Russian cuisine has a reputation for being stodgy, unimaginative fare.
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"Now we dismiss that as corporate or stodgy," says Parks.
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Is "sincerely" timeless and professional, or stodgy and overly formal?
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Robinhood has been credited with revolutionizing the stodgy trading industry.
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Smartphones and consoles make traditional slots and table games look stodgy.
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The company's stodgy board also could use greater independence and diversity.
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They tend to like their movies mainstream and a bit stodgy.
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Stodgy French capitalism can use an outsider to shake it up.
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"Hamilton", by contrast, is based on a stodgy 832-page biography.
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To shake up stodgy old Washington and actually get things done.
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You know, the Times doesn't feel stodgy to me any more.
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For comparatively stodgy family offices, it was still the new, new thing.
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Out are the stodgy old princes; in are the (relatively) youthful reformers.
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Documentaries aren't just the stodgy, stuffy programming you zoom by on PBS.
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Stodgy financial, industrial and property giants continue to dominate Hong Kong's bourse.
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Over stodgy fuel, Leo ponders his first live in-store with Merchandise.
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And ethical shopping isn't as stodgy or difficult as you may think.
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The Red Sport treatment does intensify what could be construed as stodgy.
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The internet's enemies were government or corporate censors and other stodgy gatekeepers.
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"What we cooked was very much on the stodgy side," she said.
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I just didn't want it to feel like an old stodgy corporate office.
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You associate nuns with stodgy old ladies, but to me they're romantic extremists.
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Long viewed as stodgy stocks for dividend-oriented investors, the telecom services sector .
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With thyme leaves, what sounds like a stodgy combination becomes fresh and lively.
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Shareholders want companies to innovate, not get stuck in their stodgy, old ways.
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Here is how stodgy companies are recreating the atmosphere of tech start ups.
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And it's largely been those stodgy old empires doing most of the shoving.
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In a stodgy industry, Seefried stands out, tall and even a little glamorous.
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Storage may seem stodgy, but it's a primary building block for many cloud applications.
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By now I was a sugary, stodgy mess of pancake, chicken nuggets, and cider.
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Beyond the balance sheet, she turned the stodgy SBI into a digital-savvy institution.
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He helped the stodgy Devils win the Stanley Cup in 211, 2000 and 2003.
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If consumers get stodgy with their dollars, retailers may be forced into deeper discounts.
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More recent generations found his music stodgy, but he still commanded a certain reverence.
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The viral Internet had, in effect, created a hipper, edgier cousin to the stodgy Segway.
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Something about that stodgy blue art deco logo just tends to drown out the competition.
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Ang felt this was more appropriate to celebrate her life than a stodgy memorial service.
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Social media influencers are amassing enormous followings on social networks that stodgy brands can't match.
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These are pretty, not stodgy institutions but these are, they have the formal development offices.
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Even the league's stodgy PR guy is cracking jokes in Trump voice about extra points.
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They even cite old English cases in the same way as we stodgy originalists do.
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Nunn, however, can't take all the blame for the terribly-proper tone and stodgy pacing.
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And Taro Kono, 55, is bringing a maverick streak to Japan's usually stodgy political arena.
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Leaders have tried to make church cooler, the music less stodgy, the language more accessible.
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Suddenly, it was the secularists who seemed stodgy: racist, authoritarian, élitist, and slavishly pro-Western.
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The installation brings a similar breath of fresh air to the stodgy period-room concept.
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They provide a welcome diversion from the stodgy content that marks out most MBA courses.
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When even staid, stodgy CBS has jumped into the pool, there's little motivation to sit out.
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Resist the temptation to add extra flour to the dough, or the result will be stodgy.
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The name "magic mushrooms" was coined, improbably, by a headline writer in stodgy old Life magazine.
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Bowers described Goldston as "the keeper of the flame of pure mime," but Goldston isn't stodgy.
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NBC and NBCSN broadcasts are stodgy, devoid of personality, and thinly veiled PR for the league.
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Its price/earnings ratio is around 10 — on par with stodgy companies like Ford and Verizon.
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Balanced funds' virtue is that their stodgy construction discourages investors from defeating themselves, Mr. Kinnel said.
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Audi, Mercedes and BMW are all in southern Germany, a region that is prosperous but stodgy.
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My workplace used to be a stodgy government agency and, until recently, was run like one.
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I'm making her sound stodgy, but her prose is light-handed and leaves a pleasant sting.
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The "(R)evolution" production is stranded, as "Two Boys" was, between stylized fantasy and stodgy realism.
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These have been the occupants of the stodgy, serviceable industrial spaces of Long Island City, Queens.
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A: Your co-op board's new rules may seem cruel, or, at the very least, stodgy.
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It's not stodgy, it slaps, and Raz unloads flows that would make most rappers' heads spin.
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New York (CNN Business)Ryan Williams is on a mission to revolutionize the stodgy real estate industry.
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If it does seem stodgy, moisten with hot broth from the beans or with pasta cooking water.
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In a telling scene, Meredith introduces her stodgy old parents to Nicky, as she calls her fiancé.
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Unlike those in America, the land of Sears and Walmart, China's retail chains were fragmented and stodgy.
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Outside of his sister, Johan finds the most common ground with Andre's stodgy, irascible father (Laurence Fishburne).
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They realized they couldn't remain a "stodgy bank" anymore, and control every aspect of the computing stack.
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That doesn't mean taking over or dragging out a stodgy set of doom-and-gloom talking points.
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But, in fact, that stodgy European sound was exactly what the real-life Hamilton would have appreciated.
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Despite its focus on the work of dead authors, it's a far cry from stodgy academic discourse.
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They're not old and stodgy and just doing the old investment banking and the old market-making.
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Recording Academy voters have been reliably stodgy and ballad-loving, at best befuddled and at worst wrongheaded.
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The capital's dining scene has gotten a bad rap as stodgy, status-driven and lacking a strong identity.
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The mid-motor Ariv is fun to ride, however, whereas the front-loaded Brompton's ride is undeniably stodgy.
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Yet the gaokao system continues to give schools a strong incentive to stuff their students with stodgy facts.
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It turns out that it's not a terrible thing to have the best house in a stodgy neighborhood.
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Video game characters are infamously stodgy, incapable of capturing the same range of emotion as a real person.
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Cuban society is evolving fast, even as the political leadership remains as stodgy as a government-supplied lunch.
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Some scientists have proposed using machine vision algorithms to detect flopping, but soccer is a notoriously stodgy sport.
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Several other teams had also recruited Boddy, an outsider whose scientific approach once clashed with baseball's stodgy establishment.
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Danial Adkison remembers reading The New York Times in college and thinking the paper seemed a little stodgy.
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Once the most innovative of the cloud-based notes apps, Evernote has since evolved into the stodgy elder.
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The latest entry in the series still has a stodgy black chassis, but I wouldn't call it boring.
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You get a lot of stuff like this: These new voices aren't like those stodgy Bush-era Republicans.
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In the swinging '60s, he was the stodgy self-made man: the square in the age of hip.
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Long thought of as baseball's stodgy establishment, the New York Yankees have employed some cutting-edge tactics this season.
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She found that the East Coast was stodgy, hierarchical, and centralized around large corporate behemoths like DEC and EMC.
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The private spaceflight company United Launch Alliance (ULA) usually plays the stodgy uncle to Elon Musk's young, swaggering SpaceX.
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There's nothing stodgy or uncool about having reasonable work day that allows for a workout at 7:30 a.m.
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And the stodgy rules in the heavily regulated, risk-averse aviation sector lag far behind advances in electric drivetrains.
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"I find art kind of off-putting and stodgy, but theirs is really friendly and engaging," Mr. Aisner said.
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Mr. Kono, 55, is one of the most intriguing, bringing a maverick streak to Japan's usually stodgy political world.
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This is no stodgy room of sculptures and religious paintings with a bored security guard stuffed in a corner.
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Gone were majors seen as stodgy or less aligned with a career path — including religion, art history and music.
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Lee is a stodgy fan though, one who sits behind home plate and keeping score, rarely emoting or standing.
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The top stock in Berkshire's portfolio is Apple (AAPL), rather than a stodgy food company, railroad or financial services company.
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Her youthful face made me feel I was talking to a peer, not a stodgy Freudian gazing sternly across spectacles.
