Sentences with phrase «staid style»

Drawing on the classical tradition of bourgeois European painting, Yiadom - Boayke inverts this staid style by placing dark - skinned subjects on her canvases, though her loose, blurred brushstrokes negate any traces of racial distinction.

Be it reliability, comfort or its relaxed driving demeanour, it did it all in style — well, a rather staid style, perhaps, but as a family car, it set a high standard.

This Sport Sedan Concept breaks away from the staid styling of current Nissan sedans.

Not exact matches

«Others insisted my enthusiastic communication style didn't fit in with our staid culture.

But I'm glad to see you are taking style risks when faced with conservative, staid, or just plain casual environments.

December 30, 2016 • Trump - style tweets from the Office of Government Ethics urging divestitures made many suspect a hack of this typically staid agency.

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.

Pentecostals share the separatist stance of fundamentalists, but their style of worship — their emotional and experiential faith, with its emphasis on spiritual experiences such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy — contrasts with the more - staid expressions of fundamentalism.

Part of its naming strategy as a CLA, it offers buyers a sleek mini-CLS style rather than the more staid look of proper Mercedes - Benz saloons.

With VW's Mk4 Golf on the horizon Ford had made a big quality push, but when the Golf arrived it couldn't compete with the Ford's dynamics and for a company as staid as Ford had been in the preceding decade or two, the sharp «new edge» styling was bang up to date.

Perhaps the implied «youth» appeal of its zingy styling makes a difference, but it's more likely to be design details like those relatively expensive projector headlamps that mean the Toyota Aygo will cost you more to insure than some of its more staid - looking city car rivals.

While its style is a little staid compared to some in the segment, it gets the family - toting job done admirably, especially when a winter storm puts a damper on the driving conditions.

Based on VW's apparently versatile MQB platform (it underpins vehicles as varied as the Audi TT and the forthcoming Atlas mid-size crossover) the Arteon sports a 2,842 - mm (111.9 - inch) wheelbase and tight front and rear overhangs, giving it style the staid Passat family car can only dream of.

On the outside the proportions look pleasing and the styling is unmistakably Mercedes without being too staid.

This is the most radical styling Toyota has ever applied to its staid Corolla, and we think it looks good.

Styling is Reatta's long suit: From concealed headlamps to radically rounded trunk, it signals a new vibrancy in one of General Motors» traditionally staid divisions.

The Mercedes - Benz C - Class is one of the more staid used entry - level luxury cars available, not so much for its styling, but for its ride.

While it's refreshing to see Toyota take a bold styling step with the latest version of the Yaris hatch, it's equally as disappointing the company has retained much of the safe - but - staid overall character of the now five - door - only range.

The VW Beetle may lack some of the dynamic flair of the Golf with which it shares a platform, but the convertible offers the perfect style - orientated alternative to the staid Golf.

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Emerging from Hamburg's staid residential area is an urban - chic statement in style, where private spaces are sanctuaries and public areas bubble with fun and possibility.

Then when he moves on to his first attempts at the style we know as Mondrian, it comes as an enormous shock to see, because you realize that underneath all this almost staid respectability there has been something churning that made him keep moving.

They have been cast, like Burton and Taylor, in a variety of showy roles: as painters interested in reviving aspects of the art form in its most staid and classical modes; as Marxist or Marcuseian critics of commodity culture and its discontents; as leering champions of youth movements and counter-culture stylings; as strict, detached, ironic appropriationists; and, finally, as sincere and romantic poets attendant on the tragedy of age's advancing degenerations of the body and of the melancholy states of nostalgia associated primarily with the waning of youthful beauty.

Handler's faux naif style is in the tradition of 20th century artists such as Paul Klee, who reformed art's staid conventions of beauty by returning to supposed primal or elementary beginnings.

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.

In the legal sector, where relationships continue to be the mainstay of organic growth and new business, the traditional and staid approach of primarily one - to - one style relationship management has run its course.

This isn't some ornate casbah look or a return to staid Colonial style, however.