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But it has always been expensive, and a bit stodgy.

The nimble Obama startup is about to be absorbed into a stodgy, technologically backward behemoth: the federal government.

Gradually it acquired its own editorial voice, and with it a somewhat stodgy image.

Toyota's upscale Lexus brand is set for a design shake-up as it battles to revive stodgy sales and a slipping image among young car buyers.

Now the stodgy Japanese bureaucracy is considered one of the main impediments to an economic revival.

When you think about it, lots of British dishes are stodgy. Things like pies.

That's a big turnaround from just a decade ago, when stodgy and poorly run state enterprises dominated the economy.

PC makers might also be saddled with perceptions of being stodgy and less than cool.

What was once viewed as a stodgy legal asset is fast becoming a sought-after financial one.

Maggie: You see, I can't wear this. Chaperones are supposed to look stodgy and respectable.

But a depressing precedent has been set by incumbent telecoms firms, which, like most banks, are stodgy bureaucracies at heart.

In the book , the sentence and word are no longer that stodgy, I can tell the author's simple and special American English.

It's a relaxed motorway cru ises, but the price you pay for the comfort is less-than-sharp handling, and it feels stodgy in corners.

To her surprise, there wasn't a stodgy storage container in sight at the party.

He had a stodgy , dusty, commonplace look to him which was more a matter of mind than of body.

If you cannot resist a stodgy cake or chips, it may not be simply down to lack of willpower.

But rare-earth mining was a stodgy industry in those days, selling mostly to petroleum producers.

His camera style is stodgy, and his handling of a delicate subject lurid but not invigorating.

This kind of lactose, human body can be digested in the baby, absorb, but after be brought up stodgy .

I've been testing the new Torch with BlackBerry 6, and I view it as a big improvement over earlier, stodgy BlackBerry models.

I suppose that's true Feifei. Lots of foreign people would describe British food as stodgy.

Last time around campaigns introduced stodgy blogs, written by lowly campaign workers, touting their man's latest speech here or there.

But when temperature is exorbitant, meet already caky protein, make stodgy, also can have damage at seafood delicate.

I saw my cousin. The last time we met, he was stodgy[7] and fat. Now he's tall, muscular and handsome.

Sure, it may seem a little stodgy at times, but the basics never lose their cool.

Poland's stodgy banks came late to the wild foreign-currency lending that proved so disastrous in such countries as Latvia and Hungary.

The first is to let stodgy businesses die, so that innovation flourishes.

Who would want a stodgy creature with no rhythm representing their civic needs on the national scale?

Take cream square during should diet raw or cold food, fat, acrimony etc stodgy reach have stronger excitant food.

Brian's culinary delights soon dispel the myth that traditional English meat and three veg fare is stodgy and dull.

The trick to completing your Ajax overhaul is using this plug-in to transform stodgy forms into nifty Ajax widgets.

Short-sighted cost-cutting and the imposition of stodgy GM engineering resulted in Saabs that were no longer special.

It should benefit as investors move from stodgy cash holdings to higher-fee, riskier assets like stock funds.

After reading these stodgy philosophers, I find his pellucid style very enjoyable.

Not content simply to jettison its stodgy image on the racks, Burberry has also been digitally savvy.

It gives me many options using this web-based system. The old paper-and-pencil tests are stodgy.

When stodgy European firms decide they, too, can become agile, they sometimes come to grief.

Remember when manufacturing was old, stodgy and unexciting?

These were not the old stodgy ads listing goods for sale.

You shouldn't eat so much stodgy food at lunchtime.

In my hammock at night, I dreamed of Mr Kipling French Fancies and stodgy flapjacks.

Google's growth outlook looks stodgy by comparison.

Therefore, we then had some people to take a test repugnantly, said that the test was too stodgy , was too mechanical.

Liverpool's midfield looked slow and stodgy.

This stodgy three-storey building.

But it is stodgy. It is also inconsistent with globalisation.

MySpace still has a long way to go in overcoming its stodgy reputation in the Web world.

I mean I'm not talking about these stodgy wives, Pug.

She poked fun at Alec because he was shy and stodgy .

The gateman was a stodgy fellow of 60.

Not for me thanks. It's far too stodgy.

Income stocks have a reputation. They're boring. They're stodgy.

Even returns on normally stodgy investment-grade U. S. debt are up 35% from their October 2008 bottom.