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

It’s not easy managing the ponderousness of O’Neill’s writing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

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 plan was undoubtedly sound, but the general's want of balance caused him to overweight it, until its own ponderousness was its destruction.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.