How To Use Staid In A Sentence
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Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue.
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Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent.
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Last night's Lee vs. Kryzan debate was pretty staid, which is to say boring.
WNYMedia
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There's nothing staid about the all-white La Scalinatella in Capri, one of the "airiest" hotels around with terraces that open onto the Mediterranean.
Ten Must-Visit European Hotels
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Too staid for the formation of ripples, too swift for calm content, the river seemed to boil up from below in a kind of frolicsome rage.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
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There were still others where the notion frothed and foamed, turning up unexpected ideas, revealing depths of dissatisfaction, of desire, of unsuspected powers in woman that startled the staid old world.
The Business of Being a Woman
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Some might consider the town to be a bit staid.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the end, one has to say that the age-old and staid principles of banking are more relevant in the era of retail financing.
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I act like a teenager and he acts like a staid, pipe-and-slippers pensioner.
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There's a kind of staidness and a kind of fear, I suppose, of playfulness, of merriment, of the colloquial and the demotic.
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For one thing, his staid demeanour and the conservatism of his dress and habits might have led one to suppose that he was a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways and hostile to change.
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The ceremony also gave more staid characters a little bit of stardust.
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For others it had all the hallmarks of another night of stoic, staid education: the use of the televisual medium as a glorified college professor.
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At a time when most Christian music was staid and churchly, they started a Christian rock band that soon was being tapped for a national record deal.
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- Her "maid" is poor Kirkcaldy Helen, one of the notabilities, and also blessings here; who staid with us (thanks chiefly, almost wholly, to the admirable/management/) for nearly twelve years on a stretch.
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Though widely acknowledged as a dazzling strategist, his impolitic, in-your-face bravado clashed with the staid Air Force culture.
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So what is going on in the seemingly staid world of historians?
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The normally staid boardrooms of the country's big car makers have been rocked by allegations of bribery and sexual intrigue.
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In an attempt to change its staid image, the newspaper has created a new section aimed at younger readers.
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Perhaps we shouldn't be too harsh on the halfwits who came up with these tautological complaints (don't dull, staid and uninteresting mean the same thing?)
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As the Steelers and Jets met in the AFC Championship game Sunday night, they did it behind two men who shucked staid and stuffy forever ago — if they ever actually exhibited either trait.
Steelers' Tomlin Part of NFL's New Breed
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'Is it mine _unstaid mind_ or Valentine's praise.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
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To my shame a reputation bent or maimed defamed the image staid, and disrepute disgraced my case, plagued with infamy and ill repute, a name ablaze by imputation as a most unsavoury reputation won or lost or never claimed.
Reputation Never Claimed
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The previously staid faces of the man-height computer consoles were a frenzy of flickering lights and wildly oscillating needles.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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It was common for coy damsels and staid matrons to wend their way to Lizzie's cot about twilight, to have their fortunes spaed.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Perhaps Captain staid up at Mrs. Vawse's," she said, "and didn't follow us down.
The Wide, Wide World
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She bought a long lease on the apartment in quiet and respectable Hahnwald, a leafy and staid suburb of Cologne.
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'common discontents make these breaches in unstaid minds and men given to change.'
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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Do we become more tired, more staid, as we get older because our energy is scattered over a gazillion different presents in a gazillion different realities?
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Although, she thought, as she glanced at him, in truth she'd expected something other than this staid automobile.
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Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to W.ite Hall, and so with them to W.stminster, Sir W. Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together discoursing of the office business, and glad of the Controller's business being likely to be put into better order than formerly, and did discourse of many good things, but especially of having something done to bringing the Surveyor's matters into order also.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67
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Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to hear Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down to the Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S.
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A staid - looking gentleman was upset at the dress of some young people in the street.
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If we'd all staid in de heathen land, where all de black folks come from, we'd neber known noting 'bout heben, noting 'bouts de hebenly' deemer or de golden streets of de new Jerusalem.
The Planter's Northern Bride
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He was senior pastor of a staid old church full of money, manners, and momentum.
Christianity Today
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British cinema is often seen as a staid and starchy affair, as lacking in feeling as it was in aesthetic passion.
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Now, they're just staid old men and women in freshly pressed casual suits and middle management voices.
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'unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger.
