Sentences with phrase «staid living»

Teal and sunny yellow make a great colour combination, one that has the ability to inject a lively energy into an otherwise staid living room.

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.

Stuck in limbo until they do a good deed, they decide to bring a little joy to the staid life of their very proper banker, Cosmo Topper, and manage to have a bit of posthumous fun for themselves.

In Brett Haley's gentle but potent comedy, veteran actress Blythe Danner plays a seventy - ish retired schoolteacher, long widowed, whose staid life takes a sharp left when two men appear on the scene almost simultaneously: Pool cleaner Martin Starr is the kind of platonic friend you meet only once in a lifetime; silver fox Sam Elliott is the love interest you never could have planned for.

Lilian smokes and reads Russian literature, and she injects some much - needed passion into Frances» staid life.

Whether you want to experience risk directly or live it vicariously, Sukel's research - grounded book remains accessible for a general audience who's interested in the subject of living a less staid life.

Not exact matches

How did South Dakota transform a volatile mix of growth and ethnic diversity into the staid small town life that has been caricatured since Mark Twain and censured since Sherwood Anderson?

It's also, however, often convincingly soulful and consistently magnetic, the very type of larger - than - life big Hollywood turn that an otherwise staid underdog - makes - good saga like this downright demands.

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.

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.

But then, as the two love birds settle into married life, Albert's ex suddenly returns to reek havoc upon their staid existence

Teacher Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject, but her routine is forever altered when a former star pupil and his unsupportive father reenter her life.

It makes for a story that is a lot more challenging to bring to life than its staid setting in Victorian Canada might appear.

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.

Tom Hooper's film uses that sort of staid, tasteful artistic approach to depict the extraordinary life of Einar Wegener.

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.

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.

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.

While the V6 Sport isn't an all - out RS version of the Fusion, it does inject some life into a mostly staid segment.

Thoughts of staid Mercedes sedans took a back seat to most everything else during my late teens and 20s, but now that life includes kids, rush - hour traffic and high - tech - but - disposable family cars, the E-class Benz speaks to a certain element of my automotive psyche.

That, of course, has been the traditional thrust of the four - door coupe fad: sleek looks intended to breathe life into the staid sedan.

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.

However, the transformation of its harbor into a sleek and vibrant neighbourhood combined with an explosion of restaurant developments has sparked new life into what was once a very staid scene.

But even the life around those places is staid.

Speaking about the toys to life genre Fils - Aimé said it was important for both companies to keep innovating on the genre to stop the concept from becoming staid.

I have staid true to my work for all my life and I know that a right moment, and that is not an illusion, will come.I have sold mostly large works.

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.

Lately, the jet setting art writer has been pounding life into the staid blue chip art scene, from stripping his Madison Avenue space down to cement and drywall to planning an exhibit of Betty Tompkins» seldom - shown porn paintings at Art Basel Miami.

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.

The ability to see oneself in the monument would lead us to consider the piece as a living / breathing monument that is not static or staid, but as one that reflects today's America and our current political and social moment.

Over at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, in his first New York solo show, «The Skin I Live In» (January 8 — February 7), the British artist Jonathan Baldock also appeared to have been informed by Kogelnik in body - minded pieces he made by sewing limbs — felt arms and legs — and dots (pink, white, and blue) in decorous arrangements onto burlap, but the end result is too staid, too restrained.

For employees who live in Austin and don't like to feel they've sold out to a staid enterprisey corporation, this is a flag to rally around; a call for Dell to be the kind of radical, cool, interesting company they'd really like to work for.

Absalon's plan for each of these equally staid and practical structures, all with different designs and layouts, was to plant them in 6 cities around the world, where he would have then lived in them, as he resolved to do in 1992.

Thus, live - blogging may offer a nexus between conversations about the law both inside and outside the walls of the courtroom, functioning as an inclusive and interactive site for public debate not yet experienced in the often staid world of discourse about the courts.

Mid-range: Do - it - yourself Upgrading lower ticket items can add new life to a staid, functional room.