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

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 movie sports more personality than most low-budget thrillers, yet sometimes devolves into the kind of ponderousness that a collaborator might have second-guessed. 

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2016

One of the most learned of the group was George Chapman, whose verse has a Jonsonian solidity not unaccompanied with Jonsonian ponderousness.

From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington