(a.) Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.
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Example Sentences:
(1) The trial, originally expected to be staid, has exposed severe dysfunction within Bo's family and detailed the complicated tangle of allegiances and affairs that led to his downfall .
(2) The established format sounds a bit staid until Balding starts discussing it.
(3) Recent politically sensitive cases have been staid and straightforward affairs – last month, former railways minister Liu Zhijun was handed a suspended death sentence for bribery after just three and a half hours in the dock.
(4) That first book, The Path to Power , was greeted as a revelation not only for its insights into the true nature of Johnson but for its transformation of the staid form of political biography.
(5) According to the NetEase report, the rules do not apply to CCTV1, although that may be because its output is already more staid than that of its rivals.
(6) Steve Crawshaw, who turned Bradford and Bingley from a staid building society into a specialist in self-certified mortgages and left the company weeks before it had to be nationalised, has apparently retired to the Yorkshire countryside: his only publicly-recorded activity these days is as the chair of the advisory board of the School of Management at Bradford University, who forwarded him my list of questions, but I heard nothing back.
(7) I'd seen younger, more erratic and more hyped bands (Young Bloods, Fat White Family) earlier in the day and expected something more staid and predictable.
(8) Ryley said: "Whatever you think of Fox News, there is no denying that it has shaken up the sometimes staid world of US TV news by using commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity alongside its core news output."
(9) Why had investment bankers been allowed to over-run a supposedly staid Scottish bank?
(10) Even the usually staid weekly, Die Zeit, headlines its main Greek crisis story with the headline: "Are the Greeks Potty?"
(11) The prostaglandin-E2-concentrations in the treated pregnant animals decreased by half during the first hour of the experiment, whereas they staid fairly constant in the untreated group of animals.
(12) As well as being the first black minister, Gething is seen as part of a new generation of younger politicians who will regenerate the Welsh assembly, which is sometimes criticised for being staid and lacking dynamism.
(13) She points to a pirate outfit in the exhibition worn by Adam Ant (another snake-hips) and links it deftly to the piecrust collar worn by Lady Diana Spencer when she first came to public notice as a sweet and rather staid nursery teacher in 1980.
(14) A Shanghai newspaper learned of her groundbreaking research and "called for an end to the madness" in an editorial comment subsequently republished by the People's Daily – in what would have been an astonishing move for the staid official Communist party newspaper.
(15) These tools are also being used to replace staid development paradigms, by organising and developing African-driven institutions.
(16) But that's not the only problem at the company: sudden reorganizations and changing strategies favored hot copycat products and left its staid legacy businesses orphaned.That, in turn, left Microsoft marooned between a fading past and an uncertain future.
(17) As if to underline the idea that politics in Wales defies the staid norms of Westminster, both front-runners in the Plaid leadership contest are women.
(18) The move was designed to transform its image from staid telecoms company into a 21st-century multimedia business.
(19) Bannon was casual with open-collared shirt, Priebus more staid in suit and tie.
(20) Staid courtyards winced to the sounds of Beggars Banquet, The White Album, Big Pink and Dr John The Night Tripper drifting through leaded windows.
Stoical
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
(n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(2) Just a week ago the Spanish had seemed stoical about one of the most depressing eras in recent economic history.
(3) The authors also discuss the difficulties of giving medication for pain control in Zimbabwe: Health care workers may have misconceptions about addiction, and patient may be too stoical.
(4) It becomes clear that when she went for her initial work capability assessment, she was stoical about her condition, rather than labouring the extent of her problems, and as a result, failed to score sufficient points to be granted ESA.
(5) Some open their envelopes stoically and promptly, betraying little emotion; others crowd together for support.
(6) United 's manager wanted to be stoical about the extraordinary nature of last night's woe, which had his disbelieving opposite number José Mourinho sprinting down the track with his coat flapping after Costinha scored.
(7) And protected behind a privacy screen, four Lib Dem workers stoically continued working away on their campaign, as scores of raucous SNP supporters, their saltires, SNP placards and balloons above their heads, greeted Sturgeon’s arrival.
(8) In old news we’ve all heard before, United will ramp up their efforts to lure Gareth Bale from a Real Madrid purgatory he has stoically shown no obvious desire to abandon, while they are also interested Wolfsburg’s Kevin De Bruyne .
(9) Local journalists reported Gough and Roberts walking stoically through "lashing rain".
(10) Young people of today: too lazy to endure stoically the suffering that becoming a drinker demands.
(11) But society seems fairly stoical about it, to say the least.
(12) When they burn down a building, they’re committing arson, and they’re destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities.” 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Read more Occasionally interrupting himself to apologize to the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who stood stoically beside him throughout the lecture, Obama said the question of Baltimore went beyond one of who was culpable for the death of Gray, or for the street violence that followed.
(13) To this end an examination was made as to the cultural-historical side with the Christian and stoical tradition as well as to the ethnologic-psychological side, especially with the aspect of inferiority and pride taking into consideration the reflection of these problems in the so-called "generation of 1898".
(14) Obama has responded with emotions rarely seen during his stoical administration: anger at “hysterical” politicians back home, sorrow at the thought of sending US troops into another Middle East war he fears would be unwinnable, and petulance in the face of those who question his resolve.
(15) Over on a makeshift stage, Coz Fontenot sits stoically with his violin, singing in that high, lonesome, wonderfully timeless voice.
(16) There was this great scene where a new inmate arrived and was quite stoical, but it turned out she was sharing a cell with this brilliantly dungareed lesbian, who starts copping a feel.
(17) We knew the game should finish to avoid a panic, so we stayed in our seats in the front row, stoically, to maintain a visible presence,” Kanner said.
(18) And so this European indulgence, the casino, gave way to the country’s foremost secular shrine – a place to which the new federation, determinedly nation-building while stoically grieving the loss of a generation of men, looked to honour its 62,000 dead and missing.
(19) He is still talking when I leave the room, and still talking when I turn around for my last glimpse of Malala: she is sitting silently, stoically, being talked at.
(20) Patients with better thermal discriminability had greater pain relief, while those with low pain report criterion, that is, less stoical, demonstrated improved physical activity, and more social and hobby activities.