Sentences with phrase «as staid»

Ms. Hughes» whorling environs and blasts of color touch upon the amped up glory of the Hudson River School landscapes and how their artificial majesty can merely be viewed as staid, grown - up version of the dream - memory fusions that originate in the childhood mind.

In all honesty the Battle Focus mode is probably the area where The Bureau shines the most, as the staid and familiar third person cover and shoot mechanics, whilst solid, aren't anything particularly new or exciting.

But I think Ford has a shot at boosting sales of passenger versions by also pitching this as a cool vehicle that fits all kinds of lifestyles, and not just as a staid, commercial cargo van.

With VW's Mk4 Golf on the horizon Ford had made a big quality push, but when the Golf arrived it couldn't compete with the Ford's dynamics and for a company as staid as Ford had been in the preceding decade or two, the sharp «new edge» styling was bang up to date.

Volvos tend to have a reputation as staid boxes for dull drivers.

Conversely, the Corolla comes off as staid and boring.

Gradually, the pictures, mainly portraits, take on more and more touches of color; at the turning point of the story, when Masako leaves her parents» home for the city of Osaka, the bright red of her dress practically jumps off the page as staid passersby in brown and gray traditional clothing look at her in shock.

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Whereas Apple's old logo connoted the free spirit of an upstart that was taking on staid tech giants, its current position as one of the most valuable corporations in the world calls for the sleek, futuristic logo it has now.

The idea of trend hunting started out as an insurgency on the edge of the staid, respectable market research industry.

Poloz's appointment was as stunning as it gets in the staid world of monetary policy — which is to say it was a mild surprise.

Critics of recent changes at the CBC dismiss Lang as another «money honey,» a good - looking woman hired to sex up the staid world of business news.

It has been especially intense as leaders of staid categories, such as hospitality, transportation, and finance, realize their entire industry could be flipped on its head by some kids with an app.

After a two - day rally, the offshore renminbi rose as much as 2.5 percent, to 6.7853 against the dollar on Thursday, an exceptional gain for a currency that is usually subject to staid trading.

As a steward of pension funds and retirement accounts, Neuberger Berman has traditionally employed a staid strategy familiar among big Wall Street money managers: Buy and hold stocks, sit back, and hope for the best.

As discussed in last week's blog, under Tom Donohue's leadership, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has gone from a rather staid business advocacy organization with ties to both political parties to one that has become rabidly partisan.

As professional women increasingly want outfits they can wear to the yoga studio, as well as the office, the retailer is trying to play catch up and put its more staid image behind iAs professional women increasingly want outfits they can wear to the yoga studio, as well as the office, the retailer is trying to play catch up and put its more staid image behind ias well as the office, the retailer is trying to play catch up and put its more staid image behind ias the office, the retailer is trying to play catch up and put its more staid image behind it.

This approach - look at me, honestly wrestling with doubt and modernity, unlike the rest of you unquestioning drones who just believe what The Man tells you - is hardly new, and the desire to be seen as a brave, innovative rebel rather than a staid, boring upholder of orthodoxy, is a strong one and has doubtless been the root of many a heresy.

Staid team dinners of the past, described as «militaristic,» have become more social.

Le Prof is very staid when it comes to contracts and the fact that Giroud signed a new extension just last year makes me think that he will not let him go at all, especially when you consider his excellent performances as a supersub in the last campaign, and if Alexis leaves then he could be fulfilling exactly the same role behind Lacazette this year.

If social democrats step back from their own national focus and look at the bigger picture, they will realize just how vulnerable and ideologically staid European social democracy as a political movement currently is.»

When Karen Hinton threw a party last year as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's newly appointed press secretary, it wasn't the staid reception some expected.

The two nonprofits» boards and bylaws were reworked, and a staid civil servant was installed as their president.

Mr. Stringer has pursued that campaign, as a self - described social justice advocate, within the confines of a staid role: serving as the city's accountant and the steward of its nearly $ 160 billion pension fund.

From Évariste Galois, the genius who laid the foundations for modern group theory before dying at 20 in a mysterious duel, to René Descartes, who wrote «I think, therefore I am» after a career as a mercenary, the personalities chronicled here expose a side of mathematics far removed from its usual staid reputation.