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Microsoft is better at selling stodgy business software like Azure and Office than it is competing in the consumer market.
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It's inherently harder to make Clinton cool, thanks to her stodgy political persona and her 25 years in the spotlight.
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It was stodgy, grey, unreadable, and bound in a rulebook that was written by the sort of fogeys Bourdain despised.
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This is a much-needed change for Outlook, which has garnered a reputation for being a stodgy, older email service.
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He will be counted on to continue the transformation of a team that won three Stanley Cups by being stodgy.
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In-N-Out's fresh cut fries sound delicious on paper, but they're well known as being a stodgy, undercooked disappointment.
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The stodgy GOP is fond of labeling all young people as slackers who think the world owes them a favor.
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"I thought he was a little too serious and stodgy, and he thought I was too reckless," Mr. DeWitt said.
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Instead, it was for Tupperware (TUP), the stodgy 73-year-old plastic container maker that has fallen on hard times.
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A moderate in Bavaria's conservative Christian Social Union who has nonetheless championed Mr Orban, he typifies this stodgy, machine-political Europe.
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It is shaking up a stodgy banking system and helping build a more efficient one, especially for consumers and small businesses.
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The feature could revitalize Facebook, which looks a little stale and stodgy compared to Snapchat, with its focus on creative tools.
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J. Paul Getty, the richest man in the world at the time, is played in both works by stodgy old men.
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Instead, in the mayor's current stodgy system, principals are too often afraid to have their own ideas or their own voice.
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In a sport that is often perceived as old, slow and stodgy, Syndergaard was brilliant and exciting and larger-than-life.
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That call quickly became controversial because ... well, because there are a lot of stodgy old football heads who don't understand math.
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In comparison, it makes other chat apps feel stiff and stodgy, like they're trying to confine your communication into siloed buckets.
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Ouch. The criticism stings because Srnicek and Williams aren't wing nuts of the right, or stodgy suits, or even quailing centrists.
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Thus the rich and powerful become seen as rebels while the opposition is cast as stodgy protectors of the status quo.
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"Instead of saying, 'Hey, you guys are old and stodgy, and you move slow,' we're actually trying be cooperative," Moore said.
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AT&T, like Verizon, are interested in pivoting from stodgy, turf-protecting telecom operators to sexy new Millennial-focused advertising behemoths.
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And hopefully, with these new trends of change, they can catch the stodgy semi-annual event up with the 21st century.
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The big houses have been dismissed by many as stodgy and dull, more interested in marketing products than producing great wine.
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Perhaps they'll be better, in which case you'd feel like a rube for putting too much money in a stodgy annuity.
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Some readers (me included) like the tone of civility and seriousness the titles convey; others find them old-fashioned and stodgy.
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Somehow, Thomas Bach, the I.O.C. president, and his stodgy cronies have succeeded in creating a new look for the old Olympics.
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And stodgy network TV — about all there was on TV then — didn't reflect their culture or the turmoil they were experiencing.
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That he survived at such a rarefied level suggested that he was more politically adroit than his stodgy public image indicated.
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That he survived at such a rarefied level suggested that he was more politically adroit than his stodgy public image indicated.
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So it goes for this stalwart, if stodgy, sector: Real estate can often chug along when other sectors start to sputter.
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You know design is having its moment when IBM, the stodgy normcore dad of the tech industry, gets in on the action.
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There is lots of hype and a degree of heresy, given that stodgy utilities are making use of an anti-establishment technology.
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Traditional automakers are golf-ball stodgy; Tesla is kind of bananas at least in part because it's aiming to create a future.
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Many are hoping that marketing campaigns centered around "social good" will improve the narrative that older corporate giants are stodgy and ruthless.
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While electric vehicles initially earned a reputation for being slow and stodgy and offering limited range, that is no longer the case.
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What you will find, though is deliciously stodgy pound cakes and local cabbies hoovering up greasy bacon sarnies before heading to work.
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It is Dijon's first Design Hotel member, and interior spaces are accordingly whimsical and contemporary, a refreshing touch in sometimes stodgy Burgundy.
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And while startups often thrive by forcing stodgy markets to change, disruption is a far riskier proposition when it comes to debt.
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As gaming grows increasingly immersive, there's a stodgy charm to Football Manager's clunky graphics and overwhelming array of variables and data points.
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Some view advertising as stodgy — who wants to make a 30-second TV commercial when everyone they know is cutting the cord?
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The Yankees and the Red Sox, these days, are the stodgy old couple, paired together forever but without much present-day pizzazz.
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A half-decade ago, Verizon executives decided they'd try and convert a stodgy old telecom monopoly into a sexy new advertising juggernaut.
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Teddy Schleifer: This is part of a broader push by you, internally, to make the stodgy Wall Street institution more relatable, right?
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The last stage of Mr. Stumpf's fall from grace must have come faster than anyone, including Wells Fargo's stodgy board, had expected.
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Andras Schiff is both pianist and conductor for this subscription series, with a slightly stodgy program that should work well in practice.
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At the time, he presented a happy contrast to incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who seemed stodgy, cynical and petty by comparison.
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Because of their practicality and egalitarianism, commercial colleges often hosted a spirit of rebellion against the elitism and stodgy classicism of academia.
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Stodgy people tend to offer some version of this argument every time a politician uses a communications medium in some novel way.
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The result was a hurtle, highly praised by critics, including Mr. Rich, who deemed Mr. Eustis's Los Angeles production "stodgy" by comparison.
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He said a stodgy property market and the recent "binge" on credit card borrowing presented the biggest risks to the U.K. economy.
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With a storytelling style that grabs viewers by the throat, Ms. Nevins helped change the image of documentaries from stodgy to provocative.
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Only that hearsay tends to stick, though, much like the idea that British food is inherently bland, stodgy and lacking in imagination.
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In case you weren't aware, Verizon is trying to transform itself from a stodgy old telecom company into a hip digital media publisher.
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EQUITY research, the business of providing analysis of companies' financial performance, may be a stodgy industry but it is not a simple one.
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Basically, it's made for "creators" just like me — YouTube stars who make their own videos rather than some stodgy boring old TV stuff.
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New York (CNN Business)Tiffany & Co. has been working hard to change its stodgy image to court millennials over the past few years.
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"Training and development has been around forever, but LMSs are boring, stodgy, super expensive and no one likes to use them," Blosser said.
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American companies still largely view the Indian financial sector as stodgy and are focused on the urban affluent consumers, versus the entire country.
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"It's not a stodgy museum where things are on the wall, and you read the description and you keep walking," Mr. Nesteroff said.
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He believes they are stodgy, bureaucratic, stuck in the past, and too beholden to traditions and arrangements that have built up over time.
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Rugby league uses 13 players and is considered to be less stodgy and more wide-open than its 15-player relative, rugby union.
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Enter: the TikTok account of an equally stodgy publication that has, against all odds, managed to feel truly native to the TikTok ecosystem.
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In recent years, there's been a rejection of the stodgy old alphabet in favor of organizational principles driven by color, size and genre.
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"I love it when there's a stodgy old industry and somebody walks in and says, 'Let's just turn this upside down,'" Cuban said.
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The performances were often stodgy or familiar — particularly the ballets, which by Degas's time were little more than a sideshow between opera acts.
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It was his way of saying how he felt about his own living situation in the stodgy, convention-bound land of his birth.
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Facebook's text and link-heavy feed looks increasingly stodgy and exhausting compared to visual communication-based social networks like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok.
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Xerox is soaring because it is making a bold bet to morph from a stodgy documents company into a more dynamic tech firm.
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But this being the stodgy Senate, there were no photographers on hand to capture the scene, since they are banned from the chamber.
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It's also a sign that these technologies have drastically dropped in cost and are increasingly safe investments for the notoriously stodgy utility sector.
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Usually, they are stodgy former Wall Street guys who've landed big jobs in tech but are uncomfortable wearing anything other than a suit.
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So for a lot of younger queer people, a word like 'lesbian' is starting to feel a little bit old and stodgy and stale.
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Or even an unattractive, stodgy phone case that helps you associate the phone with a purposeful and quick transaction rather than leisure and fun.
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For now it has dismissed the option of capping tech firms' profits and regulating them like utilities, which would make them stodgy, permanent monopolies.
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The tallest building west of the Mississippi River opened yesterday in once-stodgy downtown Los Angeles, which is sprouting a crop of new skyscrapers.