The Life of John Milton
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Poussin's A Dance to the Music of Time, countless paintings by Fragonard, Rubens, Reynolds, not to mention acres of armor-is sometimes described as a staid museum.
Encounter Books
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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It has shaken off a reputation as a staid brand, loved by the green welly brigade, to become the maker of fashionable bags that young celebrities such as Chung and Radio 1 presenter Fearne Cotton are happy to tote.
Mulberry bags reports sales rise of 80%
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Every comic had a point of view and everyone avoided staid old routines based on set-piece jokes.
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Facing to the more and more competitive market, the Sendas will keep specialty, staidness , perfectly attitude; serving for the clients for ever.
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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Dear old staid, conservative, non-violent Britain. Soccer fans were its contribution to the global tradition of random violence.
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W.lliam and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.
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Our view of the blogosphere gradually narrows, becoming parochial and staid.
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These unstaid dimensions, argue unsettled dispositions.
The Gentlewomans Companion
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A somulent shantung shawl of sherbet snow scuttled staidly across the spacious stage onto which the shady stratosphere of heaven harked an assiduous ear.
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It is a slick piece of work, more like a product of Madison Avenue than staid Capitol Hill.
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Beginning in 1976 with the album Blue Moves, his rock influences became less pronounced, and a more churchlike English pop style emerged in ballads like “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” (1976), which typified the staid declamatory aura of his mature ballads.
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His words may be apprehended as if they disallowed only divorce for 'common discontents in unstaid minds,' having no cause but a 'desire for change;' and then we agree.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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It was, if anything, rather staid.
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But you aren't put in a 1 million draw with a staid old deposit account.
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They have added a refreshing touch to the rather staid and mature democratic republic that West Germany has thankfully become.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Ireland's Call - now that's what I call an anthem... followed by the inevitably more staid sounds of Botha's dibbly dobblies will be missed but Wilson, who is usually a keeper, is breaking through for Surrey so should provide good batting depth.
BBC News - Home
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Although a strict dress code still applies in many clubs, golf's rather staid reputation is gradually changing and the sport is suddenly back in fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within this staid British academic lurks a true-blue American philistine.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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It was his loud argyle socks that revealed the boyish sense of humour behind the staid visage.
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July 5, 2009 at 12:45 am iz bein ruf…. dat purty much wai i haz bein goon. fambli got splited up las novemba wif spoose movin to skedadle acause ub da eck-onomy. fishykitteh n I staid in Orygun sos she cud finish middl skool dat eneded wif a massive teacha fail…. gascat wuz in colomorado but gotted sic n two mani peplos preyed awn himz inosence.
Bugsy’s philosophy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He was one of the first to retreat from couture in the 1960s, when it had become a trope for all that was staid and passé.
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Some things about him might have bothered the staid news agency we both worked for.
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The company invested heavily in advertising to modernise its staid image.
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Despite regional variations Biedermeier style is therefore staid, sober, and particular, eschewing heroics and drama.
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Square-cut and staid to behold, it packs a potent punch quite at odds with its looks.
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In those days the staid, solitary Christmas tree on The Mound with its handful of lights was the highlight of my year.
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Sir ROGER told me further, that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilst he staid in town, to keep off infection, and that he got together a quantity of it upon the first news of the sickness being at _Dantzick_: When of a sudden, turning short to one of his servants who stood behind him, he bid him call a hackney-coach, and take care it was an elderly man that drove it.
The Coverley Papers
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Chrysler products were perceived as staid and a little boring.
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Many spellings were carried over unchanged from the 1804 original, even if they were archaic by 1851, such as "doat", "choak", "staid" (for
Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father
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Or that we be staid before our betters, or in company we like not, or if anything molest and offend us, erubescentia turns to rubor, blushing to a continuate redness.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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So home Sir W.lliam and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661
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Pre-Kronos, any chamber music recital was a staid affair where great music was all-important.
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Some things about him might have bothered the staid news agency we both worked for.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crucial point, however, is not that Thurman's decadents are truly corrupt; they simply appear to be so from the perspective of staid Victorian morality.
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Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm a bit sedate, perhaps staid in the eyes of others.
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As she breezes past me, with deportment so finely tuned she could carry a book on her head, I'm guided into a staid conference room to first meet Jonathan the director.
