Sentences with phrase «staid when»

The Hyundai Creta may share underpinnings with the stylish Kia Soul, but the design team from Hyundai went decidedly staid when penning the Creta's lines.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

When Karen Hinton threw a party last year as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's newly appointed press secretary, it wasn't the staid reception some expected.

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

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.

I now work in a less conservative (small c) office environment so can wear pretty much what I want when I have no meetings, but still need to dress more staid - ly when I am out and about, so need to plan how I can subvert the boring - suit - dress - code and remain professional.

I'm careful with my partner, I also like dealing with respect for women in general, q'm naughty when I have to be, but I behave when staid ocacion requires it, I'm considered by those who know me, like a charming.

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.

Keith Urban and Kelly Clarkson provided an impromptu harmonization of the staid «And the award goes to...» line before announcing the Best Song winner, while Franco invited The Room mastermind Tommy Wiseau on stage while accepting his Best Actor trophy — though the director / star notably nudged the infamous auteur away when he tried to take the microphone.

The original When Worlds Collide was somewhat staid — a polite disaster film for a more polite era (despite the Earth about to die screaming there are hardly any social unrest!)

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.

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.

Young couple James Stewart and Jean Arthur invite chaos when his staid, wealthy family meets her wacky, irreverent one.

I feel that Operation Husky is going to be fairly divisive amongst players, with some possibly not appreciating the shift in focus during its last third, but I personally welcome the injection of new gameplay elements into what could be argued to be a more staid multiplayer experience when compared to the variety of its contemporaries.

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.

But the staid event quickly turned dramatic when a busload of angry residents followed Anderson from Newark in a display of the slugfest politics that have infused debate over public education across the country.

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.

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.

One of the greatest automotive marketing innovations of the mid-1990s occurred when Volvo jacked up one of its safe but staid wagons with an all - wheel - drive system and some extra...

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.

The overall effect is a greater sense of power and luxury when compared with the staid and sedate Camry Hybrid.

The Sonata was a game - changing vehicle for the Hyundai brand when it arrived as a 2011 model, with a distinctive design that shook up the otherwise staid mid-sized sedan segment.

But when you tick the right boxes, the ordinarily staid Tahoe turns into a mighty machine with Chevy's best 6.2 - liter V8 tuned for 420 horsepower, 460 pound - feet of torque, a 10 - speed transmission, magnetic ride control suspension, Brembo brakes, and a Borla exhaust.

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....

Cultures collide when teen drag queen Billy moves from the Northeast to a staid Florida community, where he is determined to disrupt the status quo.

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.

A relatively staid approach, when combined with the non-expandable memory and fairly high # 380 price, ensures it can't topple the greats, and won't sway many iPad 2 owners - to - be.

I do recall the institution I worked for was rather staid — lawks, they still had bloody tea ladies when I left!

Some of his work from the 1950s has the staid, if relaxed feel of much abstract art one used to see on Madison Avenue in the 1970s, back when it meant an elegant refusal to accept Minimalism.

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.

In the mid-70s, when Weisman couldn't cajole the staid board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) into raising its sights beyond William Randolph Hearst's medieval furniture and Walt Disney's American Impressionists, she organized a cabal of powerful collectors — including Eli Broad, Douglas Cramer, Lenore Greenberg, and Beatrice Gersh — and founded MOCA.

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.

So, imagine the surprise when we heard that Avvo was being acquired by a company that also owns of all things, Martindale Hubbell, the staid, traditional legal resource for information about firms, mainly large ones.

Imagine the surprise when we heard that Avvo was being acquired by a company that also owns of all things, Martindale Hubbell, the staid, traditional legal resource for information about firms, mainly large ones