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Перевод: ponderous

[прилагательное]
тяжелый; тяжеловесный; увесистый; громоздкий; скучный; тягучий

Тезаурус:

1. At this same time Leslie had voiced his discontent at the "ponderous inefficiency" and "heartless bureaucracy" of the conventional army, and it was then that the ideas in Tom Wintringham's New Ways of War began to influence his thinking.
2. I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road, Bayswater, and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer.
3. She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when someone turns the dial.
4. He stole a chicken from work, and I watched as he stuffed it and sewed it up with needle and thread in his girlfriend's flat, frowning with ponderous alcoholic severity.
5. There has been some increase in equity finance, by listed firms as well as new entrants, but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders (as in Britain, shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues), under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks.
6. Once a few have been mastered it is surprising how quickly the most ponderous sounding scientific name acquires a familiar ring.
7. Styling is less square cut than predecessor's but still pretty ponderous compared with others in the class.
8. Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world's debt burden, and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth, probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy.
9. Bryanston was sold to the TV company Associated Rediffusion in 1965 and the whole rickety infrastructure of an independent British film industry was simply swept under by waves or American finance, with AFM ceasing production in 1964 after Bryan Forbes' ponderous Seance on a Wet Afternoon .
10. East German television, by contrast, focused on ponderous wreath-layings and other ceremonial events in advance of the official birthday, which falls tomorrow.
11. Proper proof, of course, would catapult Mr Winchester into the company of ponderous scholars; one suspects that he (and his readers) would be happier if he remained simply one of literature's best travel writers.
12. The ponderous machinery of the Forest Eyre was once again set in motion - in Berkshire and in Surrey for Windsor Forest, and in Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset.
13. British military reaction had been too slow and ponderous to command respect in the politico-military environment of the post-war world.