staidness

But that very dependability has given it an image of staidness.

Many said that in Italy, where men's fashions have long been experimental, staidness is news.

The Advent songs reflect the mood of staidness and reflection.

The sense of staidness no doubt in part stimulates the impulse to parody.

They have that phlegm or staidness, which it is a compliment to disturb.

Some of the old Toronto staidness remains.

Now French corporate elites may embrace Continental staidness with a renewed passion.

She has positioned Great Performers as the innovative alternative to Carnegie's staidness.

He achieved a staidness, and calmness, and philosophic tolerance.

There, for seven years, he has been resident artistic director, transforming it from the stigma of staidness to the possibilities of renewal.

In so many classic children's stories, it is the atmosphere of containment, the daily staidness of the backdrop that makes the silliness work.

"There was a certain quaintness about the place, a staidness, placidity and degree of predictability that you just wouldn't get in Jamaica."

One can feel the staidness lifted; the building swarms with frisky Lilliputians, who might easily erupt in giggles if told reading was for anything but fun.

Indeed, in its moderate numbers, its neat, well-trimmed aspect and a basic staidness, this orchestra seems a nice musical metaphor for the city that sponsors it.

But, after all, the evening had a certain staidness to it, both in the charts the band played and in the demeanor of the all-white, determinedly middle-aged audience.

He expressed that on the I Am... disc, "Beyoncé feels each line to the fullest extent, which almost rescues the set's staidness."

In "The Apostle," Sonny takes a humorous swipe at the staidness of many mainline Protestant churches - "We're not the frozen chosen!"

The thought that the center might now have to become an institution, with the stability and staidness that the term implies, does not sit well with Mr. Capa.

Miss Kerr, with Greer Garson and Jean Simmons, was the quintessential Englishwoman, with all the staidness that implied.

Sedate, sober men, that in the day time comported themselves in all seriousness and dignity, relaxed their staidness then and joined deliriously in the quadrilles or the waltz.

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.

When you tire of the staidness and bipartisanship of the mainstream BBSs, invade the free-fire zones of FreeRepublic.com and Lucianne.

Though he had been a man of pleasure and sometimes a courtier, his studious habits now grew on him, and he loved the compass, staidness and independence of the country gentleman's life.

Reykov was a large man, straight-shouldered and inclined to staidness, the type of Soviet man that appears in comedy-dramas when typecasting is necessary to the story, except that he didn't have the obligatory mustache.

She often laughed at her for her staidness, for her virtue, for her faithfulness to stodgy Tony - who was very sweet, for all that - but they rubbed along on it OK.