| What saves Auster's story from ponderousness is the sheer verve with which he follows his narrator through the labyrinthine plot. |
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| But Mr Blair frets that Mr Brown will be cruelly exposed by his ponderousness and caution when he becomes prime minister. |
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| Nancy and Miller exhibited the painfully protracted, predictable ponderousness which has become the hallmark of deconstruction in its senescent phase. |
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| Same thing goes for the steering, which proves well-mannered, though it does leave an impression of ponderousness that's hard to describe. |
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| Customers are free to meander around the rails as they wish, and comfortable armchairs are often supplied to facilitate a little sartorial ponderousness. |
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| The passes zipped around with first-time conviction instead of the multi-touch ponderousness of many recent games. |
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| The special underscores, with a deliberate lack of subtlety and with a clear intent to be funny, the ponderousness that the documentary form is prone to, but that quality also occasionally infects the show itself. |
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| Whatever others thought of Wagner's vocal writing and ponderousness, none could deny his control of harmony, dramatic structure, and orchestration. |
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| The complexity of our institutions, the ponderousness of our regulatory mechanisms and the length of time it takes to achieve consensus are today seen as obstacles to European political action. |
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