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This is not just because the economy is biased toward heavy industry and dominated by stodgy state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that overinvest and underperform.
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However, for a film displaying such radical, political, and invigorating art, Black Is the Color is a conventional, one could even say stodgy documentary.
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Still, selecting municipal bonds is not as simple as it was before the spate of defaults changed what was generally a stodgy asset class.
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In other words, it sounds like some of Prince Harry's stodgy friends could benefit from widening their worldview and hobbies to activities beyond shooting.
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This bodes well for Hong Kong, which wants to diversify away from the stodgy financial, property and industrial groups that dominate the local market.
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What differentiates the Spanish croqueta from the sometimes-stodgy canned salmon croquettes once popular in the United States has mainly to do with texture.
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TC: There's no shortage of companies trying to wring efficiencies out of the stodgy trucking business, including TransFix, Cargomatic, Cargo Chief, and Trucker Path.
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The extended parental leave may also help Goldman shed its stodgy persona and compete with top tech companies, who typically have more flexible policies.
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We, the consuming public, have failed to properly understand the new tech superpowers, he suggests, leaving little hope for stodgy and reluctant American regulators.
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The incident renewed the debate about celebration etiquette in a stodgy sport, and Anderson heard criticism about being cocky and not respecting the game.
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Apostol is a magician with language (think Borges, think Nabokov) who can swing from slang and mockery to the stodgy argot of critical theory.
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"We demystify therapy and take it out of a stodgy, dusty, stigmatized thing and make it practical and normal and real," Mr. Brittle said.
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It's like 1969 all over again, with smokeless vapes instead of gurgling bong hits; their stodgy, cynical, heartless parents won't give peace a chance.
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These new policies reflect a "stodgy business Republicanism" befitting an establishment figure like Jeb Bush, and they may just cost President Trump his base.
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When the stodgy Vassar literary magazine wouldn't accept their writing, the two young women joined with friends to form a magazine of their own.
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What is science with its stodgy physiology and evidence-based medicine against the allure of the patient anecdote and the promise of a cure?
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As a more traditional journalist with stodgy notions about the value of an independent press, I was eager to see the empathy machine in action.
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Fenkell and Katzman thought of a way to disrupt the stodgy industry: have patients make their own dental impressions at home, ditching the office visit.
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The capital's dining scene still chafes under a bad rap as stodgy, status-driven and lacking a strong identity, but these restaurants prove otherwise. 9.
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But Oliver, a 24-year-old charming professor at Columbia, is different than prior years' stodgy academics, brought on to help with Elio's father's research.
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A series of major mergers was supposed to transform AT&T from a stodgy old phone company into a slick online video and advertising juggernaut.
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Oscar positioned itself as a "simple, smart" alternative to stodgy industry giants — a health plan meant to live on smartphones and deliver virtual doctor visits.
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Oh, and then there's the fact that stodgy old General Motors beat Tesla to (the announcement of) the mass-produced, longer-range, affordable electric car.
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They view tech as fast-moving, inventive and needing to be free of bureaucracy — while government is staid, stodgy and constrained by restrictive red tape.
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He is not the cool dad who lets you stay up late, nor is he the stodgy dad who can't imagine why you'd want to.
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JOSEPH SCHUMPETER gave the name "creative destruction" to the process by which new and innovative firms displace stodgy ones, thereby driving long-run economic growth.
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But the occasionally stodgy Emmys, which sometimes latch on to winners (like Ms. Louis-Dreyfus) and stay with them, was also infused with new blood.
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"I think it would be good for a capital to have some big employers, not just the big stodgy government as an employer," she said.
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A Good Appetite Braised with tangy citrus and garlic, and topped with a mix of spring lettuces and herbs, this is no stodgy Passover main.
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The result is that Cadillac, a brand that had begun to transform its stodgy, retiree-only image during G.M.'s post-bankruptcy comeback, is struggling.
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In his early 20s, he founded a theater company in Melbourne, the Hayloft Project, and began directing classical plays, rewriting scenes that felt stodgy, outdated.
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Under the younger Mr. Lee's youthful but largely untested leadership, Samsung has tried to shed its stodgy image, vowing repeatedly to improve its corporate governance.
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The stodgy and trite "Resumptio" (1974) suggests another announcement of the return from the dead of gooey, muscular paint application, albeit rather dull in hue.
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In the 1990s and early 2000s stodgy telecoms firms such as AT&T spun-off their mobile arms only to be reunited with them years later.
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So the company did something that — at least in the stodgy world of telecommunications services — seemed radical: It got serious about competing with its larger rivals.
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Rather, the common perception has been of the museum as a fairly stodgy institution concerned with cultivating institutional authority on the subject of American contemporary art.
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Stodgy Western banks keen to prove they can do fintech would be well advised to study DBS, a Singaporean bank with a market value of $51bn.
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"With my new show, I'm trying to connect with people in what I think is an old-fashioned way without being old and stodgy," Rosenthal said.
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The famously stodgy company is partnering with a weed startup and becoming the first big corporation that'll touch the weed business with a 10-foot pole.
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He thinks things like pretending to be a BuzzFeed editor and tweeting stuff like "#FeminismIsCancer" is a "hilarious" way to stick it to stodgy liberal elites.
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"We thought this was a good way to show people, 'We are not an old, stodgy, stuck-in-the-mud kind of company,' " Mr. Pettinelli said.
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No matter how pink the tulips or yellow the forsythia, when Seder-celebrating cooks plan their menu, a stodgy brown brisket is almost always on it.
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During Mr. Miller's presidency, Ford reported record sales and earnings, introduced the Mustang and other slick-back models and revolutionized its stodgy management and financial practices.
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During that time, the Vanguard Total Bond Market index fund, the largest fund that sticks with stodgy Treasuries and other high-grade bonds, gained 2.4 percent.
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It dumps everything that's now par for the course in superhero movies: boring action mostly featuring men and computers, and stories about their stodgy tortured psyches.
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A new Cabinet minister wants to be able to respond to social change more directly so convinces a group of stodgy jurists to relinquish their seats.
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Although the book is not a seamless narrative, and its writing is sometimes stodgy, Cozzens admirably succeeds in framing the Indian Wars with acute historical accuracy.
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I'm not talking about stodgy old brown furniture, but some sizable and boldly colored postmodern pieces they collected and love but no longer have room for.
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The Hall of Fame has a reputation as a stodgy institution that values money over artistry, and primarily exists to validate the tastes of graying baby boomers.
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In reality, though, firms like Tencent through it's almost ubiquitous WeChat messaging platform have already moved far ahead of China's stodgy and debt-laden state banking system.
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"He defies the traditional stodgy image of politicians and mostly goes without a tie, works standing behind a desk and flies economy class," the Associated Press reports.
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Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — I would bet that the majority of people who don't solve regularly probably see crossword puzzles as very stodgy, two-dimensional, nonhumorous intellectual ventures.
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While companies may be trying to promote bonding and avoid looking stodgy, those clear downsides of drinking may be why some workers would like to opt out.
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I felt stodgy and frozen, woozy with lethargy, and at the same time prickling with a static sense of anxiety that became especially charged around other people.
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When comic irony is synonymous with hipness, any other sensibility, whether it's religious solemnity or emo-style earnestness, just seems stodgy and out of touch by comparison.
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His bland reply was reflective of both the communications savvy necessary to the reboot of a stodgy fashion behemoth and also, to a certain extent, the truth.
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While the words "crossbody travel bag" might bring to mind a stodgy nylon number with a few too many zippers, that doesn't have to be the case.
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A stodgy board led by Stephen W. Sanger, the chairman, put him in charge last September in what seems like an autopilot move to replace Mr. Stumpf.
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It justified this by presenting itself — as far as it could get away with it — as a tech firm, rather than a stodgy reseller of office space.
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"I didn't want to make nursery food," Mr. Henderson said in an interview last month, about the stodgy classics that long gave British food a bad name.
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"Many of the hotels on the island are stodgy, but the Kimpton is modern and should appeal to a younger demographic as well as families," he said.
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You might have fond memories of your grandpa inhaling a stodgy steak and kidney pie and going in for seconds when he thought no one was looking.
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The industry may be old and stodgy, but Quilt is hoping that with its new enrollment process, it can get you covered (I see what they did there).
