Sentences with phrase «staid image»

Totally redesigned for 2018, the Toyota Camry moves away from its solid but staid image and offers a sharp new exterior look and improved driving dynamics all while retaining its family friendly appeal.

Lexus RCF GT3 (Canadian debut)-- Lexus has been trying to boost its relatively staid image with products like the RC F coupe and LFA supercar, and this racecar is its latest attempt.

The new 3.9 L V6 offers increased power in lower trim levels, while the Super model, with its sportier tuning and Northstar V8 engine, does much to break away from the staid image of Buicks past.

The crowded compact SUV segment is full of fairly mundane options, but VW is hoping to wipe away that staid image with the new T - Roc.

As professional women increasingly want outfits they can wear to the yoga studio, as well as the office, the retailer is trying to play catch up and put its more staid image behind it.

And Lane Bryant seems to be trying to shed its staid image.

Not exact matches

But when his unpredictable public image threatens the staid reputation of the family foundation, Bach Worldwide, he is given an ultimatum: marry the beautiful but decidedly unlovable Susan Johnson (Jennifer Garner), an ambitious corporate exec who can keep him in line, or say goodbye to his billion - dollar inheritance and the only way of life he knows.

Besides its tense, edgy action, the film is notable for the way the son's image of his dad as a boring, staid materialist is progressively eroded as his past in the CIA gradually comes to light, as well as for the provocative way in which literal and metaphorical (the antagonistic entities who work against the protagonists) notions of family collide and contrast.

Understandably; for many, the word conjures the mental image of a group of staid intellectual types (or, more accurately, wanna - be intellectual types) pontificating on the meaning of life, art and death over sherry and cigarettes.

Sara VanDerBeek's photographs in her latest exhibition Ancient Objects, Still Lives counter any notion that the still life is a staid mode of image making.

This puts her in communication with artists like the late Sarah Charlesworth, who, in her «Modern History» series, removed all the text (save the header) from newspaper front pages, thereby exploring possibilities for creating a subjective relationship among and with images that are otherwise staid in their industrially produced silence.

It is not a banner at all; nor is it an image one would readily associate with a staid Boston institution like the Gardner.

A little bit of polka dots will work even in a fairly staid interior, as in image 14.