Quotes About Ponderous

A big book is a big bore.

Some words are like the old Roman galleys; large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very--it's like being a shoemaker. You know, shoemakers stick to your last and you stay there working over your last, and it's pretty drudgy in a lot of ways.

Suddenly, as if the movement of his hand had released it, the load of her accumulated impressions of him tilted up, and down poured in a ponderous avalanche all she felt about him.

Their souls are usually heavy and managerial.

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.

Time seemed, as it always does in adulthood after a particular stretch has concluded, no matter how ponderous or unpleasant the stretch was to endure, to have passed quickly indeed.

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What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

There's not any real forwardness to it. You don't sense it's straining to get anywhere. The thing it makes you see as she reads is something heavy swinging slowly at the end of a long rope.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

It was a scene of ruin and despair, and of a ponderous, timeless, inertial heaviness.

Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at.

Then he took off with ponderous flight and circled and lowered, circled and lowered until the others danced in joy and hunger at his approach.

leaden and laden by the recent past.

Upon the forehead of humanity. All its more ponderous and bulky worth Is friendship

Ron seemed an ideal choice to create the arrangements on 'Atom Heart Mother'. He understood the technicalities of composition and arranging, and his ideas were radical enough to steer us away from the increasingly fashionable but extremely ponderous rock orchestral works of the era.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

I felt as if I was trying to think through syrup.

The body of the ponderous scholarly exegesis that began to bather around Busch in his lifetime and picked up speed after his death is witness to the humorlessness of much writing about humor.