The forty- or fifty-minute-long piece (depending on how ponderously or not ponderously you play it) seemed almost too short.
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They feel compelled to be smart or maybe just ponderously playful about it.
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It's just so obvious that it leaves room for a ponderously predictable net effect.
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That's because the process of automation — like climate change — is ponderously slow and hugely complex.
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But this approach, which I put forth so ponderously, is gauzy in Hrabal, lightly, artfully deployed.
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Italy has sped up its initial reviews, but its appeals process runs through its ponderously slow courts.
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The departures board is hung ponderously in the middle of the room like a giant guillotine blade.
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An unexpectedly thrilling examination of 1970s Parliament, it relied heavily, though never ponderously, on research and interviews.
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And the intervals between scenes — which feature vintage street photography projections (by Tal Yarden) — feel ponderously long.
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As she listens to the others, Ms. Carey turns to the left, gazing ponderously into empty space.
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He was walking along ponderously, relying on a stick for support and wearing an old khaki Soviet jacket.
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Most of the women passed the time napping, arms curled around their bellies, or ponderously ambling around the room.
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The somewhat heavy-handed comparison serves to highlight that VR uptake is ponderously burdened by hardware adoption and ease of use.
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The company is already ponderously turning its ship away from its Extended Universe plans in order to pursue more standalone films.
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" Between rehearsals, each queen would also make an appearance on Ru's ponderously titled podcast, "RuPaul What's the Tea with Michelle Visage.
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Public art can sometimes feel ponderously corporate or impersonal, but the unroofed splendor of Pepper's site-specific works can prompt unexpectedly potent encounters.
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Throughout the day and night it ponderously flows over the luminous ice cores, quietly asking if our future will be anything like this frozen past.
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Persson wrote a hefty trilogy of deeply researched, if ponderously argued, crime novels based on the unsolved assassination of the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
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Rather than take the leap and sign for Arsenal upon his return from Euro 2016, Vardy ponderously weighed up his options and opted to sign new terms with Leicester.
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If, now that Jon's back, he goes right back to ponderously lecturing about how winter is coming and doing good deeds, then this twist would indeed be a pointless fakeout.
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But neither Ms. Edmundson nor her director, Natalie Abrahami, has unleashed much energy from proceedings that as often as not find characters stepping downstage to linger ponderously in the spotlight.
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" When it was over, I, too, was overcome with the urge to brood, mope and cultivate stubble I could ponderously stroke while asking, "What's the most ridiculous thing about this movie?
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This is practically a laundry list of bad things that can happen to a 12-year-old, and it feels, at the start, as if the movie is going to be ponderously derivative.
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Too many options make the game ponderously slow, with players never getting a chance to see the results of their decisions; too few choices mean that I have potentially predetermined the game's outcomes.
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Mrs Merkel has succeeded by offering her opponents little to criticise: few overarching visions, even less ideology, a ponderously non-committal rhetorical style and an "überparteilich" (above-party) reluctance to be drawn into partisan debate or conflict.
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The problem seems to be that Scott pulls off these dazzling analogies all too easily and that, consequently, he gets mired in this discursive mode in which symbols and interpretations pile ever more ponderously on top of one another.
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Flynn came into the White House wanting to streamline the bureaucracy of the N.S.C., which is staffed mostly by career civil servants from the State Department, the Pentagon, and intelligence agencies, believing that it moved too ponderously under Obama.
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Alas, under the direction of Steven S. DeKnight — who's spent his career working in television, on shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Daredevil — the sequel takes the path of least resistance, becoming less pleasantly erratic, more ponderously predictable.
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The years tick by somewhat ponderously over two hours — 1951, 1954, 1957, 1958 — marked only by the dates on letters written by Guida, reading, in voice-over, from messages she sends to her parents, hoping, futilely, that they will forward them to Eurídice.
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For Nadal, a point is a prize to be earned with hard labor: meticulously, ponderously considered, with his shorts-picking and face-wiping before each serve, and then fiercely contested with all the corner-to-corner sweat and hustle a supreme baseliner and competitor can muster.
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In that way and others, the book is like C.S. Lewis's Narnia series: not blatantly preachy or too ponderously allegorical but integrating long quotations from the Bible and Christian theology into a story that still works whether or not you pick up on the Christian context.
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Unlike his earlier book, "The Age of the Crisis of Man," which set out to trace American humanism and was unavailingly (sometimes ponderously) academic, this collection decodes subjects both Hi and Lo, from the meaning of life and the philosophy of contemporary warfare to the implications of rap and reality television.
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The DISK trial was one of many mass trials that progressed ponderously through the military courts, presided over by high-ranking officers of the Turkish armed forces.Briefing on the Turkey Campaign 1988 by Amnesty International; in a private website; accessed on 24 April 2011 The trial at Istanbul Military Court 2 ended on 24 December 1986.
