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Meanings of ponderousness 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
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.
1
The fear of speaking up could be possibly tarnish their personal brands and affect the heftiness of their wallets.
Usage of ponderousness in English
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.
6
Ovid is brisker and more obviously to the purpose; but Ariosto gives the ponderousness and dreary triumph of the monster.
7
One of the most learned of the group was George Chapman, whose verse has a Jonsonian solidity not unaccompanied with Jonsonian ponderousness.
8
The great fellow came abruptly to his feet, not with the ponderousness of most giants, but with a panther-like agility and smoothness.
9
The plan was undoubtedly sound, but the general's want of balance caused him to overweight it, until its own ponderousness was its destruction.
10
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.
11
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.
12
He believed that ponderousness and extension were qualities indispensable to eloquence.
13
In the son's case, the father's ponderousness had turned to gravity.
14
David Saunderson was the embodiment of ponderousness; he spoke as slowly as he moved his cumbersome limbs.
15
Booming, but with a hint of laughter in his ponderousness, the Lord Chancellor let fly once more.
16
The towering closeness of these on each hand, their impenetrability, and their ponderousness, are felt as a physical pressure.
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Ponderousness through the time