Sentences with phrase «in staid»

My review unit was a rather loud orange color (the Gear 2 also comes in staid black or a pretty ugly rose gold), which works at the gym, but not in the board room.

In the staid precincts of Yale University, she presented herself as a sexy urban black girl, confusing fellow students and faculty who mistook her for a lost resident of New Haven.

Anderson's idea is novel in the staid world of art museums, but it echoes what companies such as Google and Facebook have long understood: Learning as much as you can about your customers» behavior can be more valuable than the price of admission.

Some of these 1971 installations were in staid black or white, some in lurid color, but the Phantom forms were covered in phosphorescent salt.

His conversion to abstraction (ca. 1950), strongly influenced by the American Constructivist theoretician Charles Biederman, put the cat among the pigeons in staid old England.

On the other hand, we made tons of money on ordinary companies in staid industries such as banking and even textiles.

I bought my 2015 fiat 500 pop six months ago from Car Pros Fiat of Renton, that's when my troubles started... at the first rain I found out that my car has a leak, car did not have even 500 miles when I took it to get serviced, in staid of giving me a new car they repaired it, and this is only the beginning....

Strengths of this model include ride, base ESs value for money, rear - seat room., and Unique styling in a staid segment * Money - Back Guarantee is valid for 5 days or 250 miles, whichever comes first.

As the 17 - year - old protagonist in a staid Swiss town, Loane Balthasar is unnervingly transparent, giving herself over to her character — and, like Sarah, 20 times more present than anyone around her.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What we need are new wrinkles in staid environments — or brain hacks

Cagney is quick to add that his company is the king of these midgets, an innovative operator in a staid industry that is a making a go of things.

Not to belabor the point about the irrational exuberance that was the taper talk, but it's not often that one finds moments of true comedy in the staid world of high finance.

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.

A standout in real estate technology, Floored created a new product category in a staid industry.

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.

Medical marijuana producers in Canada are typically branded like pharmaceutical companies — clinical, staid and boring.

You saw it in Apple's «1984» Super Bowl spot, in which a lone, colorful rebel dares to resist a monochromatic horde of IBM users, and in Virgin Airlines» cheeky campaigns, in which a fun and sexy upstart thumbs its nose at staid and respectable airline brands.

«Others insisted my enthusiastic communication style didn't fit in with our staid culture.

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.

In response to the online market competition, Chia offered a staid response.

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

In addition to upending the automobile and space industries, the guy can turn a staid, traditional quarterly...

2008 global financial crisis, world HNW and MC's, flooded back into US, driving USD strength, flatlined global economy, decelrating trade, collapse of commodity values, reduction in opportunity horizon of Manufacturing and Productive EM, along with debt dynamics in China accelerating (Money Printing, Asset Bloat) and staid developed world horizons and Equity bloat in US.

Even the normally staid Alan Abelson of Barron's finally threw in the towel last week, abandoning his own caution that stocks have run too fast, too far, and suggesting that investors let their profits run «until they start to go the other way.

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.

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

The New Yorker of the fifties was more staid than its current incarnation, and Merton often claimed the chic ads reminded him of everything in the world he had fled.

Staid pretty late, and so over with her by water, and being in a great sweat with my towsing of her durst not go home by water, but took coach, and at home my brother and I fell upon Des Cartes, and I perceive he has studied him well, and I can not find but he has minded his book, and do love it.

We're in that deep, lingering last stretch of Winter, and I'm admittedly slipping into a staid routine with all of our meals.

The board are staid and lost in a time warp.

we've improved significantly in defence: chesney / per & flam with their stutters and shockers have been replaced with the more staid ospina / gabriel / coq.

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.

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.»

She is certainly no Ann Widdecombe, who in a recent interview with Saga magazine, said: «I am very staid.

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.»

A staid character in New York City real estate, S. Jhoanna Robledo passed away on July 19 at the age of 46.

The last Labour leadership contest was dull, dull, dull: dominated by seemingly endless staid hustings where contenders took it in turns to answer one worthy question after another from audiences made up of loyal party members.

In the next few years, your staid supermarket will sell an array of ordinary edibles with extraordinary claims.

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.

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.»

If your diet is feeling a little staid after winter, fear not: A new crop of spring cookbooks has burst into bloom, bringing plenty of inspiration to get you excited about getting back in the kitchen.

I've staid in some pretty nice hotels, but I don't think I've staid in the Omni.

It's hard to wear a suit and not look staid or snoozy, but somehow, (in Saint Laurent) manages.

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.