There's a surgical staidness to The Crown that's completely absent from Victoria.
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The bride's family, the Barlows, are mostly lawyers, a profession used as shorthand for staidness.
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" Richard Smagur offered old-fashioned poise, verging on staidness, in tenor arias from "Carmen" and "Werther.
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Often casual and spare, these innovative restaurants have done away with prix fixe staidness without sacrificing an iota of artful technique.
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This stylistic staidness runs in satisfying counterpoint to the dramas unfolding in the outside world of the "English" — the Amish term for non-Amish people.
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But as you point out, Todd, this episode has a polite staidness to its movements that keeps it from feeling as closed-in and smothering as it might have otherwise.
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His reserve matches the movie's overall staidness, but also angles his experience as one of opting out of the frictionless life he was leading, rather than, like so many of the other characters, working desperately toward an idea of fitting into a community hostile to him.
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Instead, the exhibition seems to be taking its cue from classic LeWitt, with innumerable variations on the box and grid, especially in the opening rooms, whose staidness and regimentation might at first glance (if not a second or third) persuade you that you are stepping off the elevator into the wrong show.
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On the contrary: Supposing that Trump is battered by a legion of devils who prey upon his pride, who exacerbate his mood swings, who encourage rash decision-making and pointless fights – wouldn't that be a pretty good reason to look to the 25th Amendment (which clearly has a penumbra or an emanation relating to demonic infestation) and vest the presidency's powers in the boring evangelical staidness of Mike Pence instead?
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Retrieved on April 20, 2019. He expressed that on the I Am... disc, "Beyoncé feels each line to the fullest extent, which almost rescues the set's staidness." In his consumer guide for MSN Music, Robert Christgau named it the "dud of the month", indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought".Christgau, Robert.
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They were sung at prescribed times of the year while performing the appropriate rituals. There are songs of Shrovetide and Lent, Easter swinging songs, and Easter songs called lalavimai. The Advent songs reflect the mood of staidness and reflection. Christmas songs contain vocables such as kalėda, lėliu kalėda; oi kalėda kalėdzieka, while Advent songs contain vocables such as leliumoj, aleliuma, aleliuma rūta, aleliuma loda and others.
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They were sung at prescribed times of the year while performing the appropriate rituals. There are songs of Shrovetide and Lent, Easter swinging songs, and Easter songs called lalavimai. The Advent songs reflect the mood of staidness and reflection. Christmas songs contain vocables such as kalėda, lėliu kalėda; oi kalėda kalėdzieka, while Advent songs contain vocables such as leliumoj, aleliuma, aleliuma rūta, aleliuma loda and others.
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The most important winter festivals commenced when the farm chores had been completed—from November through the middle of January. In order to ensure a plentiful harvest for the next year, certain rituals, representing fortune and plenty, were performed. The most important winter festival is Christmas. The four-week period of Advent preceding Christmas is a time of staidness and reflection, and the rituals and songs of Advent and Christmas reflect that mood.
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During this period, Maria Christina ruled as regent until her child Alfonso, a son, was born on 17 May 1886; he was King (Alfonso XIII) from birth. Maria Christina continued as regent until Alfonso XIII attained his majority in 1902. She nurtured a persona of austerity and staidness, and became known among the populace as Doña Virtudes, María la Seca ("Mary the Curt One") and la institutriz ("the governess"). She displayed strong religious beliefs which gained her the endorsement of Pope Leo XIII, weakening the adherence to Carlist stances within the clergy.
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Justice Brett recalled that John Wilkes had said that the worse effect to put a man was to hang him. The men They believed in their "rights to protection for the combination of labour", and consequently on appeal wrote directly to Parliamentary Under- secretaryEquivalent today to second ranking Minister of State in the ministerial hierarchy. at the Home Office, Henry Alfred Austin Bruce. In the House of Commons the Attorney-General John Coleridge mocked Harcourt's staidness, but Coleridge concluded by agreeing that the law needed changing or else it would lead to contempt of court.
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Tina Brown became the editor of The New Yorker magazine in 1992, and was intent on changing it from the stolid, conservative image left it by William Shawn's long editorship. Her cover choices provoked controversy—in particular, one by Spiegelman for the 1993 Valentine's Day issue of a Hasidic man kissing an African-American woman. Writer Lawrence Weschler recommended Brown consider Mouly for the art editor position; Mouly and Brown met the following March. 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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