"There was a certain quaintness about the place, a staidness, placidity and degree of predictability that you just wouldn't get in Jamaica ."
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The investment-banking house has rejected staidness in favor of attracting new advertisers to the building in a celebration of the legacy of Times Square's glitz, glamour and gaudiness.
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Coach Herbert Prohaska, normally a picture of staidness, also showed some strains, chewing out an interviewer from state-run Austrian television for asking what he considered a silly question.
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Sonny takes a humorous swipe at the staidness of many mainline Protestant churches _ " We're not the frozen chosen ! " he exclaims _ and the film vividly illustrates the appeal of emotionally expressive religion.
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Mouly had reservations about the magazine's reputation for staidness and Brown's politics, but was taken with Brown on a personal level, whom she described as " charismatic, quick-witted, full of energy ".
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In addition, in " The Fellowship of the Ring ", both Gandalf and Frodo express frustration with hobbits'staidness and dislike of anything foreign or out of the ordinary, and even in " Concerning Hobbits " the narrator shows a certain degree of impatience with hobbits'general narrow-mindedness.
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Who knows what E . B . White, the author of " Stuart Little, " might think, but he probably would appreciate the " scrupulous balance between'40s staidness and whiz-bang action that the director Rob Minkoff and his collaborators have brought to its two screen incarnations " ( Stephen Holden ).
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Although it's anybody's guess what E . B . White, the author of " Stuart Little, " would have made of Hollywood's franchising of his 1945 children's classic, I'm betting that he would have appreciated the scrupulous balance between'40s staidness and whiz-bang action that the director Rob Minkoff and his collaborators have brought to its two screen incarnations.
