Sentences with phrase «so staid»

Their projected identities seemed so permanent, so staid and true,» she explains.

Some art fairs can be so staid.»

Street Fighter IV is so staid in comparison.

But our star may not always be so staid.

Not exact matches

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.

This was so easy to make however after following the recipe to the letter and baking for an additional 20 minutes the batter around the cherries staid unbaked... why did this happen

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

I now work in a less conservative (small c) office environment so can wear pretty much what I want when I have no meetings, but still need to dress more staid - ly when I am out and about, so need to plan how I can subvert the boring - suit - dress - code and remain professional.

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.

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.

So the onus must fall on the material adapted, Robert Harris's follow - up to his much - lauded Fatherland, which promised a Ken Follett romantic espionage page - burner while delivering a staid and occasionally incomprehensible period bodice - ripper crushed under the dual gorgons of the sophomore jinx and the Tom Clancy «guess I'm not very good at dialogue» bogey.

Still, the romance being explored here — which so rarely gets the Hollywood treatment, and which the writer / director Angela Robinson takes such care to flesh out — is enough to keep things from ever feeling too staid.

Greenfingers is so entrenched in provincialism that it encourages American audiences to chuckle knowingly at the staid peculiarities of the English — and so dedicated to soft - pedalling dangerous criminals that it reveals itself as preachy and pernicious.

Take for instance the stunning, all - new interior: gone is the glossy - yet - staid living - room atmosphere the marque has been cultivating for so many years.

As the Honda Civic Type R is based on the European - market Civic hatchback, its rakish bodywork may not look so familiar to those used to the staid U.S. - market Civic sedan.

However Mercedes - Benz» adept hand at detailing and surfacing means that when in the right colour and from the right angle, the CLA can look really special, far more - so than the comparatively staid Audi A3 Saloon.

The Mercedes - Benz C - Class is one of the more staid used entry - level luxury cars available, not so much for its styling, but for its ride.

Predominently, it's females that read more, so we wanted to get a light, colourful e-reader out there that wasn't staid and corporate - like.

Since character progression is so versatile, the synergy between different skills and builds lets you cooperate with allies in much more organic ways than the staid holy trinity of DPS / Tank / Healer.

But alas, they exist, and that being so, I decided I would try to write out one that shakes the staid and expected.

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.

I would even go so far as to say that because we are dedicated to the rule of law, we are bound to engage the public using whatever it takes, within reasonable limits, to ensure true respect and heart - felt desires protect what staid traditions have fostered.

For just as Las Vegas flaunts the traditional and the staid in the legal world, so does CLOC.

So, imagine the surprise when we heard that Avvo was being acquired by a company that also owns of all things, Martindale Hubbell, the staid, traditional legal resource for information about firms, mainly large ones.

Each of us may see our spouse in a negative light - for example the staid husband that irritates you so much, or the over-demanding wife that constantly interrupts your work with questions that could have waited.

So, the USA debacle has finally caught up with the staid, stable Canadian marketplace.