ponderousness

For some the performance might have been restrained to the point of ponderousness.

This ponderousness, I see now, reflects the rhythms of the land.

It wasn't the same physical ponderousness that had made me open my eyes when the snake appeared.

The ledge came down, its ponderousness doubled by the absence of sound.

He seems always to have one foot in the door so as to be able to exit fast should anyone accuse him of ponderousness.

His brain moved with a mocking ponderousness, deliberately not helping.

But the post-beatnik ponderousness of the project made it hard to endure.

Straining, they eased his sudden ponderousness to the deck beyond.

But in fact the colored lights vanished, and with solemn ponderousness the great door began to open.

As it turned out, the ponderousness of the Bruckner sank the entire enterprise.

Here, however, a natural ponderousness was not mitigated but, instead, heavily underlined.

There's potential for ponderousness here, but the direction is fanciful, at times surreal, and full of surprises.

Out of nearly 150 pieces, there are some memorable, well-polished moments, but also much repetition and ponderousness.

If a touch of ponderousness weighted the proceedings, that had nothing to do with the dancers' talents.

The line is delivered with jokey philosophical ponderousness, but the production takes its meaning seriously.

The other pieces were abstract, and there was a massive quality to them, a ponderousness suggestive of sea monsters.

But its ponderousness cannot be denied, either.

Vinoly's athletic spring contrasts sharply with the ponderousness of recent stadium design.

His bulk hinted at endurance, rather than ponderousness.

And he finds the delighted theatricality behind Pirandello's ostensible ponderousness.

At first glance he is an eminently normal guy, average to the point of ponderousness, save for a few small psychological tics.

However, the impression left, even at the slowest tempos, was not of deliberation or ponderousness, but inevitability.

Mercurial flexibility, by that line of thought, might be more appropriate in places, just the right antidote to unrelieved ponderousness.

It seems overcooked rather than overblown; the ponderousness of the novel swamps the fable.

Its dark, brooding ponderousness dwarfed the approaching spacecraft.