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When we heard of this, some of us goatherds, we went to search for him, and spent therein almost two days in the most solitary places of this mountain, and in the end found him lurking in the hollow part of a very tall and great corktree; who, as soon as he perceived us, came forth to meet us with great staidness.
The Third Book. IX. Of That Which Befel the Famous Don Quixote in Sierra Morena Which Was One of the Most Rare Adventures That in This or Any Other So Authentic a History Is Recounted
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The normally staid company has become a lot more adventurous of late.
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The staid and the unstaid - long live the unstaid.
Times, Sunday Times
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She arrived in a staid navy suit and stared at the gowns and sequins bedecking owners around her.
Spending the Kitty on Pooches
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British cinema is often seen as a staid and starchy affair, as lacking in feeling as it was in aesthetic passion.
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It was his loud argyle socks that revealed the boyish sense of humour behind the staid visage.
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These unstaid dimentions, argue unsetled dispositions.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex
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The image of a staid Cabinet Secretary could not be further removed from the sleazy activities of his former political adviser.
Times, Sunday Times
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The women—bare shouldered, their hair à la bacchante, with long curls at the back entwined with vine leaves and bunches of grapes—waltzed around the staid little queen.
THE DIAMOND
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But when they thought themselves happily settled, intelligence was sent to Mr. Bertie, that it had been contrived in England to seize them there; whereby they were obliged on a sudden to haste to a s town called Winheim, in the Palsgrave's dominions, where they staid till their necessaries began to fail; and then it providentially happened, that Sigismund II.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Over 50 years, we watch Andy grow from being a staid, simple, poppa's boy, to being a staid, simple senator.
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In an attempt to change its staid image, the newspaper has created a new section aimed at younger readers.
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Facing to the more and more competitive market, the Sendas will keep specialty, staidness , perfectly attitude; serving for the clients for ever.
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Its attempt to comment on everything from politics to time travel, child abuse and mental illness makes most American films of the past year seem staid and unadventurous by comparison.
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Remember, the stag do is still a deeply symbolic chance for the groom to let his hair down, so don't make it too staid.
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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This site will no doubt be jarring to the casual observer more familiar with staid academic websites.
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
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Better have lied straight out," more than one hard old man said to him, but Ted Hardy could not lie _straight out_, and so he staid out and waited around disconsolately for Daisy, whom fortune sometimes favored and sometimes deserted.
Bessie's Fortune A Novel
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Engineering is seen as rather staid,' he says.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bacchanals is this, that the women of the chorus, staid and temperate for the moment, following Dionysus in his alternations, are but the paler sisters of his more wild and gloomy votaries -- the true followers of the mystical Dionysus -- the real chorus of Zagreus; the idea that their [77] violent proceedings are the result of madness only, sent on them as a punishment for their original rejection of the god, being, as I said, when seen from the deeper motives of the myth, only a "sophism" of Euripides -- a piece of rationalism of which he avails himself for the purpose of softening down the tradition of which he has undertaken to be the poet.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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We'll just start calling you SSH for short - as in shh, the staid suburban housewife has a secret glamorous life as a bestselling author ...
Romantic Times
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Stuffed with tips on fashion, sex, beauty and health - the stock-in-trade of women's journals the world over - the new magazine bears a passing resemblance to its more staid sisters.
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The room is nicely glassed off, so kids can have fun, stay put, and not bother the staid old newspaper readers like me.
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That plan would affect homeowners too, of course, and so we're once again hearing the odd piece of indignant commentary from staid house-proud folks and lawn-care business operators.
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They have also established an entirely new paradigm in the staid world of cruising: that modernity and youth are not necessarily incompatible with opulence and class.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a whole category of ersatz adults who've mistaken the apparent staidness of the grownups (who they observe from the outside) for the qualifying characteristic of adulthood and tried to skip the scary merry-go-round.
Zornhau: The Middle Ages
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The masts add structural and sculptural bravura to the rather staid skyline, a gesture - as in some of Richard Rogers' works - of futuristic optimism.
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I was surprisedto see him at the jazz club; I always thought of him as a rather staid old gentleman.
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And it's also a way of injecting a bit of verve and va-va-voom into a long-time staid art scene.
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Now, by this reading I understand that which is staid, sedate, considerative, with respect unto the end aimed at; reading attended with a due consideration of the things read, inquiry into them, meditation on them, with a regard unto the design and scope of the place, with all other advantages for the due investigation of the truth.
