Meanings of so ponderous in English

Twelve of them it took to carry it, so ponderous it was.

Can so lovely a thing be burdened with so ponderous a smell?

She did not conceive it would be so ponderous a task.

Canada's mineral showing was so ponderous as to exceed the weight of 125 tons.

But the peculiar conviviality of the day is so ponderous!

From far away down the tunnel came those muffled steps, so soft and yet so ponderous.

Wolves with their billowy shirts, long shorts and big heavy boots seemed so ponderous in comparison.

But there is the violin, now!-thatcan be as sad as any organ, without being so ponderous.

There were those who claimed that love at one gee was so ponderous that they could no longer enjoy it.

It was pretty, it was playful; and his mind, if so ponderous a vehicle could indulge in such activity, was fond of play.

In another man, this way of speaking-soponderous, so Jehovah-like ,asshe herself had teasingly called it-wouldhave seemed to Helen intolerably grotesque.

"That sounds so ponderous," she murmured.