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The findings were presented in a ponderous three-volume report.ponderous = large and not elegant (unwieldy or boring)
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We've been working through the ponderous regulatory approval process for the last two years.ponderous = slow and unwieldy
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The steps in the gravel sounded heavy and ponderous, like those of a large man. (source)ponderous = slow and unwieldy -- especially because of size
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The sun was a ponderous circle without edges, a roar without a sound, (source)ponderous = very large
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He shook his ponderous head. (source)ponderous = large
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He examined it for a long time, tracing the sentences with his pencil, a ponderous reader whose thick black eyebrows kept bunching in the manner of a child having difficulty with a complex puzzle. (source)ponderous = slow and with difficulty
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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. (source)ponderous = slow
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BRADY re-enters and crosses ponderously to the RADIO MAN. (source)ponderously = slowly in an unwieldy manner
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As always when he passed the Parthenon Shoe Shine Parlor, a one-story hut which beside the granite and red-brick ponderousness of the old California Building resembled a bath-house under a cliff, he commented, "Gosh, ought to get my shoes shined this afternoon.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery—go! (source)ponderous = very large
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He moved ponderously across the room and settled into the armchair, filling it completely.† (source)
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It was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth; it must truly have been amazed that morning through all its ponderous frame as it felt this determined spark of human spirit wending its way from higher branch to branch. (source)ponderous = large
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The old man blew his nose ponderously and wiped his eyes.† (source)
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As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell—the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed, threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. (source)
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But she stayed anyway, next to Saeed on the naked earth that had been stripped of plants by hundreds of thousands of footsteps and rutted by the tires of ponderously heavy vehicles, feeling for the first time unwelcome.† (source)
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The walls were hung with gorgeous curtains, which imparted the combination of grandeur and grace that no other species of adornment can achieve; and as they fell from the ceiling to the floor, their rich and ponderous folds, concealing all angles and straight lines, appeared to shut in the scene from infinite space. (source)
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