ponderosity

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Moments like the mattress story above matter because “On Immunity” is a hothouse flower of a book, self-serious, heavy on the ponderosity.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2014

To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

As each day's cares weighed him further down, his literary style reached new depths of wooden ponderosity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Genuine weight, ponderosity even, is lent to this manifesto by the . explanatory information that Ned Wayburn, now turned impresario, is to be Miss Farrar's master of ceremonies.

From Time Magazine Archive

But someone remarked that his speaking lacked dignity and weight; so he loaded himself with the works of Edmund Burke; and now he discusses the smallest subject with a ponderosity suited to the largest.

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry