the tone for generations of artists who used the blues as a base from which to spring in unexpected directions.
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A "Game of Thrones" star, Charles Dance (who plays Tywin Lannister in that HBO series), reads a ponderous narration in a sonorous voice that is supposed to be ominously intriguing but is too often just nap-inducing.
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The survey of 35 objects, installations and videos, covers a ponderous block of time — some 50 years — but, as superbly installed by Humberto Moro, curator of exhibitions at SCAD, it feels unanchored in time and anti-gravitational.
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It's another reimagining of the Camelot legend that this time, thanks to bad CGI, shaky-cam filming, and choppily edited action, is a ponderous snoozefest that comes in at just more than two hours but feels like three.
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I read all of them voraciously, and this was my favorite of the bunch: Mahoney is hilarious, and his unpretentious, conversational writing style was a breath of fresh air in the normally ponderous genre of family-building memoir.
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Haye, once again, set Gjergjaj up with a ponderous jab before throwing a series of powerful blows to finish off the job within two rounds after the referee Terry O'Connor had deemed the Swiss-Kosovan unfit to continue.
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Like a landscape painting, it stretches across the entire back of the stage, showing us ponderous footage of street scenes moving in slow motion or close-ups of the actors' faces, both prerecorded and shot in real time.
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In Battlefield, the actors' delivery was stilted, as if they were mimicking the slow, ponderous, 1970s Shakespeare productions that used to appear on the BBC, in which every word feels calculated to emphasize the gravity of Great Literature.
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For reasons hard to fathom, they have looked ponderous and lacking in creative thrust throughout coach Jorge Sampaoli's year in charge despite boasting Messi and other big names like Paulo Dybala, Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero and Angel Di Maria.
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They justify its flat, stilted voice acting, ponderous illustrated cutscenes, and ham-fisted exposition — characters routinely interrupt your game to repeat bizarrely obvious quest goals, even when they're marked prominently on a map — as campy homages instead of missteps.
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The ponderous table-shape and jumble of "Untitled (autumn 2627)" could be the mother of all Cubist still lifes, while the buoyant "Untitled (Viennese head)" speaks for generations of cartoonish, possibly hat-wearing noggins from Klee and Chagall forward.
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Clinton closing in on running mate search The early weeks of the general election have come as a relief for many Democratic insiders, who chafed at Clinton's failure to build enthusiasm during her primary race and her often ponderous campaign skills.
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If "Blade Runner 2049" seems to be more artistic than a typical sci-fi blockbuster, that's partly because its ponderous pacing and mournful tone demand that you take it seriously, and partly because it is so visually and aurally impressive.
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Pnini's films may be about the passage of time, but their uncomplicated brevity harkens back to the actuality films of early cinema rather than to the more ponderous touchstones of the durational avant-garde such as Warhol, Brakhage, and Tarkovsky.
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Several years ago, as President Barack Obama negotiated with Republicans over the budget, readers of liberal websites were subjected to ponderous explanations of "chained CPI," a proposed alternative to the Consumer Price Index that would calculate inflation as growing more slowly.
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A couple of weeks later, at another debate in Milwaukee, Sanders was asked whether he was worried about becoming "the instrument of thwarting history" (Hillary's ponderous, self-thwarting, self-fulfilling prophecy-phrase), by postponing the election of America's first female president.
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With Mr. Schenk's staging, a newcomer to "Die Walküre" watching this father-daughter moment from a balcony seat at the Met may well have found it ponderous: two singers, sitting on a rock, during a long stretch of very slow music.
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A more ambitious proposal, called the Lightning Network, hopes to take the bulk of transactions off the ponderous blockchain system and getting users to trade directly with each other, but after a couple of years in development it remains plagued by reliability problems.
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The French movement was born in anger at the government's attempt to overhaul France's ponderous labor code, in hopes of making it easier for employers to hire and provide jobs for just the kinds of young people who have now occupied the square.
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Co-directors Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, and Jon Nguyen spent many hours with the ponderous, gravely voiced artist in his Los Angeles studio, where he smokes cigarettes, sips coffee, and applies paint to enormous canvases with brushes, palette knives, and his hands.
