Sentences with phrase «fuddy duddues»

This fuddy - duddy space isn't part of a historic museum — it's home to a cool mom and her two kids.

My fuddy - duddy bookshelf now looks fresher and modern.

The LG G Watch R and first - generation LG Watch Urbane may seem like aging fuddy - duddy smartwatches to some, but they're still holding on.

And here's why there's hope you can get the fuddy - duddies in your firm to see that blogging for their «traditional law firm» may be a good fit.

I've long griped about the ugly way our courts publish their decisions, which look like something from the (by now) fuddy - duddy fifties, replete with double - spacing, two spaces after periods, 1 inch margins, etc..

Besides, ignoring social media makes you look like a fuddy - duddy.

On the other hand, something about this is just a leetle much, or are we just turning into fuddy - duddies in our dotage?

Forget old fuddy duddy scientific methodology, Scenario Science is much more exciting!

I always figure I'm going to get called an anal fuddy - duddy for bringing it up — which I am, but it still hurts.

Founded in 1910 to counter the Tate Gallery's fuddy - duddy choice of contemporary art, the CAS donates new art to public galleries and museums, financing its purchases by art trading.

I'm going to run the risk of sounding like an awfully old - fashioned fuddy - duddy, but I'm going to stick my neck out and say, Hugh, your aims are going to be difficult to achieve, as there simply are no exceptional people in advertising.

I hate to be a fuddy - duddy, maybe it's best to wait for the Competent Person's Report (CPR).

By the time they were born, I was already a senior administrator and a full - blown fuddy duddy.

My mom is fine, and the fuddy - duddy did all right also, but the cousins swore off stock investing.

In the long run you will do better following advice like this — after all, they dissed Buffett in 1999, and my Mom told me I was a fuddy - duddy.

You're such a fuddy - duddy.

It's not sexy, and can leave you feeling like an old fuddy - duddy at times, but it is a prudent strategy.

Perhaps e-readers just become a device for old fuddy duddies, but they won't disappear overnight and have a solid use case.

Purchasing an I.C.E either petrol or diesel without a hybrid drive train is like purchasing a 386 computer — old fuddy - duddy stuff for the old economy, get with the program the future electric vehicles are fun and fantastic or the Insight is a brilliant appetizer

Outside there are bi-function halogen projector headlamps with LEDs, fog lamps, and optional 19 ″ hyper black aluminum wheels that set the expectation that this is no fuddy - duddy sedan.

Gone is the fuddy - duddy finish in favour of a more upscale look and feel that's dominated by the iPad - like screen and Chevy's MyLink infotainment system — it looks like it was designed to sit there rather than being an afterthought.

The cheeky XC40 makes the Audi Q3, BMW X1 and Mercedes GLA look like old fuddy - duddies, and the driving experience gives the Mini Countryman a run for its money.

This means that young workers will have considerably more human capital than the old fuddy - duddies who were educated during a time of much lower human capital.

The humour is a bit fuddy - duddy.

«These are the perfect films to engage the students (we do outreach with)-- obviously because it's something they will like, but those filmmakers are not some fuddy - duddies, but really young, vibrant voices that connect with a younger audience,» Kasper said.

When the first Kingsman came out in 2015, it at least had the cheeky novelty of watching a career fuddy - duddy like Colin Firth cutting loose and unleashing his inner badass.

During an after - party for a concert given by a Depeche Mode knockoff, Doris's fuddy - duddy language and critically uncool neon uniform is condescendingly rebranded as a show of ironic hipness by the brain - clouded millennials in the room.

Gregor Fisher stars as the postmaster who masterminds the boozy heist, with Eddie Izzard the law - abiding fuddy - duddy wanting to stop the hedonism.

With Maps to the Stars, Canadian experimentalist maestro David Cronenberg extends his middle digit to the Hollywood lifestyle and its fuddy - duddy inhabitants without much nuance, or style for that matter.

Matt Damon seems an ill - match for his role as the mentally - unstable title character, a tragic - comic figure deserving of more complicated treatment than as an addlepated fuddy - duddy.

History was on the side of those who thought Academy voters would prove too fuddy - duddy to appreciate Immortan Joe and his War Boys.

Meanwhile, Quella and Potter, neither of whom have seen Donnelly's The Toolbox Murders in its entirety, are a couple of blatantly opportunistic fuddy - duddies unsuccessfully steered towards intelligent discourse by Scottish film critic Waddell.

Despite the opinion of one old fuddy - duddy writer here at The Film Yap, it is a classic.

... Not to sound like the world's biggest fuddy - duddy, but the first episode of No Tomorrow plays too easily as millennial claptrap.

As April, she was the voice reason against Leo's stodgy, as Annie Hall would say, fuddy - duddy stick in the mud Frank character.

Cassidy is a decently capable dancer, but the routines performed by the troupe at the resort seem utterly tame, so mild that Stevenson's fuddy - duddy objections seem only puzzling.

For you fuddy duddies out there who think cartoons are for kids, I don't know when the last time you saw a cartoon was, but movie cartoons have never been for kids.

This is actually quite flattering when you think about it, and you at least have the benefit of knowing that she doesn't regard you as some hopelessly antiquated fuddy - duddy with whom she is embarrassed to be seen in public.

You're not a fuddy - duddy for wanting a long - term relationship, and let no one tell you otherwise.

Whatever it takes, be game to try something new and stop being the fuddy duddy.

Oh and then my dad, I mean Ron, said «You're going to pay $ 78 for ripped jeans?!?!» I definitely had to point out to him that he sounded like an old fuddy duddy when he said that.

Taking fuddy duddy, traditionally American things and turning them into high fashion seems to be a budding trend.

Take a taste and you'll soon agree there's nothing fuddy - duddy about this to - die - for flavor combination!

Actually (and this is how fuddy duddy I am) my favorite way to check out my stalkees, style wise, is to access the IG pages on my laptop, so that I can quickly scroll through a bunch of photos.

It is a party pooper, a stick - in - the - mud, an old fuddy - duddy: unreformed and, seemingly, unreformable.

I don't think it's just a fuddy duddy kind of «wasn't it all wonderful in the old days?»

It wasn't long before people were telling the opinion pollsters that the chirpy, pipe - smoking Harold Wilson was making the prime minister Harold Macmillan look like an Edwardian fuddy - duddy.

One reference to Twitter made him look like a fuddy - duddy old granddad.

It's that same fuddy - duddy thinking that lost him the election, because people like him refuse to give up on old traditions.

Shove your old fuddy duddy advice up your butt!»