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Although the industry is now suffering from low oil prices, it is a rare example of entrepreneurial spirit taking on a stodgy industry to the benefit of all.
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In fact, the company decided to change the name from Insurance Zebra to The Zebra because being associated with a "stodgy" industry was turning off would-be employees.
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That "stodgy tale of internecine feuding" that revolves around Wakanda's reckoning with the "sins of past generations" refers to the final sequences that left other critics in tears.
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The book, which built on the work of other poets like José Martí, shattered the stodgy literary norms of the day and breathed new life into the language.
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He paid way above the odds for a couple of companies in an attempt to leave behind the company's stodgy image - before being effectively forced out in 2014.
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His breakthrough came when he was presented with the chance to lead the Montreal-based Canadian subsidiary of Standard Brands, a stodgy operation that included Chase & Sanborn coffee.
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The shootout resulted in the stodgy, tradition-based, resistant-to-change FBI finally deciding to issue its agents semi-automatic pistols, replacing the revolvers they'd carried for decades.
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The NBA, NHL, and MLB will let you pay a lesser fee to subscribe to a single team for a season, but not the stodgy and backwards NFL.
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His aim is to turn a stodgy European conglomerate into a cutting-edge pharmaceuticals firm by decluttering it of unwanted assets and placing big bets on advanced medicines.
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You have your major department stores carrying the big names, and while they're mostly filled with stodgy stuff your parents like, occasionally there's something you'd be seen in.
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It is a far cry from the meagre and stodgy offerings at the kiosks and shops of Nogoon Nuur, a ger district less than seven kilometres to the north.
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His new cries of dismay are a pointed reminder that political promises, even those of a vice president, are subsequently filtered through stodgy and often recalcitrant layers of bureaucracy.
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Yet where his 117-minute film was light as wedding cake, this series sprawls to ten stodgy episodes: not a night out with the girls, but a hen weekend.
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Alas, the vote-hungry politicians, stodgy bureaucrats, dreamy professors and opportunistic middlemen who often end up steering policy do not always succeed in making the most of scarce resources.
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When Bush was in the race, Cruz donors and allies frequently spoke of him as stodgy and deeply out-of-touch with the conservative party on issues like immigration.
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The mother, Lorelai, has at least seven monologues where she uses junk food to delineate the difference between herself and her parents — a couple of stodgy, controlling, one-percenters.
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Where jazz and soul once felt like a stodgy realm for old (often white) people, it has been reclaimed by the youth and the communities it was birthed from.
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China's internet companies in recent years have increasingly encroached on areas served by traditional banks as the government encourages change in its stodgy and largely state-owned finance industry.
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So to raise more than $7 billion in the world's largest new share sale in two years, a stodgy Chinese bank has sought a little help from its friends.
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And from the British, who arrived in the 17th century: custard, soufflé and a somewhat stodgy fish-in-white-sauce recipe that Parsis improved with a slosh of vinegar.
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Peak stupid Adam Sandler terrorizing a stodgy golf community in a hockey jersey has never been more satisfying than in the years of our elitist, golf course-owning president.
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It's a messy, costly turn to an audacious corporate experiment — one that tried to remake the stodgy old business of subletting office space into a cutting-edge technology play.
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Last year, he released his debut album, "Kingfish," which is both deeply reverent of tradition and yet not stodgy in any way; it's nominated for best traditional blues album.
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"Victoria" follows, in broad fashion, historical events, but its primary interest is in presenting its heroine as doe-eyed, headstrong and romantic, in contrast to her traditionally stodgy image.
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While running for president, John Kerry and Mitt Romney favored the same look, which only gave them the appearance of stodgy bosses trying hard to bond with their employees.
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For several years, Microsoft has sought to shed its reputation as a stodgy seller of traditional software, highly dependent on the ups and downs of the personal computing market.
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But as the grower Champagnes have become more popular, the movement has had an unintended consequence: a widespread dismissal of the big Champagne houses as dull, stodgy and uninteresting.
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Banks, once technologically-stodgy firms that preferred to build most of their applications in-house, are increasingly joining up with leading companies to keep up with consumers' climbing expectations.
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Its regimented routines can seem stodgy at a time when young people are flocking to more freewheeling forums for scientific creativity, like software hackathons and hardware engineering Maker Faires.
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Once the private sanctuary for some of world's richest and most powerful men, Augusta National shed some of its stodgy old boy image during a 24-hour goodwill blitz.
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He got rid of Bendix's boardroom table as a stodgy artifact of the past, banned executive parking spaces and often dressed in a style now known as business casual.
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One analyst, Ben Kim, who is younger, wears an Arc'teryx brand vest, made of a thin performance fabric, which is hipper and more youthful than a stodgy fleece or puffer.
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This industry is known for being old, stodgy, and hard to penetrate, so it is key that the initial product can coincide with the current software to make adoption frictionless.
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The stodgy race-issues drama In the Heat of the Night, a movie about a white cop and a black cop who learn to overcome their prejudices by working together.
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The other problem: The more lawmaker endorsements come Rubio's way, the more it cuts against his effort to showcase himself as an outsider who can shake up a stodgy institution.
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HBO's John Adams is the definition of Hollywood respectability, refined but stodgy; Patrick Walsh's drunken account of Jefferson publicly accusing Adams of being a secret "hermaphrodite" requires no such solemnity.
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The first steps for Congress will be organizing the knowledge of geographic constituencies so that it is trusted and relevant, and then integrated into the stodgy, old processes of lawmaking.
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Investigators first suspected figures from the avant-garde art world, including the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had denigrated the Louvre for being stodgy, of being involved in the heist.
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This tossed, casual look also works well for Venet's sculpture "Collapse: Five Indeterminate Lines" (2009) that animates a group of circular metal forms that when vertically arrayed can look stodgy.
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I say remember, even though it still exists — it was such a scene in the 1980s, I'm sure I'd know if that craziness had continued into my stodgy old age.
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Produced by NPR, the series began in September 22020 with Mr. Raz interviewing the Spanx founder Sara Blakely, setting the tone that it would be about business without being stodgy.
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The stodgy detective Kutt-Hendy sets out to capture the elusive criminal who, in the very first scene, is revealed as Baroness Troixmond — a name suggestive of her multiple identities.
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Google's liberal stance toward self-expression, enabled by those online forums, was created in part to show that it is not bound by the conventions that stifle more stodgy companies.
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In the era of #MeToo, where institutions are supposed to be moving toward making campuses more tolerant, Indiana University looks like a stodgy and calcified institution uninterested in egalitarian reform.
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To explain the decline, McCauley essentially relies on the argument that museums have long been stodgy and too traditionally educative, to provide a convincing welcome to other than middle-class audiences.
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Poker-faced historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Lewis Payne suddenly look less stodgy, becoming the kind of warm-blooded people you could imagine laughing or eating or yawning.
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They also just don't seem to get caught in ruts the way the Emmys do, and instead have recognized teen dramas, streaming platforms, and supernatural-themed shows over stodgy old favorites.
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Audi's designers boosted the car's aerodynamics by replacing bulky sideview mirrors with cameras supported by slender arms—yet another feature that won't make it to the US, thanks to stodgy regulations.
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Newcastle hasn't been the easiest place to find converts to the Neapolitan way, and Kitchin says he is not in the business of "pandering" to the pale, stodgy Northern status quo.
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The "Daily Show" contributor (also known as the stodgy P.C. in those long-running "Get a Mac" TV ads) gives listeners a gauzy look at a success tinged with self-doubt.
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In the midst of an effort to transform from a stodgy hardware business to more of a software company, Cisco has just lost one of its top executives spurring the transition.
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Trump Hotels is hardly the first lodging company to introduce a new brand aimed at younger customers who may be turned off by older names that can be seen as stodgy.
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Even the town's stodgy mayor is going to succumb to the savage yearnings unleashed by Conrad's driving guitar licks and gyrating pelvis, which at Goodspeed belong to the formidable Rhett Guter.
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Desserts, however, hadn't been keeping up for the most part, remaining resolutely stodgy and "Continental" — tiramisù and chocolate mousse cakes — at fancy restaurants, and generally uninspired at bakeries and tea shops.
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Lee Kun-hee, then the company's chair, announced an ambitious plan to remake Samsung's insular and stodgy corporate culture and turn Samsung into a globally known brand like GE or Sony.
