ponderously
Example Sentences
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Leadership often appears to be everything and nothing at the same time — a mix of trite advice, contradictory analysis and ponderously obvious observation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
Making those who have impacted the whole will of course take federal intervention - which often is ponderously slow in arriving.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Public art can sometimes feel ponderously corporate or impersonal, but the unroofed splendor of Pepper’s site-specific works can prompt unexpectedly potent encounters.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2019
They have over the last 40 years emerged ponderously from a colonial world into a neo-colonial one.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2019
He moved ponderously across the room and settled into the armchair, filling it completely.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
