ponderously

The dialogue is spiced with profanities and anachronisms, and the plot moves ponderously through a thicket of complications.

Leadership often appears to be everything and nothing at the same time — a mix of trite advice, contradictory analysis and ponderously obvious observation.

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.

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 the beginning, Parnell hints — sometimes ponderously — that bad things are eventually going to happen to his mother, father and brother.