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While Amesbury House of Pizza's pies exhibited those two Greek pizza touchstones—the lacy, crisp edge and the fried bottom crust—The Pizza Factory's pies are comparatively stodgy and one-note.
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Gold miner Newmont (NEM) and stodgy Dow consumer giants Coca-Cola (KO) and McDonald's (MCD) are in the top five holdings of the iShares Edge MSCI Minimum Volatility USA ETF (USMV).
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As a result, Gayeski said investors could be missing out on bigger gains by shunning riskier parts of the stock market, such as tech, in favor of stodgy, dependable dividend payers.
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The Haggler can even admire T-Mobile's self-anointment as "the un-carrier," which suggests it is a departure from the (putatively) stodgy grumps at companies like Verizon and AT&T.
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Women have long worked on those performances behind the scenes, but in keeping its cast resolutely all-male, the club seemed ever more like the stodgy relics it might have targeted.
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Obama was, however, closely politically aligned with Silicon Valley and was much more likely to deliver anti-monopoly regulation when the targets were stodgy telecom companies than sexy high-tech ones.
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The State Department's "Think Again, Turn Away" public relations campaign, which has the noble goal of countering the Islamic State's propaganda, has floundered since its inception because its content is comically stodgy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some tech-heavy U.S. fund managers have turned to the once-stodgy payments sector as an alternative to so-called FANG stocks as high-flyers like Facebook Inc (FB.
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Norwest also invests across stages, including everything from seed-stage companies to so-called growth equity opportunities, which usually center on non-core-tech companies that nevertheless tech-enable different, stodgy verticals.
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Although many artists, especially in hip hop, have been getting their music to fans without the help of a label for decades, Chance has taken an unusual path to stodgy industry recognition.
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The best two sectors so far this year are the fast-growing tech sector and stodgy old utilities, continuing an odd race that has been going on for more than 18 months.
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From stodgy banks (facing a putative threat from fintech) to electric utilities (which might be disrupted by batteries and smart grids) it is a similar story: valuations imply that investors are relaxed.
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Stars from the famed red Michelin guidebook could thrust restaurants into the international spotlight and help Washington further shed its image as a city of stodgy steakhouses designed for political power lunches.
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But what might make even more sense is this: if prepaid carriers are using the same networks as the big, stodgy carriers and offering significantly reduced prices, why not switch to prepaid?
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In the paranoid view of stodgy shopkeepers, the hoodie is to be feared for extinguishing individuality; in its politicized life, it mutes identity to signal alliance, not unlike a resistance group's uniform.
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"It's not this image of the stodgy cadre who must be exactly dyed and dressed in the right mold," said Julian Gewirtz, a scholar who studies Chinese history and politics at Harvard.
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They display no aesthetic commitment to these musical usages themselves, flaunting them instead as tokens of edge, an association that works only when being a stodgy old rock band is the backdrop.
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He'll tell them that the shareholders are friendly, that although it's a tall building (26 floors), it has the feel of a small building and that it's the direct opposite of stodgy.
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He could&aposve afforded to send his daughter to a renowned private school, but he didn&apost want her in a stodgy environment like the kind he was exposed to growing up.
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He controls two teams in the resurrected Arena Football League and is pitching networks a gambling-centric concept for its games that's too overt for the stodgy N.F.L., at least for now.
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We — a few stodgy editors and public-news producers aside —can congratulate ourselves that we recognize that this is the new profanity, not words referring to things like poop and sexual congress.
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The venture capital–backed insurer launched in 277, positioning itself as a "simple, smart" alternative to stodgy industry giants — a health plan meant to live on smartphones and deliver virtual doctor visits.
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Question: Is it possible that younger women and people of color realized there were only limited potential benefits to trying to fraternize with a bunch of old white men in stodgy Midtown restaurants?
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It suited the ambiguity of the closing mood of "Hippolyte" and seemed fair compensation for the sometimes stodgy pacing Mr. Woolfe complains of (his word, "stolid"), which only emphasized the work's occasional longueurs.
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But this dedication to fewer ads isn't consistent across broadcasters, and outdated advertising models are only one small part of the evolutionary challenges facing stodgy old cable companies in the cord cutting era.
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And so stodgy old C-SPAN threw out its own rulebook in service of its mission, beaming a kind of pirate radio broadcast of the Democrats' protest into millions of homes (and laptops).
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Soon afterward, inspired by business leaders he had met while at Stanford, Rothenberg planted himself in San Francisco and got down to the business of trying to shake up the stodgy venture industry.
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Several stodgy versions later, I happily settled on a white cornbread batter into which I folded grated carrots, scallions, South Asian aromatics (cumin, mustard seeds, turmeric and cayenne) and crumbled feta cheese. Success.
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Willamette Week, our alternative weekly, runs a "Cannabis" column, with articles about strains and reviews of shops, and the Oregonian, ordinarily a stodgy paper, recently ran an illustrated guide to rolling a joint.
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The role of family in Malone's work could not have been clearer than at his opening at Collective — a joyful, intergenerational affair more akin to a busy game night than a stodgy art opening.
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Yet if Cox's casting as a transgender woman was hailed as something of a breakthrough on stodgy old CBS, she's left spouting pretty banal courtroom dialogue for the most part, along with everyone else.
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Cleveland (CNN)When Donald Trump rolls into the Buckeye State, he's looking for a little more glitz and glamour -- and perhaps fewer stodgy speeches that have served as the hallmark of traditional Republican conventions.
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So here's a fun confession: my favorite Thursday night activity is to get high, dress up in my most modest ensemble, and gorge myself on cheap, stodgy Jewish food in Hasidic neighborhoods after dark.
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The company wants to reorient how consumers think about the PC, from a stodgy platform for office work and games into an art station capable of striking at the heart of Apple's creative demographic.
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President Barack Obama wearing a VR headset isn't noteworthy in the way Obama using a BlackBerry was — that was a story about a technologically stodgy institution catching up with the rest of the world.
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Three disembodied arms mounted on pedestals are some of the closest objects in the Psychedelic Pizza Parlor to what stodgy Europeans a few centuries back might have considered "art," but they're still pretty zany.
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Marx and Engels's takeover of a stodgy workers'-rights group called the League of the Just is a premonition of the tactical ruthlessness that would become characteristic of Communist parties in the 20th century.
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In Austria, the leader of the victorious People's Party, Sebastian Kurz, 31, has tried to put a fresh, young face on his stodgy conservative party, changing its traditional black color to a trendy turquoise.
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Its stodgy state-run television station and the party mouthpiece newspaper each have far more Facebook "likes" than popular Western news brands like CNN and Fox News, a likely indication of big ad buys.
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Not as stodgy as they were once considered, corporate venture capital shops (CVCs) have grown in popularity as investment vehicles for cash-rich corporations hoping to avoid being killed off by more vibrant upstarts.
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He enjoyed the challenge, but the work could be stodgy: When Fisher called him, Potter was working a seven-year, $13 million case that hinged on federal leasing rules for long-haul trucking companies.
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David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, in its current bland-shoebox form, doesn't inspire unconventional thinking, as Disney Hall does; many of the New York Philharmonic's exciting offerings take place outside its stodgy home.
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Its name, William Murray Golf, carries a stodgy whiff of Judge Elihu Smails (another character from the movie), though the marketing copy says the clothes are meant to "introduce casual irreverence" to the links.
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Its stodgy state-run television station and the party mouthpiece newspaper each have far more Facebook ''likes'' than popular Western news brands like CNN and Fox News, a likely indication of big ad buys.
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Handsomely photographed (by the Belgian wizard Christophe Beaucarne) and unimaginatively directed by Vincent Perez, this stodgy story of how a long-married German couple became peas beneath the Nazi mattress has a comforting familiarity.
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Modern clubs like Soho House in New York City were founded in the tradition of 19th-century clubs, and their members include young, media-savvy professionals who find athletic and university clubs too stodgy.
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But Obama has focused his energies in two particular areas, aspects of competition policy that don't involve antitrust enforcement like occupational licensing and aspects of antitrust policy that apply specifically to stodgy telecom utilities.
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Some of it funded Verizon's attempt to pivot from stodgy old telco to sexy Millennial ad company in the wake of its acquisition of AOL and Yahoo, an effort that's not going all that well.
