Slowly, ploddingly, his mind went over the evidence.

The musicians had spent all their fine frenzy by now, and played only one tune, wearily, ploddingly.

By the end of the debate, it was still unclear what possible managerial advantages lay in being ploddingly earnest.

Christopher now reads at grade level, although ploddingly.

Radicals thought the document lacked immediate effectiveness and soon found its implementation ploddingly slow.

There is movement not just of the river flowing downstream, but of the cattle moving ploddingly uphill.

It's glamorously art-directed, but ploddingly directed - and written.

The crisis has already hurt a ploddingly slow effort to rebuild the mainly Shiite areas that were severely damaged in the war.

They ploddingly, often repetitively, detail Stern's touring schedules, philanthropic activities and family life.

The final coda, which ploddingly recapitulates the work's visual themes, is completely redundant.

We don't have time for the FDA to ploddingly take half-measures.

He was dazed and slow-spoken, responding to questions ploddingly and not always sensibly.

Through the glass of the French doors he could see the top of an umbrella, ploddingly ascending the twenty-five steps.

That's the centerpiece of "A to Zap," a program that is both chirpy and ploddingly didactic at the same time.

The book is ploddingly predictable, except for one out-of-sequence appearance by a later wife who is impatient for her turn.

There was a new word a fellow just coined at Cambridge for people who were ploddingly methodical like Alvin: scientist.

Daniel Doyce, still wiping his forehead, ploddingly repeated.

Forget bounding across the forest, Shalkan moved as ploddingly as if each step was an effort.

The difference between Nascar and Indycar racing is ploddingly outlined.

If only the score weren't so ploddingly melancholy; and if only the ensemble's horns were up to its considerable challenges.

She decides what she must become, whom she must be, and then goes about it methodically and ploddingly.

And that was the third reason that he walked ploddingly with his koloss, rather than returning immediately to his camp.

Their similarity, apart from the primitivism of their styles, is that they're both ploddingly didactic about their subject matter.

Some stretches are artfully jagged and enigmatic, some are so ploddingly detailed that you want to send him a blue pencil.

This ploddingly thorough account of Alec Guinness's professional life traces his enigmatic career to multiple, often competing ambitions.