The ponderousness and ambivalence that hang over many of the "grown-up" entries in the genre are absent here; Shazam!
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It fits with the overall self-seriousness and ponderousness of much serial TV these days, even on a cable channel devoted to teenage melodramas.
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He maintained the opening march's solemn steadiness, which never sank into ponderousness and occasionally shocked with whooping brasses that flared and receded like fireworks.
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The overlapping of the VERY intense revenge thriller with the inward ponderousness of a sad bourgeois life worked magnificently for its themes and I found it really marvelous.
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In an era of TV bloat, seeing "A Very English Scandal" choose zippiness over ponderousness is a blessing, but one that occasionally feels more like a compromise than a plan.
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Garabedian isn't letting on, and the gentle, cheeky humor pervading the image — "monumental but gawky," in Samet's phrase — suffuses it with a lightness of touch that escapes any hint of ponderousness.
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The very qualities the mercurial big-city Mr. Sarkozy made fun of, according to Mr. Buisson — Mr. Fillon's rural origins and ponderousness, "his legendary caution and his silences" — earned him favor with the crowd here.
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Shot so beautifully "that it seems bathed in divine light, 'Holy Smoke' has a sensual allure that transcends its deep-seated ponderousness," Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times of this humorously oddball drama from Jane Campion.
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The knowing wink to the idea that the complications of this world boil down to an arcane, impossible-to-understand plot carried out by the secret masters of the universe keeps the film from disappearing into its own ponderousness and allows you to hang with it until the next big action moment.
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Along with the other robots, Gypsy was designed and built by series creator Joel Hodgson. He named Gypsy after a pet turtle his brother once owned, as the robot's size and ponderousness reminded him of the turtle.
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De Blacam also noted Thorndyke's ponderous legal phraseology. However, that pedantic ponderousness is the nature of Thorndyke's character. He is a Barrister and used to weighing his words carefully. He never discusses his analysis until he has built the whole picture.
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The film was reviewed in The New York Times following its American release. The review praised the acting of Wieck, but was less impressed with that of Thiele. While admitting that the director had a natural flair for tragedy, the reviewer thought that the film was sometimes so slow-moving that it lapsed into ponderousness.
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It, however, is satire or humour that does not bruise, but heals. Kamil is metaphysical and introspective as well and in some ways represents the continuity of the quintessence of his own literary tradition minus its ponderousness. He has the quality of being simple as well as profound at the same time. This he does in purely Kashmiri tenor.
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Academic Peter Leech has commented that Toroa (the Māori word for albatross) captures "the paradox of flight in that winged ponderousness and spine muscularity of the bird heaving its half ton-ness off the ground in a ruffle of massive feathers."Peter Leech, "Exhibitions - Dunedin," Art New Zealand, 51 (1989). Another major work, Bridge (1985–86), was commissioned by the University of Otago and stands near the centre of the university campus.
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According to one correspondent, journalists gave him the nickname "Monsignore non mi risulta" ("Monsignor I have nothing on that.") Another reported: "He always imparted the news with the ponderousness he felt it deserved." On 6 November 1984, Pope John Paul II appointed him titular archbishop and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Liberia and Gambia, as well as Apostolic Delegate to Sierra Leone and Guinea. On 16 December, he received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Bernardin Gantin.
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John Wright later reported that circa 1990 the band became profitable enough that "we didn't have to have day jobs." The band released a collaborative LP with Biafra, The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy, in 1991. Shortly thereafter, they issued 0 + 2 = 1, their fifth album and final release with Kerr. In a mixed review, AllMusic critic Adam Bregman praised 0 + 2 = 1 for its finer moments, but was concerned by its overall length and ponderousness.
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Dunedin's Otago Peninsula, visible from the sculpture's site, is the location of the only breeding colony of royal albatross on an inhabited mainland. Academic Peter Leech has commented that Toroa captures "the paradox of flight in that winged ponderousness and spine muscularity of the bird heaving its half ton-ness off the ground in a ruffle of massive feathers."Peter Leech, "Exhibitions - Dunedin," Art New Zealand, 51 (1989). Toroa was originally created from macrocarpa timber, which was prone to weathering, and was reconstructed in South American purpleheart hardwood in 2020.
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" Stephanie Zacharek, for Salon, also gave the film a mixed review, stating: "If you buy the overprocessed headcheese of the serial killer as refined genius, you'll love Red Dragon. Or maybe not. Even Hannibal Lecter devotees may lose patience with this picture's grandiose, self-serious ponderousness—that's Lecterese for, 'It's kind of boring in patches, actually.'" William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer who gave the film a mixed review, said that the film "basically lives up to the old adage that the final work in a trilogy is invariably the weakest.
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Rotten Tomatoes gives Another Earth a rating of 66% based on 128 reviews and an average score of 6.29/10. The critical consensus reads: "Another Earth is often weighed down by placid pacing and ponderousness, but this soulful sci-fi nevertheless offers plenty of profound concepts to ponder." Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four. Ebert commented that, "Another Earth is as thought-provoking, in a less profound way, as Tarkovsky's Solaris, another film about a sort of parallel Earth".
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Rescued from the slough of ponderousness into which it had fallen in its abject and uninspired party service, the editorial was revived, invigorated, and endowed with a vitality that made it the center about which all other features of the newspaper were grouped. It was individual; however large the staff of writers, the editorials were regarded as the utterance of the editor. "Greeley says" was the customary preface to quotations from the Tribune, and indeed many editorials were signed. James Gordon Bennett, Sr., Samuel Bowles (1826–78), Horace Greeley (1811–72), and Henry J. Raymond (1820–69) who were the outstanding figures of the period.
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The original design has neither an italic nor a bold weight, as neither of these existed in Jenson's time. Morris's aim in the Kelmscott Press was to revive the style of early printing and medieval manuscripts, and the design accordingly is a profound rejection of the harsh, industrial aesthetic of the contemporary Didone typefaces used at the time in general-purpose printing, and also of the relatively pallid "modernised old style" designs popular in books. Instead, the design has a relatively heavy "colour" on the page. The design is a loose revival, somewhat bolder than Jenson's original engraving, giving it something of the appearance of medieval blackletter writing, and it has been criticised for ponderousness due to this heavy appearance.
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