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Campaigners, who spiced up the stodgy talks with a dash of sit-ins and marches, were right to decry the lack of ambition as unequal to the task of sparing future generations from climate catastrophe.
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Rakesh Kapoor, Reckitt's CEO since 2011, has a reputation for savvy deal-making and financial rigour in his quest to turn Reckitt from a stodgy British maker of cleaning products into a consumer healthcare powerhouse.
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Long viewed as stodgy stocks for dividend-oriented investors, the telecom services sector was renamed communication services last September and supercharged with internet heavyweights Alphabet Inc, Facebook, Netflix and Twitter Inc, along with videogame makers.
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Putting one of the stodgy stalwarts as Punk's replacement threatens to uncork the vitriol all over again, at a time when nobody at WWE can figure out how to make their babyfaces on Raw work.
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Office booze has gained popularity, particularly among tech startups run by young CEOs, as it helps avoid an old, stodgy company image and is believed to encourage an environment where employees enjoy their time together.
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The editing is clean, but the story is stodgy; David Holmes's music has drive and purpose where the narrative has none; outside the holy trinity of Clooney, Pitt, and Damon, the actors are under-utilized.
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Among some younger readers, The Times may still have a reputation for being the older generation's newspaper, that stodgy Gray Lady who at times tries to be hip, but hews to 166 years of tradition.
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While rock-conventional song structures still dominate, both records abound with glittery synthesizer, honking horns, jaggedy postpunk beats, dancier tempos and textures, really, anything to prove they're not some stodgy old rock band, they're cool.
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"She changed the face of classical music radio in this country from its former somewhat stodgy and patrician sound and format to a warmer, friendly and more conversational medium," Mr. Alley said in an email.
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The same cost-benefit analyses that Republicans demand of other regulations show that these Dodd-Frank rules benefit economic growth more than they slow it, based on data gathered by stodgy, objective, international banking experts.
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In her performance work, Guérédrat has found a younger and more open energy in the Americas — away from the stodgy, traditionalist French culture that, according to her, has consistently questioned her legitimacy as an artist.
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More recent stories about the tenuous alliance to unseat Amazon cite Google as a bit player on the side of Walmart, rather than a tech giant dragging stodgy brick-and-mortars into the future of commerce.
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The rewriting of the exam on wealth and asset management to embrace computer and data science illustrates the degree to which the once-stodgy business of selling securities is becoming a playpen for nerds and robots.
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NASA may be seen as stodgy and bureaucratic, though that is changing under the space agency's young, reformist leader, NASA Administrator Jim BridenstineJames (Jim) Frederick BridenstineMaking space exploration cool again In-space refueling vs heavy lift?
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While the Santa Barbara company was the incumbent disruptor of the stodgy whole-room audio systems of the past, deep-pocketed tech giants like Google and Apple have invested heavily in audio streaming hardware and APIs.
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The joke is just one example of the weirdly stodgy, retrograde, sex-negative, anti-feminist humor that plagues Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's otherwise strong third season—and, to a large degree, executive producer Tina Fey's entire career.
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I made it at home after a long, inadequate restaurant dinner, kneeling in front of my broiler to keep an eye on the bubbling Cheddar, wondering where this stodgy little dreamboat had been all my life.
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Crossrail was built by a Britain whose strength grew, for better and worse, out of a longstanding, stodgy but reliable confidence that the country knew itself and where it hoped to go in the century ahead.
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What's different now is that rather than using a varietal label, or even a stodgy, snobby moniker like Meritage (which has been used for high-end Bordeaux blends), commodity wines are reaching for evocative brand names.
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CBS, which had spent much of the '80s struggling to escape its growing reputation as a network filled with stodgy, conservative storytelling, was only too happy to have this zeitgeist-driving, Emmy-winning program leading the way.
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I smeared the plates with a combination of tomato paste and water in order to soften up the stodgy bran, covered them in a generous layer of cheese, and finished them off with my toppings of choice.
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At internal meetings, Parker talked about the opportunities to modernize the pharmacy experience and to develop an aspirational brand, like what Warby Parker created in the stodgy eyeglasses market, rather than constantly reminding people that they're sick.
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The Ordinary's Granactive Retinoid* 2% Emulsion sold out at Sephora shortly thereafter, another nail in the coffin for retinoids' former reputation for being stodgy anti-aging ingredients that are either prohibitively expensive or only available by prescription.
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Aiming mainly at a young clientele, the new tools offer an updated take on traditional, somewhat stodgy savings advice — start small, contribute regularly and take satisfaction as your balance grows — in an effort to make saving fun.
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That, in a nutshell, is how Albert Bourla, the newish chief executive of Pfizer, described the merger of the giant drugmaker's stodgy but profitable off-patent division, Upjohn, and Mylan, a big but struggling generic-drug firm.
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In a conservative society where even homosexuality is frowned upon, let alone sex-reassignment, her life would seem to place Ms Jin well outside the stodgy mainstream of Chinese broadcasting (she is pictured at her home in Shanghai).
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But he follows that up by reducing the film's climax: But from here Black Panther spirals into a stodgy tale of internecine feuding, in which T'Challa is required to come to terms with the sins of past generations.
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" (Apparently, the only sufficiently stodgy way to critique a bill that seeks to regulate the internet is to peer back into a political era that basically predates it.) "Things would change tomorrow if you could get sued.""Sen.
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The state's capital is indeed a healthcare mecca for its four million people, and has the facilities that you'd expect in an American city—stodgy towers filled with doctors' offices, and sprawling campuses of big-box medical centers.
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Myfanwy (rhymes with Tiffany) Thomas is in "The Rook," a new series beginning Sunday on Starz that combines elements of a mutant-superhero story, a spy thriller and a workplace drama set in a romantically stodgy Anglophilic institution.
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You can knock Twitter for a lot of things—letting Neo-Nazis harass folks while banning those who fight back being chief among them—but a particularly stodgy corner of rap fandom doesn't care about all of that.
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That liquid has dissolved starch from the pasta in it, which can improve the texture of your sauce — if it's thick or stodgy, you can add the water to thin it and even out the consistency, Lancaster says.
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By targeting a corporate giant's weakness — high prices or inconvenience or a stodgy image — a clever start-up with the right strategy, the right message and the right product value could create a new national brand virtually overnight.
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Although the new rules unleashed a tongue-in-cheek online hunt in China for other potential violators, they address a broader and particularly vexing problem for stodgy Chinese officialdom: keeping up with China's exuberant — and sometimes reckless — entrepreneurs.
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The "Apple of the East", as it was dubbed, represented a new sort of Chinese company: market-driven and spunky, not state-led and stodgy; online instead of bricks and mortar; relying on digital technology rather than mechanical engineering.
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A former McKinsey & Company consultant, Skilling helped transform Enron from a stodgy pipeline company into an "asset-light" energy giant, with interests ranging from natural gas trading to power generation, and even a hand in the nascent broadband industry.
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At the other are fans of concept-driven regietheater, German for "director's theater," who welcome radical, provocative reinterpretations that can bear little resemblance to the libretto, and who dismiss traditional stagings as stodgy re-enactments that lack dramatic vitality.
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Games that clobber you with heavy social commentary needn't be so stodgy: witness Papers, Please, which embraces an '80s-era graphical aesthetic to relate the challenges of handling an immigration office at the tail end of the Cold War.
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It is equally conceivable that neighborhood groups in stodgy places will demand that people limit their sidewalk smoking to liquid pot and odorless vape pens, or if they cannot afford them, the "doob tubes" popular among high school students.
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Not only is this a remarkable contrast with his father-in-law, President Donald J. Trump (he's tweeted almost 38,000 times), it's a tad shocking for someone who wants to help the stodgy government update its practices with technology.
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In sum, although Trump is still putting together his foreign policy, he already has the pieces to create a more coherent and possibly more successful policy toward North Korea than the stodgy U.S. elite, who have sniffed at him.
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"If you are a four-person graphic design company, your options are usually substandard Class B office space with an old-school stodgy landlord that just doesn't provide a lot of services for you and your employees," he said.
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It didn't help that first-generation electrified vehicles were slow and stodgy and generally not much fun to drive, often taking more than 123 seconds to go from 212 to 22 miles per hour, noted Joe Phillippi, head of AutoTrends Consulting.
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"I think they've created the image that they've translated the Silicon Valley culture to a very stodgy and conservative space sector," John Logsdon, professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, told Mashable in an interview.