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The visceral footage previewed at SXSW earlier this year only seemed to underscore the idea that this was going to be a brutal, gory Alien, much closer to the film that fans wanted five years ago than the ponderous, often convoluted story they got.
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The messages varied from the ponderous monologue of Lincoln (written by George W. Saunders and voiced by Pete Simpson), to George Washington on horseback declaring he was not hailing a cab but instead blessing his troops, to Mahatma Gandhi who gave his activist biography.
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One writer, Michael A. Fletcher of ESPN, while covering the convention said the group's traditional approach of working within legal and legislative channels for social change can now seem "ponderous or even irrelevant" because of the "raucous" demonstrations of groups like Black Lives Matter.
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Truth be told, season two ended up being pretty good, all things considered, but it was badly front-loaded with ponderous, too-long episodes that largely took place inside the main character's brain, making the show seem as if it had swallowed itself whole.
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These six paintings, now shown off once again in natural light in a magnificent 19th-century gallery at the heart of the old building, in their ponderous gilded frames and set off against rich maroon walls, are considered among the greatest works of the Renaissance.
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Which is to say: ponderous dialogue, a confusing plot, sci-fi interjections that derail any attachment the player might think he or she has with leading characters, and the general impression that this all might work better as a movie, rather than a game.
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I won't spoil them here, but the afterlife symbols arguably get a little heavy-handed by the end of the movie, and that can make it feel ponderous — like it's trying to explain its own concept rather than inviting viewers to discover it for themselves.
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For instance, telling all of Maui's backstory could grow ponderous; luckily, Maui's enormous body is covered with tattoos that tell his history, and a tiny Maui-shaped tattoo is animated, jumping around his body and serving as a sort of conscience whenever the demigod gets too cocky.
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Their function is to stand sentry at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and outside the residence of Greece&aposs titular head of state, keeping unflinchingly still for hours when not performing a clockwork-soldier routine of ponderous leg and arm swings and crashing presentations of arms.
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Combine them, and you can start to trace a conductor's musical personality, the reason, say, Wilhelm Furtwängler's grand, ponderous Beethoven sounds nothing like John Eliot Gardiner's fleet, bright Beethoven, or why Dudamel's high-energy readings of Schubert are so different from Bruno Walter's warm and patient ones.
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Much of the regular cargo hold main display has been cleared to accommodate a rolling screening of the documentary film, Lottery of the Sea (2006), by Allan Sekula, a frankly ponderous, 179-minute odyssey that tackles some of Sekula's perennial themes: labor, global capitalism, and the sea.
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Mr Osinbajo, currently in charge, has proved an energetic antidote to his ponderous boss, visiting the Delta for peace talks and announcing measures intended to boost Nigeria's position in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business rankings, in which it currently ranks a lowly 169 out of 190.
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LABOR-INTENSIVE, FEW SURPRISES The annual session of China's National People's Congress is labor-intensive to cover, generates few surprises and is thick with ponderous speeches and scripted answers, but with access to officials so scarce in China, it is the closest Beijing gets to a media feeding frenzy.
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An investigation that examines not only the activities of the crown prince but any financial links that Mr. Trump may have with the kingdom would almost certainly be a ponderous affair, and cast a lingering cloud that would chill business leaders' enthusiasm for investment in, and from, the Saudis.
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The works in the show range from a 2450 ink self-portrait of a ponderous 280-year-old Currin, to his 219 oil "Newspaper Couple," in which an elderly man and woman smile at each other serenely despite a jumble of bric-a-brac balanced surreally on their heads.
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The works in the show range from a 2450 ink self-portrait of a ponderous 280-year-old Currin, to his 219 oil "Newspaper Couple," in which an elderly man and woman smile at each other serenely despite a jumble of bric-a-brac balanced surreally on their heads.
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Instead, there is suspense, and a different spectre lurking around every corner—whether it's a manic hyperblast, a ponderous riff, a thrashy break, a snarled word, or one of the many truly torturous, howled vocal spasms that haunt the corridors of this release like so many vengeful ghosts.