Pneumatologia
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I envisioned a staid, quiet event in which people would come and go in silence.
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Nevertheless, her plain delivery stripped of vocal runs, trills and decorations can make her long baroque arias sound staid and matronly.
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But, if he take all discontents 'on this side adultery' to be common, that is to say, not difficult to endure, and to affect only 'unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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Lohmeyer said there was a small, collective "woohoo" through the school when news broke about Crist's announcement, but said any celebration will likely be pretty staid.
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Yet its staid middle-class ending fails to narrate hard work as the proprietary glue that binds owner to estate.
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It was his loud argyle socks that revealed the boyish sense of humour behind the staid visage.
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Where the 5 is a staid, solid car, with reliable if sporty handling, the Jag offers up the individuality of that British heritage.
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Both machines were less than adequate in all categories of performance but they did manage to change the rather staid thinking of the American military and to help aircraft factories tool up for the coming conflict.
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Grange priest Father Christy McHugh celebrated Mass at Staid Abbey for the first time in over 400 years.
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Any pulling power seemed to be confined to the engine, as far as I was concerned, and I found the overall look of the car rather staid; without the personality of, say, the Saab convertible.
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Woo, who had previously tackled kung fu as well as staid dramedies, set about changing that with the one-two punch of The Killer and then Hard Boiled.
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A short ensemble skate to "Moon River" featuring Ms. Hamill was greeted with hoots, foot-stomps and hollers, a rather rowdy response for a staid crowd that knows a good twizzle when it sees one.
Hamill Gala Showing Is Golden
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I was expecting a slightly staid, old-fashioned choir, with little of real interest.
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In mathematics he strove to preserve something of what seemed a more staid and sober tradition.
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This is the very case I am speaking of; the man should not have married so soon; he should have staid till he had, by pushing on his trade, and living close in his expense, increased his stock, and been what we call beforehand in the world; and had he done thus, he had not been undone by marrying.
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
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The funds are managed under what has come to be known as the Macquarie model, under which a company manages funds that hold typically staid assets such as toll roads or airports.
Macquarie Calms Worry Over Funds
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I was surprisedto see him at the jazz club; I always thought of him as a rather staid old gentleman.
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Here at her red buoy lies Sir Lucius 'smartly varnished pleasure boat, the _Tortoise_, reckoned "giddy" in spite of her name by staid, cautious island folk; but able, with her centre board and high peaked gunter lug to sail round and round any other boat in the bay.
Priscilla's Spies
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This fancy-sickness -- for it appears to be nothing else -- naturally renders him somewhat capricious and fantastical, "unstaid and skittish in his motions"; and, but for the exquisite poetry which it inspires him to utter, would rather excite our mirth than enlist our sympathy.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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It is a slick piece of work, more like a product of Madison Avenue than staid Capitol Hill.
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In an industry as old as banking, business models can vary wildly, from staid to much more speculative.
Times, Sunday Times
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While I didn't think it was a 'Jackie Robinson'-level achievement (after all Connie Chung was already an achor at CBS, admittedly with Dan Rather, who was thrilled), I think Katie could actually bring a fresh perspective to an otherwise staid genre.
Matthew Wise: Katie's Big Day: No News Is The News
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OGUNNAIKE: No one has seen anything like this especially in D.C. This town is usually known as staid, reserved.
CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2009
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Instead, the staid drama of the film once again fuels its thematics.
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Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
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Usually it was Al who enjoyed springing outrageous surprises on his more staid partner.
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As the film shows, new activist organizations sprang up in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall riot, replacing the more staid "homophile" groups of the '50s.
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Ireland's Call - now that's what I call an anthem... followed by the inevitably more staid sounds of Botha's dibbly dobblies will be missed but Wilson, who is usually a keeper, is breaking through for Surrey so should provide good batting depth.
BBC News - Home
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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We have to remember what Rudolf looked like back then on a staid British stage," says writer and photographer Keith Money: "The bare midriff and all that glitzy Soviet campery were to some the absolute height of bad taste.
The Sheila Variations
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No longer limited to staid colours and boxy designs, the new Beemers are as exciting to look at as they promise to be to ride.
