staid

Now they were almost like a staid old married couple.

But not too staid, if those marks were anything to go by.

Part of the way I play him is that he has this experience behind the staid image.

But in a more staid investment environment, would so many people believe him?

It is solid and serious, but sometimes a bit staid.

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

He was far more staid than most of his countrymen.

"I see I'm missing a great deal, being a staid married man with four children."

"A lot of us came from the East, and it was pretty staid," he observed recently.

Was she fleeing her staid home for the lights of the city?

But the restrictions do not by any means lead to a staid atmosphere.

It made the staid old tune seem new and fresh to her again.

You've taken on Boston's staid legal community and done more for family law than any other lawyer in years.

All the time I've known him, my father has cut a fairly staid, conventional figure.

But that's good for a man who wants a staid home life."

"Here I thought that a judge's life was pretty staid.

It was the face of a staid, methodical business man.

Ms. Phillips said things would be more staid this time.

But even if it seems a little more staid than usual, there is plenty to look at.

He has wasted no time in making his presence felt at the staid old agency.

Friends there remember him as a staid young man.

"The convention is not a private and staid affair," he said.

These range from the staid and formal to the humorous.

And he, the staid Topper, had played a part in them.

It would not do to make your worlds too staid."