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" The biographer concluded that Keifer "is a man of great personal magnetism, a ponderous, earnest, deliberate and pointed speaker, sincere and firm in his convictions, pronounced in his views, a devoted friend and generous enemy: a man of strong home and local attachments and loyal to his friends.
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Much of it consists of ponderous recapitulation of seventh-grade civics lessons (did you know the Third Amendment was passed due to "the resentment that Americans had felt when British soldiers invaded the homes of Americans during the revolution"?), but in many cases, especially in the six (6
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The notion of a Western Wind mass is an alluring one, as if the closed and columned space of a chapel were suddenly to open out, through roof and windows, to the air; or as if the wind were to whistle its way in, giving the ponderous liturgy a lift.
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And Democrats pounced on the fact that Mr. Bounds was undone by long-ago writings, saying the episode legitimized their demand that all documents from Judge Kavanaugh's past work in government should be disclosed, even though it might be a ponderous task to produce them and take weeks to review them.
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Star Trek Beyond has the same gentle good humor as Abrams's films—all three of the reboot movies strive to avoid the ponderous quality of earlier installments—and sometimes you can feel Lin struggling to balance a modern audience's demands for big explosions with creator Gene Roddenberry's desire for more emotional sophistication.
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But there's also a secondary one that's also run throughout the entire series: the war for control of the vampire faction, which is fought via guns, swords, a treacherous political web of intrigue, and a lot of ponderous speeches, usually made while staring off into the middle distance and wearing a lot of black leather.
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Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Washington Post—all invoked one of the greatest, most riveting novels of all time, which in no way has become mere shorthand for a ponderous doorstop of a book that no one in their right mind will ever read in its entirety, just like the Chilcot Report.
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The most interesting mythologies (about the origins of the elves and the orcs and the whole system they've set up) are dashed off in quick montages, while the audience is forced to endure several ponderous, expositional stretches with the cops about how Humans and Elves Don't Trust Each Other and Thus We're Not Really Friends.
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Excess paperwork and ponderous regulation deter small and medium-sized businesses from exporting within North America, says Laura Dawson of the Wilson Centre, a think-tank in Washington, DC. They persist in part because NAFTA matters much more to its smaller members, which trade mainly within the group, than it does to the United States.
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But there is also no question that his abrupt decisions—first raising expectations by so readily and eagerly embracing the prospect of a summit, then dashing them with his unexpected withdrawal and now hinting that he might end up meeting Mr Kim after all—do not fit very well into the ponderous, incremental world of international diplomacy.
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While this humor is ostensibly included to give these works a temporary air of breezy amusement, such as the films of Steven Spielberg, the effect is generally the opposite—it highlights the ponderous, self-serious worldview that most video games above a certain budget (for example, Gears of War or Call of Duty) are required to exhibit.
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So-called quality dailies like The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph are too dense and ponderous for some, Ms. Phillips said, while other readers are put off by the brash tone and overt partisanship of mass-market tabloids like The Sun, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, or The Daily Mirror, which is also owned by Trinity Mirror.
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Television can be many things, but one thing it should be is propulsive, one episode leading the viewer directly into the next; it's not a place where you will find a lot of ponderous art that likes to stretch out its themes over several hours, simply burying its big message—or never stating it at all.
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The Baratheons have been the ruling family of Westeros from Episode 1 to the present, which is a funny thing because there aren't any left, unless you count illegitimate Tommen and Gendry the blacksmith—a composite of the books' ponderous litany of Baratheon bastards—last seen rowing away from Dragonstone in Season 13 and unlikely to return any time soon.
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She's walking around doing eminently practical things — inventorying food against the coming famine, planning for feeding refugees, pointing out defects in the armorers' breastplate schemata — and then he shows up to deliver a bunch of ponderous Polonius circular abstracts about how she should fight every battle at once everywhere so she can never be surprised, and should assume that every possible iteration of events is happening everywhere.
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