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As played, though, there's scant subtlety in the juxtaposition of those scenes, or in the movie's most relevant plot: King leading a revolt by female players against the stodgy tennis establishment, personified by Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman), over unequal pay.
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Baseball's whitewashed and soulless corporate culture demands sacrifice, so big-time numbers, like his 3.4 WAR, ranking him in the top 10 among National League position players, are the price to pay for the begrudging acceptance of baseball's stodgy gatekeepers.
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He rarely makes forceful comments at European Union summit meetings, but his eye for style, and the fact that he is openly gay and married to his partner, could help raise the profile of Luxembourg, long considered a stodgy tax haven.
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His views on transparency and engagement naturally seem to conflict with the N.F.L., which he called "stodgy and out of touch" in its handling of a recent case of violence against a woman by Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt.
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The Joint List's gains lie partly with the appeal of its leader, Ayman Odeh, a charismatic lawyer whose eloquence and approachability make him a marked contrast with the stodgy autocrats in the West Bank and the radical Islamists in Gaza.
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Billing itself as a modern, progressive league of the future, MLS has slowly chipped away at the stereotypical notion of the stodgy pro sports boardroom in its first 25 years, recently adding its first female majority-owned team to its ranks.
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Although they had been able to hang with the more stodgy Pacers, on Thursday the Knicks demonstrated again how they have struggled to contain the spread offenses that pepper the N.B.A. It was Lin, their old teammate, who helped undo them.
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That realm belongs to the Franco-Chinese food writer Mimi Thorisson, whose blog and cookbooks — lavishly photographed by her Icelandic husband, Oddur — have transformed the image of Médoc from the stodgy preserve of pretentious chateaus into something like a peasant paradise.
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Stodgy, venerable and just plain old (and white and male), the stalwarts of Sand Hill Road (the epitome of a suburban hell street complete with a full-service gas station) struggled to adapt their boring Excel number crunching thinking to this new world.
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Thanks to the American firm's tie up with Chinese dumpling maker Wu Fang Zhai, you can now buy Captain America, Ironman, Thor and Black Widow-themed rice dumplings for the festival, where the stodgy treats are an integral part of the celebrations.
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An estimated 40 battery-electric vehicles are on display at this week's New York International Auto Show, and contrary to their popular image as slow and stodgy, many of them put an emphasis on performance, including the new Qiantu K50 by Mullen.
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery has been around since 1986, but you might not know that, given that it has been sequestered inside some stodgy wood-paneled rooms on the eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall on Columbia University's Morningside campus.
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His team of 110 New York City-based employees are reimagining what a luxury car experience means, using the physical distance from GM's Detroit headquarters to fashion the brand more like a startup than a stodgy, century-old fixture of the Motor City.
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But they had a slightly more fantasy-style flavor, with unlimited numbers of Jedi (before they became the stodgy, no-fun order of bureaucratic monks seen in the prequels) and their Dark Side opponents the Sith, an order founded by a rogue Jedi.
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Instead, this slack sketch of an opera, introduced last year by Opera Philadelphia and brought to the Apollo by that enterprising company, offered wanly jazz-flavored music, by Daniel Schnyder; a confusing libretto, by Bridgette A. Wimberly; and stodgy direction, by Ron Daniels.
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In its early days, before it was considered a stodgy place for little old ladies, it was radical: a safe, affordable space for women to socialize on their own, in an era when women without male escorts were not welcome in restaurants.
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Cottage cheese fell out of favor, and now spends its days hanging out in stodgy pint containers near the sour cream, while yogurt sprawls out across acres of the dairy case, dressed up in cute little tubes, flip tops and French glass jars.
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He shook up the stodgy Salzburg Festival when he took over its leadership in the early 1990s, and after the premiere of "Lonh," at Salzburg in 1996, he proposed to Ms. Saariaho the idea of writing the opera that became "L'Amour de Loin."
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The two surgeons — who portray themselves as pioneers defying a stodgy medical establishment but are considered reckless renegades by many peers — say the head donor will be someone with a degenerative disease, whose body is wasting away while his or her mind remains active.
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Instead of taking Bill Cosby's "pound cake speech" approach, viewed as a factually-flawed and stodgy slander of Black American youth, Jones seems to adhere to the same school of thought as artists like Erykah Badu, who has forged close, empathetic bonds with younger musicians.
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It stemmed from the fact that end users were getting incredible user experiences on their tablets and smart phones, but when they came to work they were being forced to use stodgy old tools that lacked even basic design sense, never mind user centricity.
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It could be an unethical or unhealthy supply chain (something Everlane has exploited well), stodgy brand imagery associating incumbents with older consumers or delivering a similar but cooler product for a cheaper price than the gross-margin laden incumbent (see Dollar Shave versus Gillette).
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The chance to work with Mr Macron and others to shore up Europe's currency union, ideally before the next crisis, was always—as Kaffeeklatsch has long argued—the best case for the parties in question to hold their noses and form another stodgy grand coalition.
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Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat in his third term, has criticized the agency, complaining of its stodgy bureaucracy and saying he wants to "blow up the M.T.A." The idea of calling off the fare increase — something Mr. Cuomo has supported for months — sounds good in theory.
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There had been an uncomfortable irony in that Bulu, who loved adventure, had spent most of her life in the same stodgy city, while Tulu, an inveterate homebody, fussy about mattresses and food, had been dragged across the globe by my travel-obsessed father.
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While primarily differentiated from stodgy HCIT by the average age of its practitioners, digital health has brought two important developments to the industry: a pervasive optimism that health care services problems could be solved with better technology and a keen proficiency at venture capital fundraising.
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Given the current trend of blowing out walls to open up spaces, flooding them with light using plate-glass windows and integrating contemporary art or furniture for fear of seeming stodgy, the studio's work is radical in its respect and reverence for the past.
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It's beaten out of players, if not by the morals and standards of the NHL then by joyless, stodgy media types that appear to revel in parroting the cult-like beliefs of players they wish they could be or wish were their real-life friends.
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Given its North American preview at an off-site event, the electric "hypercar" uses a 1,900 horsepower drivetrain developed by Croatian battery-car start-up Rimac and can hit 186 mph faster than an F16 fighter jet, shattering old perceptions of electric vehicles as slow and stodgy.
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Despite its somewhat stodgy reputation, Nintendo is a frequently forward-thinking company, and sometimes its inventive ideas lead to big success, as with the Wii and DS. Other times, as with the long-struggling Wii U and its tablet-like controller, those ideas don't find much traction.
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Part of the explanation is that the fashion among investors has shifted away from giant but stodgy firms intent on raising their margins through cost-cutting, towards smaller, loss-making ones with fast revenue growth—hence the current boom in initial public offerings by tech firms.
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Maybe it's because the art form is so new, or maybe it's because the film industry is still dominated by stodgy white guys who reached maturity before hip-hop's 1990s golden age, but we have yet to see the rap version of, say, Walk the Line.
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On DVD The most self-consciously modernist French movie of 21888, lovingly restored on a new Flicker Alley Blu-ray, Marcel L'Herbier's "L'Inhumaine" ("The Inhuman Woman") is in some ways also the most old-fashioned — a super-stylized amalgam of mad science, stodgy acting and elaborate sets.
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Ms. Nevins, 80, helped change the image of documentaries from stodgy to provocative during her reign at HBO, delivering the Oscar-winning "Citizenfour," the ribald "Taxicab Confessions" and the incendiary "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" — along with roughly 1,500 other films and series.
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"The insurance industry is viewed by most as a bit stodgy, stiff, inaccessible and it affects your ability to distribute life insurance because people are so fearful," Botha told CNBC, adding that celebrity backing helps to "break down" the barriers and fears involved in buying insurance.
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Lively writes mainly about the English middle class, and for a while, anyway — when much of the energy in British fiction was coming from writers born outside of England like Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey and Kazuo Ishiguro — this made her seem stodgy and old-fashioned to some.
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" Where Mr. Larsson's series was propelled by violence, sex and its charismatic heroine, Lisbeth Salander, "Six Four" features a stodgy protagonist who is called a "gargoyle" by the press and is haunted by the fact that his daughter ran away because she "despised the face she inherited.
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From his previous New York visits with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, I, like many others, thought of Mr. Masur as a somewhat stodgy, provincial Central European, but from his first performances as music director, he electrified the Philharmonic, which fared spectacularly well through much of his tenure.
