Once again, the Grammy Awards have shown their stodginess by dodging the major trends and artists of the year in favor of the tried-and-true.
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But its very mature, very calm nature dovetails quite nicely with the characteristics of its mostly older buyers who figure that stodginess sometimes can be a good thing.
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Together, these films depict a school wilted by its stodginess; they reflect popular culture's evergreen notion that Harvard is a hothouse for prudes and Poindexters.
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The company's flat corporate structure aims to remove the barriers associated with traditional asset management firms, and qualities like stodginess and risk-aversion are discouraged.
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Having reviewed the mistakes of past seasons, they are seeking atonement in relaxed suits and easy dresses that manage wearability without stodginess, youthful modernity without teen-age trendiness.
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The BMA has put its European warhorses back on the walls in a way that strips them of their stodginess; they're sumptuous and alive . _ _ _=
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And hence the cartoon's sometimes stifling gravitas and cute-creature-free stodginess _ no singing donkeys, no wisecracking camels _ which will surely glaze the little ones.
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The winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Arcand's movie is richly humanistic, with all the warmth and formal stodginess that label implies.
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"We just cannot stay on this course, " he said in 1989, referring specifically to some bureaucratic stodginess he had perceived in Vermont but implicitly articulating a larger educational philosophy.
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Part autobiography, part soccer primer, part paean to the joys of team play, it is earnest to the point of stodginess, which just makes Hamm more admirable than she already was.
