All 7 Uses of
ponderous
in
Catch-22
- He brooded in ponderous speculation over the cryptic message he had just received.†
Chpt 4 *
- Yossarian was alone in a ponderous, primeval lull in which everything green looked black and everything else was imbued with the color of pus.†
Chpt 14
- The colonel's ponderous, farinaceous cheeks were tinted suddenly with glowing patches of enthusiasm.†
Chpt 19
- He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.†
Chpt 20
- He had a nurse and a son-in law, and he was prone to long, ponderous silences when he had not been drinking too much.†
Chpt 21
- Colonel Cathcart would never forget the first evening General Dreedle took notice of the chaplain in the officers' club, lifting his ruddy, sweltering, intoxicated face to stare ponderously through the yellow pall of cigarette smoke at the chaplain lurking near the wall by himself.†
Chpt 25
- The remaining wing revolved as ponderously as a grinding cement mixer as the plane plummeted nose downward in a straight line at accelerating speed until it struck the water, which foamed open at the impact like a white water lily on the dark-blue sea, and washed back in a geyser of apple-green bubbles when the plane sank.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(ponderous) large or of great weight; or slow and unwieldy -- especially because of size
or
boring -- especially because of length