ponderous

Modifies a noun

• style: An interesting narrative technique, using a variety of texts; journals, letters etc. Quite a ponderous style.
• pace: The ponderous pace of legal action imposes huge extra strain on couples and adds invisible costs in diverted energy and lost working time.
• mass: The revised Newtonian demands an i-ther of non-uniform density which reduces with distance from a ponderous mass, like the Sun.
• thought: Musing maketh the fire burn, ponderous thoughts are the bellows that blow it up.
• way: In his ponderous way Munslow makes a great meal of this.
• bureaucracy: Only now we do not have the time needed for Europeâs ponderous bureaucracy to mince around the issue.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: In Messiah we heard a sonorous interpretation of the Overture from Nigel Allcoat who also gave us a rather ponderous version of Pastoral.
• too: But this didn't sound like a wasp - it was far too ponderous and low a buzz.
• little: Perhaps a little ponderous at times ( thus accounting for its length of just over 3 hours ).
• very: After this is became very ponderous, and never again rowed so well.
• extremely: At over two and half hours long it's extremely ponderous and the hand-held camera work is more distracting than artful.
• somewhat: Showing the East London Town ( now City ) Hall, a verandahed stone building with a somewhat ponderous clocktower set at one corner.

Used with adjective complement

• look: The confidence had gone out of City's play, they looked ponderous.
• seem: Set against these are a small number of larger works, which seem more ponderous.
• become: After this is became very ponderous, and never again rowed so well.