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Or, if like me in a different play experience, you try to listen but find yourself still too stodgy, too unwilling to break from the modes of knowledge from The Hub, then you might find yourself outside the village again with your AI spiraling in a failure loop.
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Polarization was even reflected in a battle royale among movie reviewers: Four members of the New York Film Critics Circle threatened to resign after the period piece "The Lion in Winter," a stodgy slice of Oscar-bait, edged out John Cassavetes's raw, ultracontemporary "Faces" for the year's best movie.
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Instead, Nebia is a bet that non-software companies can combine product design techniques borrowed from some of the Valley's most iconic firms with the marketing and online sales practices used by other tech-adjacent companies to sell products in stodgy sectors like mattresses, suitcases and now, plumbing fixtures.
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The baby shower—that often stodgy affair featuring room-temperature cuisine followed by a lengthy gift-opening session during which the mom-to-be oohs and aahs over all the things she forced the guests to buy her—is getting a makeover by an unexpected force: the bro.
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Even when Saira tells him about her constant nightmares and the fact that she is unable to sleep at night, he has a patronising line about how her life is interesting and that she has the tragedy of her parents' death while he leads a stodgy, boring life as a banker!
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In the world of startups, that evolution has been spearheaded by the likes of WeWork and Airbnb, which have respectively turned the concept of leasing or buying an office, or renting a stodgy and soulless hotel room, on its head, providing more interesting and way more flexible approaches to both.
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She's also let her show become stodgy and expected, and after a network executive tells Newbury that she's getting kicked off the air at the end of the season, she decides to reinvent her comedy in a bid to keep her job — with, of course, a lot of help from Molly.
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I first fell in love with Austria's gloriously stodgy cuisine when I was 19 and au-pairing for a summer just outside Vienna, and then again during a year abroad in Bavaria (where many of the dishes are on offer), when I popped back over the boarder and was truly smitten.
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Supporters are crying out for a remedy to the tedium of Hodgson's tenure and, accordingly, they have been presented with a choice between two stodgy former centre-backs, one of whom currently manages Hull City and the other of whom was cast off by West Ham for being too unimaginative.
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Amid this color burst, there were floral patterns from a Chinese line, a pair inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog and a shoe featuring a cartoon version of Rosa Parks on its heel — as if we needed more proof that the N.B.A. is much more fun than its stodgy pro counterparts.
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The powwow graduation in May was one example of how universities across Canada are "indigenizing" — a new, elastic term that means everything from drawing more aboriginal students and faculty members onto campuses built largely for white settlers, to infusing those stodgy Western institutions with aboriginal belief systems and traditional knowledge.
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For other multi-camera sitcoms without that throwback vibe, like The Ranch — which takes great pride in its Netflix-derived ability to swear and show off Ashton Kutcher's butt — the way forward is to take a form that seems stodgy and blend it with the TV innovations of the past 20 years.
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But comics like Chris Rock, Jon Stewart and Seth MacFarlane are an awkward fit with the demands of an awards show and an organizing body -- the academy -- which must serve lots of fairly stodgy constituencies, including ABC and its advertisers, while operating under the microscopic scrutiny of the year's biggest awards stage.
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Contradicting one of Wilde's silvered bon mots — "Nothing succeeds like excess" — this somewhat claustrophobic and stodgy show nevertheless provides a seductive education in the Decadent movement, as conveyed through the sensitivities of Wilde's bifurcated homosexual experience, by copiously displaying manuscripts, photographs, paintings, and personal effects that marked the recalcitrant dandy's life and work.
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I wore this professional ensemble every day while I interned at a small nonprofit in the stodgy Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC. I spent my days there assisting boss women who hobnobbed with politicians as they wore patterned jackets with shoulder pads and matching pants that just brushed the top of their heels.
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Maybe you need help fine-tuning your message, and it's always good to a have a diverse set of voices, God knows that I'd rather have 19-year-olds running the NFL than the old stodgy guys who run it now, but there is literally one thing any kind of consumer cares about: the product.
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" "I think it's basically a repricing of the stock away from a sexy tech stock to, essentially, a stodgy, dodgy, blue-chip-with-a-dividend stock, simply because the growth story in Apple has really petered out," Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX strategy at BK Asset Management, said Friday on CNBC's "Trading Nation.
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Like her older sister did, Ms. Sánchez stands out in the stodgy corridors of the Capitol for her edgy style — she dyed the tips of her bobbed brown hair a hot pink last year, and once skirted House rules to paint the walls of her office bright orange — and her irreverent sense of humor.
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"Topper," seen on CBS from 19513 to 1955, was based on the 1937 film of the same name starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as a young couple, George and Marion Kerby, who die in an accident and come back to haunt their old house, now occupied by a stodgy banker, just for fun.
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Away co-founders (from left): Steph Korey and Jen Rubio Away co-founders (from left): Steph Korey and Jen Rubio By applying lean startup methodology and the direct-to-consumer strategy Rubio and co-founder Steph Korey learned as some of the first 15 employees at Warby Parker, Away is shaking up the stodgy luggage market.
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"The era of moving fast and breaking everything is coming to a close," said R. David Edelman, an adviser in the Obama administration and the director of the project on technology, policy and national security at M.I.T. In Japan, artificial intelligence is being seized as a lever to spur dynamism in its stodgy, hierarchical corporate culture.
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At some point in the 1950s, Rodgers and Hammerstein transformed from a pair of hardworking men in the theater into An Enterprise, and by the time I was growing up in the '70s, that enterprise was an established brand, reliably stodgy and comforting and firmly entrenched in Eisenhower-era values and, for me, not all that interesting.
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A year later, the stodgy French luggage house was given a jolt of energy — and, yes, cred — when its creative director, Marc Jacobs, persuaded his corporate masters to let him begin handing off the precious logo to a series of creatives like the designer Stephen Sprouse and, later, the artist Takashi Murakami to mess up with graffiti or cartoons.
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" In an email, MoMA's senior curator of architecture and design, Paola Antonelli, called Mr. Day a "trailblazer" who "showed even the guardians of the original brands the power of creative appropriation, the new life that an authentically 'illicit' use could inject into a stale logo, as well as the commercial potential of a stodgy monogram's walk on the hip-hop side.
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For generations a signifier of upwardly mobile gentility and often paired with the company's devoutly traditional china settings depicting English country life, jasperware now seems irredeemably stodgy-sweet, its appeal to all but the most rigorous collector diminished by its ubiquity: Go to the mall, and you too can pick up a brand-new picture frame decorated with a bas-relief Cupid.
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An Associated Press article from 1970 headlined "Stodgy Old Film Oscar To Undergo a Facelift" (take a moment and enjoy that one), describes how the Academy audited its ranks in May of that year (to be fair, the same year Midnight Cowboy won its Best Picture trophy) and reduced its membership from 3,172 to 2,802 members — with an additional 109 members prevented from voting for nominations altogether.
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The corporation of Thomas Edison and the light bulb has focused much of its recent advertising on shedding the public perception of it as a stodgy, staid institution — a dilemma the company self-deprecatingly poked fun at in a recent ad campaign in which a new GE employee struggled to explain why his job was more interesting than his bemused friends and family believed.
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So bringing like all of this very attractive very like funky mainstream looking feminist aesthetics, but also theory, to young people is like a really useful method to kind of get them to see it not as this like stodgy old man thing but as like this attractive fun young like pro-woman feminist new way of thinking like, not your not your mom's pro-life movement type thing.
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Yet two childhood friends in New York have seemingly struck on a fresh idea: taking on the stodgy and often expensive world of cookware, where one's options out of college are usually limited to a few pieces of Calphalon or Farberware or, in the best-case scenario, some Le Creuset, the premium French cookware manufacturer founded back in 1925 and known for its vibrant colors, including Marseille, Cerise, and Soleil.
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A sizable dollop of the text, truth be told, is given over to fin de siècle score-settling, mostly at the expense of critics and academicians, but it is nonetheless a surprise to encounter the Wild One's sentimental defense of stodgy old Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, or his praise of Camille Pissarro as "a virgin who had many children but remained a virgin despite the seductions of money and power," or his two-line epigrammatic (if not gnomic) endorsement of Paul Cézanne: Apples, Rembrandt?
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