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Overall, Stacey, found: "It doesn't do to scrutinise the plot's improbable leaps and bounds. Like Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, both of which it superficially resembles, Partners in Crime is supposed to be a rattling, old-style good yarn. The problem is that it creaks more than it rattles, lumbering ponderously from one laboured scene to another".
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It was slow, mysterious, confusing, and I have never forgotten it. Soderbergh's version is more clean and spare, more easily readable, but it pays full attention to the ideas and doesn't compromise. Tarkovsky was a genius, but one who demanded great patience from his audience as he ponderously marched toward his goals. The Soderbergh version is like the same story freed from the weight of Tarkovsky's solemnity.
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Critical reaction to the track was mixed with some reviewers claiming "Show Your Hand" was "ponderously mature" and "more like the generic pop songs one would find on the radio" while others hailed the track as "classic Furries".{ Unlike the two other singles taken from Hey Venus!, "Run-Away" and "The Gift That Keeps Giving", no music video was produced for "Show Your Hand".
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It is a ponderously heroic affair set > in ancient Rome (though the names of the characters suggest Parthia or > India) and replete with tedious intrigue. Schikaneder had lapsed from > pantomime into the stagnant backwash of Metastasio while retaining (in > Beethoven's words to Rochlitz) 'language and verses such as could only > proceed out of the mouths of our Viennese apple-women.'Robinson, Paul (1996) > Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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"Theatres", The Observer, 23 August 1942, p. 1 In both shows, Holloway presented new monologues, and The Times thought a highlight of Fine and Dandy was a parody of the BBC radio programme The Brains Trust, with Holloway "ponderously anecdotal" and Henson "gigglingly omniscient"."Savile Theatre", The Times, 1 May 1942, p. 6 In 1941 Holloway took a character part in Gabriel Pascal's film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, in which he played a policeman.
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The action, later known as the Battle of Shiloh, was the bloodiest of the war to date; Garfield was exposed to fire for much of the day, but emerged uninjured. Major General Henry W. Halleck, Grant's superior, took charge of the combined armies and advanced ponderously toward Corinth; when they arrived, the Confederates had fled. That summer Garfield suffered from jaundice and significant weight loss. He was forced to return home, where his wife nursed him back to health.
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The mistaken impression that poison was involved, and even that the baroness had poisoned the Crown Prince and then killed herself, would persist for some time. Graf (Count) Hoyos did not look any closer, but rushed to the station and took a special train to Vienna. He hurried to the Emperor's Adjutant General, Graf Paar, and requested him to break the shocking news to the Emperor. The stifling protocol that characterised every movement in the Hofburg swung ponderously into action.
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The memoirs of a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot recount his first operation with the Squadron, with Stirlings taxiing "ponderously" along a: "...perimeter track [which] ran within a hundred yards of Chedburgh's pub, before which the locals . . . had assembled for their nightly show."Peden, Murray, "A Thousand Shall Fall," Dundurn (April 1 2003), p 244 The target was Hanover. At a time when Stirling losses led to the aircraft being withdrawn from bombing Germany the squadron transferred to RAF Downham Market in December 1943.
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No harm will be done, since the King offers Chabot a pardon. The King and Court are shocked when the innocent Chabot refuses the pardon offered him — for he has committed no crime. Chabot, his honor wounded to the quick, dies, as though he has received a physical wound. Chabot has been judged as unusual among Chapman's French histories in its emotionally effectiveness; where Chapman's "plays normally develop rather ponderously,"Peter Ure, "Chapman's Tragedies," in: Jacobean Theatre, John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris, eds.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 3.03/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Equal parts plot holes and unintentional laughs, Replicas is a ponderously lame sci-fi outing that isn't even bad enough to be so bad it's good." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 19 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale.
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GN had the advantage in the east as it had completed the line to Princeton from Grand Forks, although much of it in American territory; the CPR had the advantage in the west, as it had built to Hope and had a line to the coal mines of Merritt. Filling in the gaps from Grand Forks to Hope presented a few problems. There were mountains, narrow canyons, high plateaux, and steep grades. There was also a ponderously slow and politically susceptible Board of Railway Construction and its government masters in Ottawa.
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The New York Times gave the film a positive review: "If The Lodger was designed to chill the spine—as indeed it must have been, considering all the mayhem Mr. Cregar is called upon to commit as the mysterious, psychopathic pathologist of the title—then something is wrong with the picture. But, if it was intended as a sly travesty on the melodramatic technique of ponderously piling suspicion upon suspicion (and wrapping the whole in a cloak of brooding photographic effects), then The Lodger is eminently successful."The New York Times, film review, January 20, 1944. Accessed: July 4, 2013.
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Vincent Canby of The New York Times described the film as "gadget-happy American moviemaking at its most ponderously silly," and called Julie Christie "too sensible an actress to be able to look frightened under the circumstances of her imprisonment." Variety wrote in a positive review, "All involved rate a well done for taking a story fraught with potential misstep and guiding it to a professionally rewarding level of accomplishment." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one-and-a-half stars out four, writing that Julie Christie "has no business in junk like 'Demon Seed.'"Siskel, Gene (April 5, 1977).
