Sentences with phrase «often staid»

Resumes are often staid: White paper, black font, and nothing too fancy.

Thus, live - blogging may offer a nexus between conversations about the law both inside and outside the walls of the courtroom, functioning as an inclusive and interactive site for public debate not yet experienced in the often staid world of discourse about the courts.

In one booth, EDS Galería was presented a body of architectural and spatial investigations by Vargas - Suarez Universal, blending colorful lines running throughout the exhibition space with nondescript metal intrusions that brought a certain vibrancy to the often staid structure of gallery booths.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

It's also, however, often convincingly soulful and consistently magnetic, the very type of larger - than - life big Hollywood turn that an otherwise staid underdog - makes - good saga like this downright demands.

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.

But there's a certain perplexing charm often associated with seeing stars bring their talents to bear in projects prior to their ability to more fully exercise significant (read: staid) personal choice, and that can certainly be said of Sally Field and The Flying Nun.

However, the adrenaline rush of the tornado sequences clash with the staid and often dull filler scenes, including a contrived comical breakfast stopover at Jo's aunt's (Lois Smith) house.

Too often, training is staid, boring, tedious and, simply put, awful!

An artist himself as well as a DJ, curator, writer, publisher, and former Turner Prize judge (in 2007), he has also for the past five years served as the creative advisor of the Independent art fair, using that platform as an opportunity to introduce a broad range of creativity into the traditionally staid, too - often straitjacketed art - fair format.

For example, Nick Cave's Soundsuits (1999 — ongoing)-- always texturally inviting but often uncomfortably staid in the gallery, and almost like taxidermy — are reconnected here with the exuberant movement and sweaty Chicago - house dance floors that inspired them.