Sentences with phrase «rather staid»

Greyhounds and Newfoundlands, for example, are rather staid fellows, whereas a Fox Terrier can be a little bundle of energy.

I grew up in a rather staid English environment where it was necessary to put one's best foot forward at ALL times.

It feels a little like a work in progress, as the results are rather staid, but it's a sign that Sony wants to get some of the love that the HTC M9's video highlights attract.

Effective Coverage has been innovating and disrupting the traditionally rather staid insurance industry for a number of years, and that disruption makes things easier for you.

Like the carrier's economy class Skycouch, it was the sort of innovation that Fyfe brought to what was then a rather staid airline.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)-- Before this summer, few investors probably bothered to understand a rather staid and highly specialized part of modern financing: commercial paper.

I do recall the institution I worked for was rather staid — lawks, they still had bloody tea ladies when I left!

Effective Coverage has been innovating and disrupting the traditionally rather staid insurance industry for a number of years, and that disruption makes things easier for you.

Creators Usually manga creator interviews are rather staid, but I had a great time talking to manga - ka Masakazu Ishiguro and his editor at Young King Ours magazine, Masahiro Ohno, about their comics and the manga life in general.

This translates into their book marketing campaigns being rather staid and boring.

Other information, such as audio and navigation functions, now benefit from a high - resolution 7 - inch color display that replaces the rather staid setup of past models.

Be it reliability, comfort or its relaxed driving demeanour, it did it all in style — well, a rather staid style, perhaps, but as a family car, it set a high standard.

That might sound like romantic nonsense but the One - 77 really does exude a specialness that is every bit a match for a Pagani Huayra, and it has a sense of theatre lacking in the rather staid and serious Veyron.

The Taurus was redesigned for 2013 with an eye toward giving it a «more muscular stance,» and the SHO adds some sport to the masculinity with a black mesh grille, black sideview mirror housings, a rear spoiler, HID headlamps, and larger wheels, all of which make for a vehicle that is more likely to catch a bystander's eye than the previous, rather staid - looking Taurus.

As such, it's rather staid and old - fashioned, despite its jumbled chronology and dreamlike flashbacks.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

This approach - look at me, honestly wrestling with doubt and modernity, unlike the rest of you unquestioning drones who just believe what The Man tells you - is hardly new, and the desire to be seen as a brave, innovative rebel rather than a staid, boring upholder of orthodoxy, is a strong one and has doubtless been the root of many a heresy.

But the look of it all is still rather impressive, a good mix of set design, color and shrewd camera placement that makes a relatively staid and static environment have quite a lot of life, all things considered.

«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.

Indeed, next to the slinky, catlike Infiniti, the Jaguar is rather bland and staid.

Part of its naming strategy as a CLA, it offers buyers a sleek mini-CLS style rather than the more staid look of proper Mercedes - Benz saloons.

Rather than the staid, turn - based battles of the «Final Fantasy» series, «Tales of Destiny» embraced something that looked like a side - scrolling action game and played like a fighting game.

He vigorously defended himself in a lecture, in which he argued that art had moved to attempt to discover the language of pure imagination, rather than the staid and, to his mind, dishonest scientific capturing of landscape.

According to Oroumchi the City could be a fluid space, rather than static and staid.

AS THE LAWRENCE WEINER RETROSPECTIVE at the Whitney Museum fades to white under multiple coats of Kilz and latex paint, and his various exuberant ephemera take up residence at LA MoCA before wending their way back to their rightful property owners; as Tate Modern and the ICA London emerge from momentary spells of whispered headlines, random sketching, streams of consciousness, and face slapping; as New York's New Museum concludes its vestigial assault on the Work of Art, not to mention the etiquette of proper spacing, and as visitors to the new building experience the worst case of buyer's remorse since the reopening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; as the Metropolitan Museum's Dutch paintings readjust to the staid organizing principles of artist's name, date, and genre rather than hanging according to who bought what from whom (on whose advice) and resold it to so - and - so, who then donated it to the Met; and as the scent of modesty - prosaic, charcoal filtered, crystalline - emanates from the 2008 Whitney Biennial, now is as good a time as any to talk about money.

Perhaps the next generation of lawyers will associate Martindale - Hubbell with a 1 -800-Mar-dale phone number rather than the staid, tan volumes of lawyer listings that we older lawyers are most familiar with.

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.

Wearing these is rather like putting on a pair of brightly colored socks with your regular staid business suit — a bit of colorful flair that's only occasionally noticed.

The design of the ZenFone range is at first rather traditional and staid, but look a little deeper and there is an awful lot to like.