The ordinarily staid National Weather Service described it as «biblical.»

Citing McNutt's long record, including teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as chief executive of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California and, later, as director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Colwell said, «Marcia has the credentials that will alleviate the unease that will occur among some of the more staid and arch-conservative members.»

Think swapping a nude gloss for an equally as subtle but utterly sophisticated burgundy tint, or ditching the staid black blazer for a patterned jacket.

However, if you want a slightly more staid experience, you could aim for office hour haunts such as the museums, or attractions such as the SS Great Britain and Bristol Zoo.

But then, as the two love birds settle into married life, Albert's ex suddenly returns to reek havoc upon their staid existence

As such, it's rather staid and old - fashioned, despite its jumbled chronology and dreamlike flashbacks.

The portrait of Lincoln that Spielberg presents — in a film that often plays like a tense, high - spirited political thriller as influence is peddled behind the scenes and votes come down to the wire — will no doubt surprise viewers raised on a more staid version of the Great Man.

As Steve Jobs taught us last year, biopics do nt have to be staid, predictable, cradle - to - grave dramas.

For director Todd Haynes, this provides another chance to explore repressed gay love in the staid 1950s, as he did in Far From Heaven.

In an interesting twist, the show was actually filmed by a half dozen fans selected via an online contest, so the footage, as edited together, courses with a free - wheeling immediacy lacking in the staid, singer - drummer - audience - singer cuts of many similarly minded concert docs.

But as period dramas go, this one feels a little stiff and staid.

As a director, the work is staid and very constricted by its faithfulness to the material, which Wilson had adapted himself before his death in 2005.

As the fictional landscape designer Sabine de Barra, hired to create the Rockwork Grove amphitheater at Versailles, she stands in defiance of social and aesthetic convention even while the film itself never bursts its staid costume - drama seams.

The mystery plot is somewhat staid: a series of revelations as the crime - solving duo of Arno and Giordani follow up on each of the nine leads they uncover (hence the film's title).

The chief problem of the film lies in a confusion between irony and idolization; Glyn's arch narration, superfluous as it is, provides the film its only cattiness, the staid Agatha Christie parlour game functioning as its unusually disinteresting MacGuffin — its «meow.»

That's because aside from offering up a few silly scares, a genuine laugh here and there, and a photogenic cast of young people that look like they're right off the set of Pretty Little Liars (of which, Whitey Able scores some laughs as a bitchy mean girl while Anson Mount smolders accordingly) there really isn't much to Levine's stylish and staid first feature.

But before the staid numbers - cruncher realizes what he's getting into, it's too late to get out, as his increasingly unpredictable new friend drags him through a world of shoot - outs, double - crosses and espionage that could get them both killed in more ways than Calvin can count.

Starring Saoirse Ronan as the eponymous high school student over her senior year as she navigates filial, romantic, and platonic relationships in the staid environs of Sacramento, it is one of the sweetest and most deeply felt films of the year.

While Khibula is an impressive rumination on the downfall of power, it is nevertheless a self - serious and staid tale of great men that feature women only as wide - eyed serving girls, incidental sexual partners or elderly haranguing villagers.

Metz's film makes the matches as exhilarating as any car chase and as impactful as a prize fight, owing more to Raging Bull than the traditional, staid ways that tennis is captured on television.

«All the Stars» (the song from over the closing credits) strikes me as a classic Oscar nominee, and Lamar and SZA would light up a staid ceremony with their performance.

Throughout the last three films Palpatine has staid fast as one of the best realised characters.

This brilliant time capsule documentary captures Americana unfolding as»60s experimentalism eclipses the staid sentiments of the fading»50s.

«The Florida Project» at times suggests a more staid offshoot of that film, as if it were about just one of the characters, who had gone off and had a child but was still hustling — and fighting — the world.

Besides its tense, edgy action, the film is notable for the way the son's image of his dad as a boring, staid materialist is progressively eroded as his past in the CIA gradually comes to light, as well as for the provocative way in which literal and metaphorical (the antagonistic entities who work against the protagonists) notions of family collide and contrast.

As the 17 - year - old protagonist in a staid Swiss town, Loane Balthasar is unnervingly transparent, giving herself over to her character.»