She embodies both the authority and the stodginess of the term.
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The results reflected the longtime stodginess of the Recording Academy, our critic writes.
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Adding lengthy discussion of cake stodginess and sponge quality only maximizes both of these things.
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The big positive for Spain is that the stodginess of qualifying seems to have been left behind.
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The Giants often get categorized as a "stable" team, but one man's stability is another man's stodginess.
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But the stodginess reveals how much soul-searching it must have taken to write this candid, reflective book.
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The choices, slipped between nearly two dozen performances, continued the longtime stodginess of the Recording Academy, which presents the awards.
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When telecoms firms and airline companies were heavily regulated in the 1970s, they were notorious for their stodginess and inefficiency.
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His clipped, fluid prose avoids academic stodginess with élan, and there is nothing insolent, narcissistic, lecherous, or self-protective about it.
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It takes a truly terrible proposal to elicit such eloquent unanimity from organizations that are usually cautious to the point of stodginess.
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"That kind of just ties your hands, and it creates a stodginess where you're guessing what somebody else would have done," Yedlin explained.
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It faintly mocks its own stodginess—it is a kind of pleasure, after all, to imagine your own death, provided you're young and healthy.
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For all their fiscally conservative stodginess, the people tasked with safeguarding your nest egg are forcing the financial world to pay attention to climate change.
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For Dick, as he is known to his staff, the tradition of clerks addressing their bosses as "judge" exemplifies the judiciary's stodginess and resistance to innovation.
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Whether you witnessed Moonlight overthrowing stodginess at the Oscars or just snoozed, Lil Uzi Vert did neither of these things and surprise released a quick tape.
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He is shown celebrating a home run against the Marlins in a new M.L.B. television ad, called "Let the Kids Play," that pushes back against the perceived stodginess of the game.
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One other employer is particularly ill-suited to compete: the federal government, with its centenary history alternating world-changing innovation and unbelievable stodginess, could emerge shriveled and unable to fulfill its mission.
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And Roy Hodgson, an old manager who once embodied the stodginess of the English ideas on soccer–reportedly tying ropes between players to teach them to move as lines–has become flexible and youth-oriented.
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Because of Robinson some Americans were lifted up from our stodginess and were able to appreciate a gifted athlete and a driven human being, excelling where no player of color had been allowed since the 19th Century.
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These are new, or newly altered, locations that exemplify the rising spirit of the time, just as Park Forest did for its time — but now the spirit is about speed, not stodginess; individual expression, not conformity; undoing restrictions, not adhering to them.
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It faces financial challenges and box-office struggles of its own but has worked to slough off its old reputation for stodginess, staging new works and rethinking old ones — territory once dominated by City Opera — alongside a flowering of smaller, scrappier companies.
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ESPN's 30 for 30 shop most recently enlisted Charlie Ebersol, the son of former NBC Sports executive and one half of the XFL braintrust Dick Ebersol, to produce a two-ish-hour documentary feature about Vince McMahon's erstwhile counterpoise to the stodginess of the NFL.
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"Looking to the medium term, there remains a case for a little 'stodginess' yet," Cunliffe said in a speech, referring to advice given in 1999 by former U.S. Federal Reserve vice chairman Alan Blinder that central banks should be cautious about raising rates at uncertain economic times.
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Whittemore was Poet Laureate of Maryland and twice served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His poetry is notable for its wry and deflating humor. The poet X.J. Kennedy remarked that "his whole career has been one brave protest against dullness and stodginess." His book The Mother's Breast and the Father's House was a finalist for the National Book Award for poetry.
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Newsom, Jon. "Downes, Olin", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, accessed February 1, 2012 He disparaged many composers later held in general esteem, ranging from the romantic to the atonal, including Elgar, Webern and Berg. Of Elgar's music he wrote, "it reflects the complacency and stodginess of the era of the antimacassar and pork-pie bonnets; it is affected by the poor taste and the swollen orchestral manner of the post-romantics".
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Mayakovsky's caricature of Korney Chukovsky It was at that period that Chukovsky produced his first fantasies for children. The girl from his famous novel 'The Crocodile' was inspired by Lyalya, daughter of his long-time friend, publisher Zinovii Grzhebin. As the 2004 Encyclopædia Britannica put it, "clockwork rhythms and air of mischief and lightness in effect dispelled the plodding stodginess that had characterized pre-revolutionary children's poetry." Subsequently, they were adapted for theatre and animated films, with Chukovsky as one of the collaborators.
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By the early 1990s, profits had fallen as a result of competition from cable television and video rentals, as well as the high cost of programming. About 20 former CBS affiliates switched to the rapidly rising Fox network in the mid-1990s, the first of which were reportedly KDFX in Palm Springs, California, and KECY in Yuma, Arizona, which made the switch in August 1994. Many other television markets lost their CBS affiliate for a while. The network's ratings were acceptable, but it struggled with an image of stodginess.
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The novel became a bestseller. "Man in the gray flannel suit" entered the popular vernacular and the symbol has continued to appear for decades in references of sociologists to America's "discontented businessman". Columnist Bob Greene wrote much later, in 1992, that "[t]he title of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel became part of the American vernacular—the book was a ground-breaking fictional look at conformity in the executive suite, and it was a piece of writing that helped the nation's business community start to examine the effects of its perceived stodginess and sameness." The book was re-issued in 2002 with a foreword by a contemporary author, Jonathan Franzen.
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Retrieved March 22, 2010. All meetings are recorded and can be viewed by any employee as long as the meeting topic is not proprietary. In addition, Dalio says that he fosters "an extreme meritocracy of ideas" and asserts that decisions are made about investments without considerations of hierarchy. He says that any employee can respectfully say anything to anyone in the firm, but they must be prepared to be challenged in return.Taub, Stephen (June 28, 2011)Euromoney Institutional Investor, Bridgewater’s Alpha is up 11 Percent This Year, June 28, 2011, "Dalio also encourages subordinates to challenge their superiors, and expects every employee to express blunt honest opinions" The company's flat corporate structure aims to remove the barriers associated with traditional asset management firms, and qualities like stodginess and risk-aversion are discouraged.
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