Sentences with phrase «once staid»

What was once a staid old handbook of contacts has, over the last number of years, been recast as something entirely different, something very impressive.

On a tidal wave of new e-reader technology and the increasing popularity of Kindles and iPads, the publishing industry — once a staid, tradition - bound sector — is now experiencing the kind of upheaval we're used to hearing about in music, film, and quantum physics.

The New York — based Thompson hotel group has transformed a once staid and average Sheraton into one of the capital's hippest hotels, packing the lobby with the requisite design books and a gallery's worth of original art.

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Moll, who feels almost repelled by a guy who is staid when the love of her own life is so adventurous, once tells him that what she remembers most about him is his smell.

An intellectually rigorous but stylistically staid peep at the 20 - something author of Capital and The Communist Manifesto, Raoul Peck's The Young Karl Marx is at once historically impeccable and a filmic disappointment.

It's hard to believe now that anybody outside of Warner Bros.» marketing department once thought this staid behemoth was the epitome of cool.

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.

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

By delivering smooth Internet radio, this software adds some much - needed flash to the once - staid BlackBerry platform.

However, the transformation of its harbor into a sleek and vibrant neighbourhood combined with an explosion of restaurant developments has sparked new life into what was once a very staid scene.

The Legal Geek Conference reinforced my view that the staid, pedigree - centric, hierarchical legal culture once the exclusive province of lawyers is now giving way to something different.