ponderous

“He had it, and one saw by looking at him that he did; that was all… . He had to an eminent degree a thoroughly demonic nature, so that hardly anyone else can be compared to him. The Greeks counted demonic natures of that sort among the demigods… . His life was the procession of a demigod… . One may very aptly say of him that he found himself in a state of perpetual inspiration… . He was one of the most productive men who have ever lived.”

–Goethe on Napoleon