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Meanings of ponderosity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "heft"
Examples for "heft"
1
The Liebs' money carried a lot more heft than some simple law.
2
Demonstrating opposition along the approved route could add heft to anti-pipeline efforts.
3
The very heft of the hieroglyphic-covered band suggested it had special power.
4
Nat believed there was more than just physical heft to these materials.
5
The already heavy concentration of simultaneous risks has gained even more heft.
1
All these public edifices have a uniform character of massiveness and solidity.
2
It gives but a quivering shade and has no massiveness, nor symmetry.
3
Their extraordinary largeness and massiveness are a satire on their present fate.
4
It speaks of stability, elevation, massiveness, and of defence and security.
5
What heads those must have been that could bear such massiveness!
1
He believed that ponderousness and extension were qualities indispensable to eloquence.
2
In the son's case, the father's ponderousness had turned to gravity.
3
David Saunderson was the embodiment of ponderousness; he spoke as slowly as he moved his cumbersome limbs.
4
Booming, but with a hint of laughter in his ponderousness, the Lord Chancellor let fly once more.
5
The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure.
1
The fear of speaking up could be possibly tarnish their personal brands and affect the heftiness of their wallets.
Usage of ponderosity in English
1
Everything contributed to the impression of immense ponderosity exceeding the imagination.
2
His attitude towards the world was indeed one of conscious ponderosity.
3
Bodies that have the least ponderosity would presently sink under water.
4
Christ, victor over Death and Hell, did not triumph by ponderosity and sinews.
5
The younger generation was extinguished, pressed flat and lifeless under the ponderosity of the widows.
6
Pierre, flattered by his son's confidence, exaggerated that passive ponderosity which made him so impenetrable.
7
The great breakers boiled over them with the ponderosity peculiar to the waters of the Pacific.
8
He announces it with such ponderosity that the world believes it's as prodigious as his sentences!
9
It was the ponderosity of officialdom, he felt, grown playful, in the face of a passing triviality.
10
He flew-helost his sense of ponderosity.
11
Certainly he was not in the least graceful; that 'ponderosity' of his could in no way be repressed.
12
The famous sensibility of Sterne was a reaction against the seriousness, the ponderosity, of previous prose literature in England.
13
But he, fearing the ponderosity of her hand, rarely submitted; his spinal column being delicate, he dared not risk it.
14
The officer was a big, burly man, handsome in his way, his ponderosity suggesting a formidable development of muscle rather than fat.
15
After curing or baking, these fifty pounds weighed only forty-six pounds five ounces, showing a loss in ponderosity of nearly eight per cent.
16
His playing is described as possessing an organ firmness of touch without organ ponderosity, and having an expression that moved deeply without intoxicating.
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Ponderosity through the time