ponderousness
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It is often assumed that elephantine ponderousness is the price that must be paid for their storytelling heft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Thornton Wilder, whose “Our Town” is the most famous dramatic inheritor of Winesburg’s legacy, cautioned in his stage directions that the play “should be performed without sentimentality or ponderousness — simply, dryly and sincerely.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Its elegiac pacing and atmosphere convey the ponderousness of the nation’s losses at that moment.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2023
The ponderousness of the picture signals itself almost every minute “Freddy’s” illuminates the screen.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
The ponderousness, the delicacy, the involvement of the difficulties were not less in the machinery of the Durande than in the clock of La Charité-sur-Loire.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
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