Meanings of ponderousness in anglès

He believed that ponderousness and extension were qualities indispensable to eloquence.

In the son's case, the father's ponderousness had turned to gravity.

David Saunderson was the embodiment of ponderousness; he spoke as slowly as he moved his cumbersome limbs.

Booming, but with a hint of laughter in his ponderousness, the Lord Chancellor let fly once more.

The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure.

Ovid is brisker and more obviously to the purpose; but Ariosto gives the ponderousness and dreary triumph of the monster.

One of the most learned of the group was George Chapman, whose verse has a Jonsonian solidity not unaccompanied with Jonsonian ponderousness.

The great fellow came abruptly to his feet, not with the ponderousness of most giants, but with a panther-like agility and smoothness.

The plan was undoubtedly sound, but the general's want of balance caused him to overweight it, until its own ponderousness was its destruction.

Geary hadn't fully appreciated until now just how solid and reassuring that kind of ponderousness could be when others were dashing around in alarm.

Carey would certainly be Australia's second literature Nobel laureate if the prize didn't seem to reward obscure ponderousness at least as often as true excellence.

He believed that ponderousness and extension were qualities indispensable to eloquence.

In the son's case, the father's ponderousness had turned to gravity.

David Saunderson was the embodiment of ponderousness; he spoke as slowly as he moved his cumbersome limbs.

Booming, but with a hint of laughter in his ponderousness, the Lord Chancellor let fly once more.

The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure.