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Moments like the mattress story above matter because “On Immunity” is a hothouse flower of a book, self-serious, heavy on the ponderosity.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2014

As each day's cares weighed him further down, his literary style reached new depths of wooden ponderosity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Genuine weight, ponderosity even, is lent to this manifesto by the . explanatory information that Ned Wayburn, now turned impresario, is to be Miss Farrar's master of ceremonies.

From Time Magazine Archive

To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various