Sentences with phrase «for staid»

He thought I might be a bit too out - there for the staid medical set.

As if to compensate for the staid gameplay, the game's production value and narrative are ambitious and hyper - stylized.

Who is responsible for the staid practicality of Times New Roman, the cool anonymity of Arial, or the irritating levity of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)?

The formal setting is interrupted by purple stitching, an unconventional move for the staid brand.

With less experience comes less entrenchment within the Whitehall machinery so often blamed for staid thinking and a lack of imagination.

Not exact matches

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.

Whackjob fanatic or not, almost two centuries after his prudish ah - ha moment, we still have staid Sylvester Graham to thank for the graham cracker, the salty - sweet crumbly crusts to our cheesecakes and the sturdy tops and bottoms to our ooey, gooey s» mores.

Many of them understand, intellectually, the rationale behind using low - cost, staid investments for their core.

The move is surprising for 73 - year - old Slim, who built his company America Movil in a more staid sector, namely the highly regulated telecommunications and TV business in Latin America.

He hit the ball with authority and for distance and ushered in an aggressive, hitch - up - your - trousers, go - for - broke, in - your - face power game rarely seen in the often stoic and staid sport.

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.

For a player in the seemingly staid insurance sector, QBE has had a rollercoaster year.

well I am aren't I. I am still breathing oxygen because Jesus has staid my hand and held my hand even there even then and I'm happy to report it's been almost a year without my hand reaching for that comforting blankey of «then I will just kill myself!»

There is nothing strange or wonderful or even bothersome in the staid mathematics of Whitehead's work for lay people.

I let the machine run for at least 15 - 20 minutes (And scraped down the sides now and then) but it just staid really thick and sticky.

This was so easy to make however after following the recipe to the letter and baking for an additional 20 minutes the batter around the cherries staid unbaked... why did this happen

Reporters from both coasts convened at Enz's office, and Douglas chatted for three hours before leaving for a photo session and an appearance, with a standing ovation, at the normally staid Columbus Touchdown Club.

A three - year starter, he has 403 career tackles and needs 79 more to break the Division I - A mark for defensive backs, set by Tulane's Mike Staid from 1991 to» 94.

ode to the Potters for their valiant attempt at shaking off their staid reputation!

An upcoming campaign fund - raiser for Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises to be a colorful departure from the staid hotel ballroom affairs typically used to court wealthy donors: In June, he'll host a performance of the Broadway show «Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical.»

A «semi-pledge» amounts to no pledge, and because he is reluctant to wholly delight or dismay his backbenchers, Cameron is simply perpetuating the same old staid EU membership arguments, which are, ironically, distracting Britain from also «fighting the fire» in the eurozone — a crucial fight if he is to uphold his incessant enthusiasm for eventually delivering UK a deal with the EU in the «national interest.»

«Diane Abbott's announcement that she will stand for Leader of the Labour Party has set off a fire cracker at the heart of a hitherto staid affair.

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.

Where they provide the punk and grunge punch, we turn to the likes of Stella McCartney and Ralph Lauren for an aristocratic and staid touch to the classic tartan.

Taking a page from the cool island moms in Victoria, I suspected that the best way for moms to wear rain boots is to copy the cool English (and therefore rather staid) version of the rain boot: the wellie.

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.

When you go to work in an office, the conclusion that people arrive at (and not wrongly) is that dressing for work is a bit staid and boring.

I'm careful with my partner, I also like dealing with respect for women in general, q'm naughty when I have to be, but I behave when staid ocacion requires it, I'm considered by those who know me, like a charming.

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.

Cougar dating in comparison to naughty Dating is quite staid, where generally a rich woman or man who is older than you will take you under their wing and lavish you with presents and cash in in return for sexual favours or companionship.

Actually a pretty staid affair, showing much less nudity than most R - rated films and coming down firmly, for the most part, in the pro-monogamy camp.

The politician thus discovers a new mode of communication, which he appropriates for a luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire (scandalizing his staid wife).

It's too thoughtful for that — too staid and too static.

de Ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is, overall, far too staid for its subject matter.

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

Far from staid, the picture illustrates nothing but Brownian motion — shaking shit up real good and filming the results for two long hours to a parade of ironic pop songs and barely - heard snatches of dialogue written by someone I'd like to see do better than this, Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly.

Never at risk of becoming staid, indie distributor of the moment A24 returns to the weirdo Swiss Army Man well for this pizza - delivery slasher movie, starring hip - hop artist and Chicago hometown hero Chance The Rapper.

Its straightforward confidence and room for detail makes for a satisfying experience above its staid exterior and movements.

The original When Worlds Collide was somewhat staid — a polite disaster film for a more polite era (despite the Earth about to die screaming there are hardly any social unrest!)

Stuck in limbo until they do a good deed, they decide to bring a little joy to the staid life of their very proper banker, Cosmo Topper, and manage to have a bit of posthumous fun for themselves.

In Brett Haley's gentle but potent comedy, veteran actress Blythe Danner plays a seventy - ish retired schoolteacher, long widowed, whose staid life takes a sharp left when two men appear on the scene almost simultaneously: Pool cleaner Martin Starr is the kind of platonic friend you meet only once in a lifetime; silver fox Sam Elliott is the love interest you never could have planned for.

Teacher Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject, but her routine is forever altered when a former star pupil and his unsupportive father reenter her life.

It makes for a story that is a lot more challenging to bring to life than its staid setting in Victorian Canada might appear.

At once shaken and emboldened by their challenging interview sessions, Leonard's staid, respectful tolerance for Heather slowly melts into consideration.

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.

Kudos to first - time screenwriter Bert V. Royal for taking a staid genre and making it wholly fresh.

While in no way reinventing the documentary wheel, Pavich's debut, even with a relatively staid talking head format, proves giddily inspirational for a story about a failure.

Note that even staid Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) attempts a lively pocket square and matching tie (likely chosen by his wife), while Don Draper opts for a sober grey check.

«What director Brian Percival and screenwriter Michael Petroni serve up is just another tasteful, staid Hollywoodization of terribleness, in which a catastrophic time acts as a convenient backdrop for a wishful narrative rather than the springboard for an honest one,» Abele wrote.