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LDV Convoy pictured in Royal Mail livery on the Isle of Mull. Note the narrow track when compared with the Vauxhall Combo behind it. The drivetrain was available with a large number of engines (both turbocharged and non-turbocharged pre-Duratorq), sourced from Peugeot on early models, but engines from 1998 were mostly sourced from Ford, such as the York 'banana' engines which were described as 'dated', 'noisy' and 'ponderously slow', but 'dependable' and 'willing' with 'excellent cold starting' and offering 'lively performance'. The Peugeot engines were praised as 'economical', often seen as more so than many of the Ford units.
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Hadrosaurus were ponderously-built animals equipped with keratinous beaks for cropping foliage and a specialized and complex dentition for food processing. Hadrosaurus foulkii, the only species in this genus, is known from a single specimen consisting of much of the skeleton and parts of the skull. The specimen was collected in 1858 from the Woodbury Formation in New Jersey, US, representing the first dinosaur species known from more than isolated teeth to be identified in North America. Using radiometric dating of bivalve shells from the same formation, the sedimentary rocks where the Hadrosaurus fossil was found have been dated at some time between 80.5 and 78.5 million years ago.
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It has been claimed that the sacking was due to Reith being difficult to work with. However, given the absence of direct contact between the two men during Reith's period in several ministerial positions, this is unlikely to be the true reason. More plausible, is the explanation given above, and the cleavage between Reithian management methods: energetic, thorough and highly organised, and the established style of the British civil service at that time: at best, calm and deliberative; at worst, ponderously slow. Reith also frequently references in his autobiography departmental jealousies resulting from his ministerial activities, reported to him by colleagues such as Sir John Anderson, wartime Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Churchill coalition.
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His favorites were "Steaks" by Allen Varney ("a compact, charming, nicely staged gaming vignette with a clever central plot device") and "Terror in Skytumble Tor" by Paul Jaquays ("a sharp little adventure with clever plot devices and vivid NPCs in a derelict sky castle that is ponderously tumbling end-over-end toward the earth"). Rolston felt that while reading long modules could be rather dull, these short adventures were a good length. He considered them long enough to present an idea, but short enough to read straight through without getting bored, and "the varied tones — some light and clever, some earnest and heroic — make for a more pleasant reading experience". He concluded that "the adventures here are comfortably conventional in their AD&D; game feel, and can easily be slipped into a typical house campaign".
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And they are never ponderously set-in here. Indeed, finding these “variously contending discourses” present in the music of these poems, provides a sort of blesséd relief, as they come round and accumulate, and reward Seamus Heaney's injunction that a poem's reason for being is to provide “the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.” Again, when you come to the end of this book you feel that something important has been stabilized – and beautifully – and asks our assent. these 20 poems both embody but also reconcile with their own “airs” – perfectly accessible, even conversational, with cunning interior rhymes, and deftly-encrypted structures that please without baffling or showing off—their diction so finely installed as to be noticeable only after the fact, which entices us to re- reading, and deepening our confidence that our attention's being masterfully superintended.
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The rotating hut in the garden of Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, where Shaw wrote most of his works after 1906 Shaw's first major work to appear after the war was Heartbreak House, written in 1916–17 and performed in 1920. It was produced on Broadway in November, and was coolly received; according to The Times: "Mr Shaw on this occasion has more than usual to say and takes twice as long as usual to say it". After the London premiere in October 1921 The Times concurred with the American critics: "As usual with Mr Shaw, the play is about an hour too long", although containing "much entertainment and some profitable reflection". Ervine in The Observer thought the play brilliant but ponderously acted, except for Edith Evans as Lady Utterword. Shaw's largest-scale theatrical work was Back to Methuselah, written in 1918–20 and staged in 1922.
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The company's initial campaign aimed to bring about brand awareness with Zen-influenced spots that focused on nature and tranquility, without showing the actual cars. Designers decided not to adorn the interiors with wood accents and chrome brightwork, opting instead for a monochrome, organic and rounded surface appearance, focusing on padded leather and vinyl throughout. Some buyers had faux wood appliques added to areas surrounding the center console and around the interior door handles. The only item that had a bright appearance was the centrally installed analog clock in all models, a design that is currently maintained by the designers. By the mid-1990s, Infiniti was lagging behind Lexus and Acura in sales. The Q45 had retreated considerably from its focused, taut rendition of a sporty full-size luxury sedan, having become a barely recognizable, ponderously handling sedan that earned the nickname "The Japanese Lincoln". In the summer of 1998, Infiniti revived the G20, based on the JDM Nissan Primera, a compact sport sedan. The second generation G20 was marketed as a competitor to European entry-level luxury sport sedans, but it now weighed more than the first generation version.
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