The subtext was that even at the relatively staid and surprise-free Grammys, the conduct of pop stars is not to be trusted.

But the civility did not overwhelm their mission of scoring on the issues each side thought would play best with voters watching on the relatively staid PBS.

Yet at the same time the Clintons have been concerned with overshadowing a relatively staid Mr. Ferrer.

In contrast to the relatively staid Calling on the opposing wall, this scene is full of action, swirling around the composition of hands at the center.

The first, by opponents of the research, was relatively staid.

Mr. Golin's perennial outsider status also serves him well in the generally hermetic and relatively staid confines of Time Inc.

Unlike the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, a famously cool art enclave, Greenpoint is relatively staid.

Within the relatively staid "Revealing Bodies" environment, there's also plenty of hard science and a number of the kind of interactive exhibits that the Exploratorium is famous for.

The couture shows were relatively staid, with models coming out individually, doing a few turns carrying placards with the number of the style they showed, for buyers.

Relatively staid affairs, they are not so far removed from those of the Cleveland Orchestra, a famously disciplined aggregation with a fearsome superego named George Szell.