ponderosity

I thought about the tongue-in-cheek lyrics that di Rosa handed out to the museum’s earliest guests in the late 1990s: “Art here is a healthy remedy / with a laugh at rascality not posing as ponderosity.”

Poulton wanted the action to move quickly, both to include as much material as he could and also, presumably, to avoid any hint of costume-drama ponderosity.

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

In promulgating your esoteric cogitation on articulating superficial sentimentalities and philosophical psychological observation, beware of platitudinous ponderosity.

I have been reading professional literature steadily for some time, and need a rest from the dignified ponderosity of some of the stuff I had to flounder through.