| 单词 | ponderosity |
| 例句 | Moments like the mattress story above matter because “On Immunity” is a hothouse flower of a book, self-serious, heavy on the ponderosity. ‘On Immunity: An Inoculation,’ by Eula Biss 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z I thought about the tongue-in-cheek lyrics that di Rosa handed out to the museum’s earliest guests in the late 1990s: “Art here is a healthy remedy / with a laugh at rascality not posing as ponderosity.” Here Are Your Favorite Places to See Art in California 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In promulgating your esoteric cogitation on articulating superficial sentimentalities and philosophical psychological observation, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z I have been reading professional literature steadily for some time, and need a rest from the dignified ponderosity of some of the stuff I had to flounder through. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z If any other country's ruler had expressed himself with equal moral ponderosity wouldn't the population have gone twice as fighting-mad as ours? The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z He might just as well have called it weight or ponderosity, which means the same as gravity. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z The ponderosity and solemnity of the little court occasionally tickled him, and he laughed openly. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Yet did he also bow low under the weight of his own ponderosity, as the author of such a vast load of literature. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z He borrows the carelessness but not the ostentation of the Spectator; the dignity but not the ponderosity of 'Rasselas'; and produces the prose of natural ease, the sweetest English of the century. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The ponderosity and prolixity of Gabriel’s “period of a mile,” are described with a facetious extravagance, which may be given as a specimen of the eloquence of ridicule. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors He might just as well have called it ponderosity. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Madame de Sta�ls party formed a fine contrast to the gloom and ponderosity of Sir Charles Stuart's dinner the day before. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) All his protuberant characteristics are there: the leviathanic egotism, the profound and tenebrous ponderosity, the labored intricacy of the commonplace, the pedagogic moralizing, the oracular inconsequence. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 We have taken the trouble to weigh the copy of this document, which was forwarded to us, and find its ponderosity to be 2 lbs., Cheap Postage But someone remarked that his speaking lacked dignity and weight; so he loaded himself with the works of Edmund Burke; and now he discusses the smallest subject with a ponderosity suited to the largest. Days Off And Other Digressions He was asked to remain, of course, to which he assented, and slipped into his place with a quiet ponderosity which seemed to belong to him. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada With dogmatic ponderosity he declared that the Agreement was losing us the friendship of the other Scandinavian countries, that it was not preventing goods getting into Germany, and that it ought to be abrogated forthwith. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Suddenly the door of the ducal cavern closed in all its metallic ponderosity. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Everything contributed to the impression of immense ponderosity exceeding the imagination. Clayhanger The ponderosity of the large bombards held them to level land, where they were laid on rugged mounts of the heaviest wood, anchored by stakes driven into the ground. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America The officer was a big, burly man, handsome in his way, his ponderosity suggesting a formidable development of muscle rather than fat. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee It was the ponderosity of officialdom, he felt, grown playful, in the face of a passing triviality. Phantom Wires A Novel Consider the solemn ponderosities of the pious old maids, male and female, who write book reviews for the newspapers. A Book of Prefaces The prominent feature of the theory, therefore, is the necessity it will show for the existence of an all-pervading medium, and that it possesses inertia without ponderosity. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence The shrunken body under the flaccid skin slowly took on some semblance of its former ponderosity, the watery eyes slowly lost their dead and vapid stare. Never-Fail Blake The famous sensibility of Sterne was a reaction against the seriousness, the ponderosity, of previous prose literature in England. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters His playing is described as possessing an organ firmness of touch without organ ponderosity, and having an expression that moved deeply without intoxicating. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Mrs. Cleveland wears very well, and Mr. Cleveland is now an alderman, remarkable chiefly for the ponderosity of his person, and the heaviness of his municipal harangues. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales He flew—he lost his sense of ponderosity. Atlantis It had its grand ponderosity in stone and marble sacred to the memory of noble dust, and a throng of poor iron crosses, leaning this way and that amidst the unkempt, tall grasses. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax His opinion of Mrs. Newbolt, her parlor, her ponderosity, and her missing g's, exhausted his vocabulary of opprobrious adjectives; but Eleanor was silent, just putting up a furtive handkerchief to wipe her eyes. The Vehement Flame Then she walked to the hall-window, and watched its further journey along the glistening marble causeway, which dimly reflected its square ponderosity, and the tugging Michael behind it. Bressant It is a slight piece of work, careless and even slovenly in execution, but with an ease and lightness of touch that contrast pleasantly with Thomson's and Akenside's ponderosity. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century "Either handed by you would be sweet" answered the Senator with praiseworthy ponderosity, and he shook out the smile veil until the very roots of his hair became agitated. Rose of Old Harpeth Certainly he was not in the least graceful; that 'ponderosity' of his could in no way be repressed. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The ponderosity of her mind was only equaled by that of her body. The Tinder-Box The seat of the armchair marked in a vast hollow the cumulative ponderosity of the pillars of Church and School who were wont to sit in it. If Winter Comes Taking her all in all, bodily and mentally, there is a certain Teutonic heaviness and tenacity about her—a certain professorial ponderosity of thought which would give me a nightmare. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories He fell back on Blue Books, and other ponderosities--Barton by this time silent, or playing a clumsy chorus. The Testing of Diana Mallory The great breakers boiled over them with the ponderosity peculiar to the waters of the Pacific. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California When he seeks to have a style he falls into ponderosity and pomposity. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold And of ponderosity you must make an effort to cure yourself.—Mind, though a fault, I consider it one on the right side—in the connection, that is, which we have just now been discussing. Deadham Hard Christ, victor over Death and Hell, did not triumph by ponderosity and sinews. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Bodies that have the least ponderosity would presently sink under water. The Existence of God And it is this ponderosity, with its slow but resistless movement, that gives the tank its power. Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam His attitude towards the world was indeed one of conscious ponderosity. Roden's Corner How can he expect ever to rise again, if, while just sinking into his grave, he persists in burdening himself with such a ponderosity of leaden verses? P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") All these act for the season of their respective duration, according to immutable laws, determined by their various properties; arising out of their configuration; depending on their masses; resulting from their ponderosity, &c. The System of Nature, Volume 2 From these general and primitive properties flow a number of others, such as density, figure, colour, ponderosity, &c. The System of Nature, Volume 1 I will not deny, however, that there was a certain ponderosity, both of mind and body, about my friend, that did not very well accord with the general notion of grace and animation. Satanstoe The statue is immensely massive, a vast ponderosity of stone, not finely spiritualized, nor, indeed, fully humanized, but rather resembling a great stone-bowlder than a man. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Monument Mountain and its brethren are green, and the lightness of the tint takes away something from their massiveness and ponderosity, and they respond with livelier effect to the shine and shade of the sky. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. She was a person of no small presence, filling her place, however, without ponderosity, with a massiveness indeed rather artfully kept in bounds. The Awkward Age Maria, a fleer at mere ponderosity, skipped and whisked from left to right with fay-like airiness of foot until a thrill of delight went through the camp. Tropic Days After curing or baking, these fifty pounds weighed only forty-six pounds five ounces, showing a loss in ponderosity of nearly eight per cent. Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe They strike me as infinitely more ridiculous with their important ponderosity concerning the gathered rags of gossip, than even a member of the Second Chamber of Berlin in the full consciousness of his dignity.... Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders The statue is immensely massive, a vast ponderosity of stone, not finely spiritualized, nor indeed, fully humanized, but rather resembling a great stone-boulder than a man. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 But he, fearing the ponderosity of her hand, rarely submitted; his spinal column being delicate, he dared not risk it. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 The younger generation was extinguished, pressed flat and lifeless under the ponderosity of the widows. The Old Wives' Tale If Adelaide's nature, rendered exquisitely sensitive by her rebellious nerves, had combated and lessened Rougon's full-bodied ponderosity, the latter had successfully prevented the young woman's tendency to cerebral disorder from being implanted in the child. The Fortune of the Rougons Imagine the appalling ponderosity of a conversation in which one felt bound to praise every one who was mentioned. From a College Window The unseen then went to the door and locked it, examined the fastenings of the windows carefully and pulled down the blinds, and returning sat down upon the bed with startling ponderosity. Twelve Stories and a Dream Pierre, flattered by his son's confidence, exaggerated that passive ponderosity which made him so impenetrable. The Fortune of the Rougons |
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