elephantine
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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 feels less oppressive, less elephantine, lighter and more graceful on its feet.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022
Despite Casey’s protestations, the dog somehow ends up in her backpack, and when Clifford blows up to elephantine proportions, it sets off a series of wild adventures through the city.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021
Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.”
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020
Mulch was not one bit surprised that his recyclings had managed to hurl the elephantine Mud Man several yards through the air.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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