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I was surprised to see him at the jazz club; I always thought of him as a rather staid old gentleman.

I always thought of him as a rather staid old gentleman.

Miss Taylor, if you had not married, you would have staid at home with me.

It no longer staid duplicated, but began to create its own knife language and art character.

Whether its rebranding as the Office of Civil Society by Mr Cameron heralds a departure from such staid ways remains to be seen.

He was the bard of the farmers and workers of New England and his quiet verse mirrored the staid New Hampshire countryside .

Part of the reason was the firm's image, at least in America, as a Midwestern, staid producer of pickup trucks.

Dan: Kind of a staid affair for early '90s, post punk math rock, don't you think?

General Motors hopes to put fizz into its staid Buick brand with high-performance "Super" versions of the LaCrosse and Lucerne saloons.

JERRY: Yeah, a decent hotel-room, would it be terribly inconvenient if she staid at my place.

Even the staid Associated Press Stylebook, the journalists' bible, is telling us to call them "former rebels. "

Favored by China's last emperor, Buick is perceived as sumptuous and stylish, a contrast with its staid image among many Americans.

Reporters had been conditioned over the years to expect a staid question-and- answer session .

If flying between Pipa Qu sleeves, hit the autumn, bringing more trouble and that little episodes, staid state of mind.

For a young Moroccan couple, getting married is no staid affair.

One Canada, English and Calvinist in origin, is said to be staid, smug, and work-obsessed.

Mrs. Lycett was thin and quiet and staid, wearing two little strips of lace on her hair to represent a cap.

His background in risky investment banking, a world away from Deutsche's staid domestic business, also makes him controversial.

The ink staid my shirt black. How can I get the ink stain out of my white shirt? .

Wendy: Not if the finished product is staid and boring. Our client won't be happy with that.

He has transformed the staid, insular, 200-year-old savings bank into one of the largest retail banks in central and eastern Europe.

Even the staid China Daily opined that the deal "obviously does not make sense. "

CHINA'S biggest producer of wind power, China Longyuan Power, is in essence a staid regulated utility.

No wonder the normally staid International Monetary Fund has called the German-led debate "unproductive" .

Today, Schmid epitomises the new generation of Swiss cheesemakers, bringing novelty to a formerly staid market.

so I stopt at a poor inn, where I staid all night, beginning now to wish that I had never left home.

Despite the tough odds, Infiniti hasn't given up completely on its staid QX56 and has optioned up the SUV for another year of sales.

I am youth, clever, staid, full of energy and sense of responsibility.

They fear the staid old body, which churns out economic analysis and recommendations, may drift into dangerous waters.

That's the way that Microsoft semi-officially marked its transition from whiz-bang growth issue to the more staid earner it has become.

The corporation has established staid cooperation with some big enterprise at home and abroad.

However, it is just as likely that they will carry on with their staid, conservative strategies.

That may not be how they drink tea in traditional China or staid English drawing-rooms.

I often use Urbandictionary to research slang uses of otherwise staid and respectable words.

Astronomers are gaining a new appreciation for celestial bodies that once seemed rather staid.

Rather, it was a staid state-owned firm until it was privatised in 1997.

They're staid, boring, and unwanted but people are used to them and, for email, they are quite capable.

The country already has an English language paper: the staid official broadsheet the China Daily.

Competition is forcing once-staid publications to spice up their content.

Earlier hopes that a cohort of reform-minded apparatchiks might replace an older, more staid generation have now been disappointed.

Say there are two shares, each trading at $80; one is a young technology company, the other a staid power generator.

Cricket, once a staid sport, has been transformed by the camera.

Eg. We think of the Puritans as staid people.

They focus on market niches, typically in staid-sounding areas such as mechanical engineering rather than sexy ones like software.

PROS More exciting than staid London, but less overwhelming than Beijing, this is the frontier of China's new capitalism.

We think of the Mary as staid people.

America is the staid old lady in this drama.

Staid men and good scholars at first expressed mirth.

And it's very kind of staid and formal.

'Flower arrangement' has a staid reputation, but the 33-year-old Azuma is working to change that.

If he had come at Christmas he could not have staid three days;

So state-capitalist governments, particularly the Chinese, have turned to overseas listings to force staid monopolies to become nimbler

Tell her the joyous time will not be staid

staid serious and dull by habit; unadventurous

A think-tank'sMexican boss steers his staid agency into turbulent waters