To hip leftists of the sixties, unions looked stodgily bureaucratic.
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The Moderates might have joined a stodgily broad government of the centre right and left.
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The second, less obvious, risk is that China will revert to a stodgily inefficient banking system.
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Still, Nolfi keeps swinging in that direction, stodgily dramatizing Bernard's efforts as Eunice smiles and delivers wifely pep talks.
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She couldn't stand the idea that the people she knew back home were still cooking so sadly and so stodgily.
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Debates persist about the appropriate ways to depict World War II onscreen, but "stodgily familiar," which describes "Waiting for Anya," is probably not the most historically sensitive mode.
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Some of his movie parts were in Hollywood trifles; in one, "King Ralph" (21960), he was the stodgily irate English opposition to the ascension to the English throne of an American yokel (John Goodman).
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Birdman – Tha Carter , 2004 You won't find many people as quick to throw the stodgily traditional idea that rap has to stick to a certain type of dense lyricism under the bus as I am—I'm on record as being super pro-Lil Yachty, after all.
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Even Shah began stodgily, taking 34 deliveries to get off the mark, and doing so courtesy of a misfield.
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"The peak of passion", The Sunday Times, 27 March 2007 Other comments have included "compelling but dramatically flawed",Jennings, Luke. "That's one lean, mean Onegin",The Observer, 27 January 2013 "magnificent... a neck-pricking five-star triumph,Brown, Ismene. "Rojo leads a five-star triumph", The Daily Telegraph, 24 November 2001 "stodgily operatic"Anderson, Zoe. "Lukewarm love in a cold climate", The Independent, 5 October 2010 and "a sad, beautiful ballet, a true romance with four finely drawn leading characters and a grown-up poignance rarely found.
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Major General Sir Miles Fish, C.B.O. of the Brigade of Guards, once described by Lord Emsworth as the biggest fool in that regiment, is the late husband of Lady Julia Fish and father of Ronnie. Although by the time he married he was, even in Lady Julia's opinion, "stodgily respectable", in his youth he was known as "Fishy" Fish and had some wild moments, including, in the late summer of '97, riding a bicycle down Piccadilly wearing only sky-blue underclothing, and in the early morning of New Year's Day 1892, trying to shoot a coal-scuttle with some fire-tongs, having drunkenly mistaken it for a mad dog, facts revealed by Gally to keep Julia in line in Heavy Weather.
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