Sentences with phrase «staid world»

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.

The normally - staid World Climate Research Program released an official statement condemning CSIRO's decision.

Anderson's idea is novel in the staid world of art museums, but it echoes what companies such as Google and Facebook have long understood: Learning as much as you can about your customers» behavior can be more valuable than the price of admission.

The normally staid world of museum exhibitions has been upended over the past two years by a series of protests that have made global headlines.

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.

Critics of recent changes at the CBC dismiss Lang as another «money honey,» a good - looking woman hired to sex up the staid world of business news.

Not to belabor the point about the irrational exuberance that was the taper talk, but it's not often that one finds moments of true comedy in the staid world of high finance.

Poloz's appointment was as stunning as it gets in the staid world of monetary policy — which is to say it was a mild surprise.

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.

2008 global financial crisis, world HNW and MC's, flooded back into US, driving USD strength, flatlined global economy, decelrating trade, collapse of commodity values, reduction in opportunity horizon of Manufacturing and Productive EM, along with debt dynamics in China accelerating (Money Printing, Asset Bloat) and staid developed world horizons and Equity bloat in US.

The New Yorker of the fifties was more staid than its current incarnation, and Merton often claimed the chic ads reminded him of everything in the world he had fled.

The wealthy, staid and thoroughly professional world of retriever trials is getting some surprises out West

The American designer helped to transform from a staid luggage label into one of the most valuable fashion brands in the world, and the jewel in LVMH's crown.

The unabashed goofiness of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and the gonzo tone of Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok signal a radical departure from, say, the staid bleakness of Thor: The Dark World.

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

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!)

But before the staid numbers - cruncher realizes what he's getting into, it's too late to get out, as his increasingly unpredictable new friend drags him through a world of shoot - outs, double - crosses and espionage that could get them both killed in more ways than Calvin can count.

«The Florida Project» at times suggests a more staid offshoot of that film, as if it were about just one of the characters, who had gone off and had a child but was still hustling — and fighting — the world.

But before the staid numbers - cruncher realizes what he's getting into, it's too late to get out, as his increasingly unpredictable new friend drags him through a world of shoot - outs, double - crosses and espionage that could get them both killed in more ways than he can count.

After decades of staid, respectable cars that looked fine and drove well, Volvo shocked the world with the reinvented XC90.

Part of the problem is that the rules of the online book world bear little resemblance to the conventions of the staid, gentlemanly publishing industry of the past.

Turnbull brought the avant - garde creative scenes of Paris and New York to the staid British art world.

These two subsections are the real highlights of a fair which I otherwise find a little staid, like the London art world used to be, before it upped its game and entered the big league.

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.

Originally trained as a painter, Howardena Pindell spent the last fifty years challenging the staid traditions of the art world, becoming a key female art figure as a result.

For just as Las Vegas flaunts the traditional and the staid in the legal world, so does CLOC.

On the one hand, the desktop is reliable and staid, on the other, it and the Start screen are of such different worlds, that both can leave users wanting a little more cohesiveness.

Modern traditional, slightly sterile, uncomfortable, blocked from the outside world, personality staid and quiet, first thing I notice is a giant uncomfortable chair in the way... Between the lamps in the windows, and the frame on the bookcase, someone really likes to put impediments in the way.