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But other features seemed pretentious and empty, like a photo spread of male stars and their ponderous quotations.
In the version of that argument given in What It Means , he asserts that "most government interventions are ineffectual" because "modern society has the inertia of a ponderous freight train."
They can be ponderous, conventional, and gimmicky--and miraculously, sometimes all three at once.
It is not: "In the latter Tang dynasty," says the wall panel, "Buddhist images tended to become more ponderous, fleshy, and overly ornate, completely departing from the slender and ethereal beauty characteristic of many sixth-century sculptures."
He tells of Hitler's love of romantic poetry and "creamy Viennese cakes"--the only exceptions, apparently, to his unyielding asceticism--and speculates, in ponderous footnotes studded with citations from Kierkegaard, on the theological nature of evil.