ponderously

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Family crises that some might view as a call to action mostly just enervate her: She doesn’t need another reminder that middle age can be overwhelmingly hard and ponderously boring.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 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

The whole superstructure stumbled, recovered itself, stumbled again, and sank down ponderously on its left side.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White