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Example sentences for: ponderous

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The 21-year-old British author's youth and good looks are cited as major factors in the blockbuster advance ($800,000) and ballyhooed publication of this ponderous gothic novel.
I hit them with surprise quizzes and tests and destroyed them with the ponderous detailed examinations concocted by college professors who assemble high school textbooks.
It was ponderous, authoritative, and dedicated to the proposition that the world was changing slowly enough that giant tomes were the perfect vehicle for communicating information about it.
The first episode of the new Sopranos is a real drag: flat, sour, and ponderous.
But other features seemed pretentious and empty, like a photo spread of male stars and their ponderous quotations.