ponderous

Certain dad deaths, though tough, leave ponderous messes to straighten.

The magic of blasting down a wall of water balanced on a few pounds of Styrofoam doesn’t typically translate to the rectangular page; too many efforts feel pompous, ponderous or preening.

The Liberal Democrats accused the government of making "ponderous progress" on the issue, and suggested ministers had succeed in pushing for the bill to be "watered down".

“It is funny that the heaviest of all awards is given by actors — ’us what we do, it means so much,’” he said, mugging ponderous emotion.

Spufford, a Brit, conducted enough research to credibly imagine this milieu, and its smarts about race and religion never feel ponderous or forced.