Sentences with phrase «staid at»

What would be the legal ground of this operation in case that the Hongkongers staid at all time in international sea territory?

Yes, I could have staid at a private luxury lodge at ten times the cost, but I didn't have to!

I have staid at hotels for free that others paid over $ 1000 / night.

I've staid at that hotel a couple of years ago, amazing view, amazing pool, amazing restaurant.

Cadillac's infused enough extra gravity into the staid ATS sedan to make the 2015 ATS Coupe visually distinctive while staying on the classy course.

Not exact matches

You saw it in Apple's «1984» Super Bowl spot, in which a lone, colorful rebel dares to resist a monochromatic horde of IBM users, and in Virgin Airlines» cheeky campaigns, in which a fun and sexy upstart thumbs its nose at staid and respectable airline brands.

Critics of recent changes at the CBC dismiss Lang as another «money honey,» a good - looking woman hired to sex up the staid world of business news.

The single line on an otherwise staid official report from the Aviation Weather Center at the National Weather Service says it all:

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

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.

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.

I let the machine run for at least 15 - 20 minutes (And scraped down the sides now and then) but it just staid really thick and sticky.

Reporters from both coasts convened at Enz's office, and Douglas chatted for three hours before leaving for a photo session and an appearance, with a standing ovation, at the normally staid Columbus Touchdown Club.

Le Prof is very staid when it comes to contracts and the fact that Giroud signed a new extension just last year makes me think that he will not let him go at all, especially when you consider his excellent performances as a supersub in the last campaign, and if Alexis leaves then he could be fulfilling exactly the same role behind Lacazette this year.

ode to the Potters for their valiant attempt at shaking off their staid reputation!

If social democrats step back from their own national focus and look at the bigger picture, they will realize just how vulnerable and ideologically staid European social democracy as a political movement currently is.»

A staid character in New York City real estate, S. Jhoanna Robledo passed away on July 19 at the age of 46.

«Diane Abbott's announcement that she will stand for Leader of the Labour Party has set off a fire cracker at the heart of a hitherto staid affair.

An invitation extended to the famously staid Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to appear at an open mic session.

From Évariste Galois, the genius who laid the foundations for modern group theory before dying at 20 in a mysterious duel, to René Descartes, who wrote «I think, therefore I am» after a career as a mercenary, the personalities chronicled here expose a side of mathematics far removed from its usual staid reputation.

Citing McNutt's long record, including teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as chief executive of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California and, later, as director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Colwell said, «Marcia has the credentials that will alleviate the unease that will occur among some of the more staid and arch-conservative members.»

When you go to work in an office, the conclusion that people arrive at (and not wrongly) is that dressing for work is a bit staid and boring.

If the front of the Extended Hours Top ($ 118) seems a bit staid, try taking a peek at the back.

The politician thus discovers a new mode of communication, which he appropriates for a luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire (scandalizing his staid wife).

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.

Amiel makes an admirable stab at overcoming the staid, episodic conventions of the typical biopic, staging Darwin's mental and physical breakdown with startling moments of magical realism.

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.

However, with an idiosyncratic, art - house cinema virtuoso at the helm, it is reasonable to expect that Vinterberg's aberration in directing Far From the Madding Crowd could transgress and alter the conventions of the traditional period drama by bringing a distinctive avant - garde style to a staid and stubborn genre.

Never at risk of becoming staid, indie distributor of the moment A24 returns to the weirdo Swiss Army Man well for this pizza - delivery slasher movie, starring hip - hop artist and Chicago hometown hero Chance The Rapper.

As the fictional landscape designer Sabine de Barra, hired to create the Rockwork Grove amphitheater at Versailles, she stands in defiance of social and aesthetic convention even while the film itself never bursts its staid costume - drama seams.

At the core of the film is a story about the physical and emotional abuse disgraced figure skating champion Tonya Harding endured throughout her life from her mother and her husband, but the film also explores the very traditional, staid world of competitive figure skating, while also offering a scathing indictment on the behaviour of the media.

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

«The Florida Project» at times suggests a more staid offshoot of that film, as if it were about just one of the characters, who had gone off and had a child but was still hustling — and fighting — the world.

This is no staid period piece; shot like an action film, with handheld cameras and 360 - degree sets, it's visceral, bloody and moves at a breathtaking pace.

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.

Read the last part of that sentence back and let me know whether that sounds at all like Chariots of Fire or Driving Miss Daisy or Dances With Wolves or A Beautiful Mind or any of the staid, dull, forgettable movies that have reeled in Best Picture in the past four decades.

After breathing their own life last year into a genre that can feel staid story-wise at times with Spider - Man: Homecoming, longtime writers Jonathan Goldstein and John Frances Daley reunite to direct their first pure comedy since 2015's Vacation.

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.

Gradually, the pictures, mainly portraits, take on more and more touches of color; at the turning point of the story, when Masako leaves her parents» home for the city of Osaka, the bright red of her dress practically jumps off the page as staid passersby in brown and gray traditional clothing look at her in shock.

Ms. Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman who recently announced she would not run for mayor in 2017, was speaking at New York Law School, part of their CityLaw breakfast series, and gave what was mostly a typical Success Academy stump speech: save for an introduction that was more of a defense against recent lawsuits and media stories, and for a conclusion that saw parents of former Success students livening up the typically staid CityLaw audience to demand apologies or answers from Ms. Moskowitz.

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.

Specifically, the new G80 Sport, a trim and color package that's aimed at injecting a little life into the smooth, and staid, G80 (née Hyundai Genesis) sedan.

Toyota will update two of its most staid and storied nameplates at the Tokyo Motor Show while exploring new hybrid ideas with a sporty car and crossover concept.

But I think Ford has a shot at boosting sales of passenger versions by also pitching this as a cool vehicle that fits all kinds of lifestyles, and not just as a staid, commercial cargo van.

Shown for the first time at the Ypsilanti show - and - tell, the LeSabre Ultra is a sporty, higher - performing version of Buick's staid sub-luxury large car.

I bought my 2015 fiat 500 pop six months ago from Car Pros Fiat of Renton, that's when my troubles started... at the first rain I found out that my car has a leak, car did not have even 500 miles when I took it to get serviced, in staid of giving me a new car they repaired it, and this is only the beginning....

Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around, pay when you get there; he made his escape at the first exit he saw, for fiftyfive cents, and now he was on the old road buzzing the staid turnpike by turns over and under, teasing it crazy.

The book triumphs at giving each character a distinctive voice, varying by level of diction, thickness of Irish dialect, staid or gossipy tone, and each person's particular preoccupations.

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.

Thus, if you're open to the idea of investing in the stock market (like most people actually are) but are somehow still on the fence about it, maybe some of the following thoughts will help you take the dip into a few investments that should grow at a greater pace than your staid FDIC insured savings account, over the long term.