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In an industry as old as banking, business models can vary wildly, from staid to much more speculative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next he saith that 'common discontents make these breaches in unstaid minds and men given to change.'
The Life of John Milton
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There's no denying how frustrating staid, riskless costume dramas can be, where substance is replaced with big budgets, fancy costumes and schmaltz.
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The acting can be overemphatic and the blocking a bit staid, but the pacing is just right.
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A Cloudy and rainy Day, staid at home; spent the day Writing, Reading and Chatting -- I think it observable that our Language is more and more sliding into modes of expression allusive and allegorical, approximating to the eastern stile -- Professional Men, Lawyers, Seamen, Soldiers
Journal of a Tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787
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The museum is trying to get rid of its staid image.
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A staid, quiet, moral and intelligent community have supplied the place of many of the early settlers "who left their country for their country's good;" and churches, school-houses and Lodges now are prominent where the "doggery" made wild work with "the peace and dignity of the State," and the respectability and decency of particular individuals.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
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Students value the close-knit atmosphere and find the city livelier than its staid image might suggest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The museum is trying to get rid of its staid image.
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It was a curious mixture of staid respectability with overtones of holiday fun.
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And then, how Constance would have smiled over Beatrice's ideals -- her "fluffy" evenings -- in a kind of regretful, wondering way; almost as she had smiled when she first called me "Dick," in asking what had become of our staid English reserve; as she watched the noisy crowd in Fleet Street, singing its silly doggerel about England's security and England's "dibs.
The Message
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Recent consultation showed that residents in the capital perceived York to be a staid and an unexciting destination.
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Yorkshire food is traditionally seen as staid and stodgy, but can be modern and exciting.
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He lacks the adventurousness of others known for similar roles, appearing stuffy, staid, and stoic by comparison.
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Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
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Before Brook, theatre was declamatory, overly theatrical and staid.
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The plot is staid, with a particularly dissatisfying conclusion.
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There was medicine here for every kind of dulness -- not the gross cure which earthly wine effects, but so nicely proportioned to each specific need that one could regulate one's debauch to a hairbreadth, rising through all the gamut of satisfaction, from the staid contentment coming of that flask there to the wild extravagances of the furthermost vase.
Gulliver of Mars
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The lambada is also from northeastern Brazil, and she capitulated to the current fad with two lambadas, but the rhythm is staid compared with most of her other material.
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He came to America and staid with me at my home in Lenox, on his way to join the Longfellows at Cambridge.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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But these days all cars are pretty safe, so you need something to liven up that staid, boring image it had for a while.
Times, Sunday Times
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I always thought of him as a rather staid old gentleman.
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The otherwise staid stock market publication wallowed in scurrilous drivel about Obama's communist father ( "Like Father, Like Son"), the candidate's ties to Jim Wallis, the "Bolshevist" publisher of the progressive Christian magazine Sojourners, and the fact that favorable editorials on Obama's "transformative candidacy" were emanating from such publications as the communist People's World Weekly.
Where Are the Slander Merchants Taking Us?
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The one staid foundation of her home, of her idea of her beloved father, seemed reeling and rocking.
North and South
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Glasgow might be the perceived cradle of cutting-edge art, but Edinburgh is no longer the staid sister it once was.
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Some TV shows are a little bit staid and need livening up a bit.
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The one staid foundation of her home, of her idea of her beloved father, seemed reeling and rocking.
North and South
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It possesses more fascination than the similar but staid red campion.
Country diary
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Its other inhabitants are old and staid and utterly law abiding with a conscience over helping with the housework.
Sand In My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
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Young merchants in staid-looking business suits leaned against the railings of the bridge, their eyes lingering first on one group of girls and then on another.
Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child
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Readings are normally rather staid, but these people are lively and interesting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yorkshire food is traditionally seen as staid and stodgy, but can be modern and exciting.
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The museum is trying to get rid of its staid image.
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New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
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Her bright red shirt and quiet authority make her stand out from her hired managers and the men in staid blue button-downs that came from CiCi's corporate office to help with the launch.
Recession, layoffs fuel many to start small businesses
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There's no denying how frustrating staid, riskless costume dramas can be, where substance is replaced with big budgets, fancy costumes and schmaltz.
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It was his loud argyle socks that revealed the boyish sense of humour behind the staid visage.
