ponderously

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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

And so ostensibly political stories rarely take partisan stands, and movies like the ponderously earnest “Stillwater” sink under the weight of their good intentions.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021

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

They have over the last 40 years emerged ponderously from a colonial world into a neo-colonial one.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

Biter rode ponderously beside him on a destrier that looked ready to collapse under his weight.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin