Sentences with phrase «staid old»

His conversion to abstraction (ca. 1950), strongly influenced by the American Constructivist theoretician Charles Biederman, put the cat among the pigeons in staid old England.

What was once a staid old handbook of contacts has, over the last number of years, been recast as something entirely different, something very impressive.

Side note: Though we're talking about the V6 - powered C400 specifically here, it's important to note the C300 has a decidedly different character versus its staid older brother.

Not exact matches

Whereas Apple's old logo connoted the free spirit of an upstart that was taking on staid tech giants, its current position as one of the most valuable corporations in the world calls for the sleek, futuristic logo it has now.

The staid, old vending machine concept is getting baked.

The move is surprising for 73 - year - old Slim, who built his company America Movil in a more staid sector, namely the highly regulated telecommunications and TV business in Latin America.

I love playing with old, staid quotes and classic literature titles, stories and legends, clichés and adages, and weaving them into unique or humorous settings.

I got tired of waking and sitting there dozing off to non stop nursing through the night and finally just brought my lil one to bed where she staid until our second one was about a month old and I had to have more room.

A «semi-pledge» amounts to no pledge, and because he is reluctant to wholly delight or dismay his backbenchers, Cameron is simply perpetuating the same old staid EU membership arguments, which are, ironically, distracting Britain from also «fighting the fire» in the eurozone — a crucial fight if he is to uphold his incessant enthusiasm for eventually delivering UK a deal with the EU in the «national interest.»

Nestled into a 160 - year - old heritage home, Lupo is full of charming features: an open fireplace and an enclosed front porch combine with fresh white walls and modern art to create warmth and intimacy that never feels staid.

Cougar dating in comparison to naughty Dating is quite staid, where generally a rich woman or man who is older than you will take you under their wing and lavish you with presents and cash in in return for sexual favours or companionship.

As such, it's rather staid and old - fashioned, despite its jumbled chronology and dreamlike flashbacks.

As the 17 - year - old protagonist in a staid Swiss town, Loane Balthasar is unnervingly transparent, giving herself over to her character.»

As the 17 - year - old protagonist in a staid Swiss town, Loane Balthasar is unnervingly transparent, giving herself over to her character — and, like Sarah, 20 times more present than anyone around her.

In comparison with slicker recent screen versions, Mr. Holmes initially comes off as laughably staid and old - fashioned, and something more suited to a Sunday evening TV slot than the big screen, but there is a depth and wisdom to be found behind the film's doddery façade for the patient viewer.

He enjoys solitude, but does not fly the society of man; he is a child with children, joyous with the young, staid with the old, patient with the foolish, happy with the wise.

The Beano is sort of the older brother of The Dandy, a bit older and more staid.

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.

She indulges the children's every whim, and by the time they are in high school Cynthia has become the «cool mom,» lording a misguided sense of righteousness over the older, more staid parents.

Long the preserve of the staid and genteel (old masters, modern masters and the like), the neighborhood has recently been seeing more adventurous fare.

Perhaps the next generation of lawyers will associate Martindale - Hubbell with a 1 -800-Mar-dale phone number rather than the staid, tan volumes of lawyer listings that we older lawyers are most familiar with.

The logo itself is staid and very old school.