Sentences with phrase «staid english»

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

An abstracted figurative style, combining machine - age forms and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex, this movement emerged in London at a moment when the staid English art scene had been jolted by the advent of French Cubism and Italian Futurism.

It emerged in London among English and American artists as a response to French Cubism, Italian Futurism and the staid English art scene.

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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.

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.