stodgy

• “You can find great opportunities in stodgy old-fashioned blue-chip stocks.”

  How should you invest in a bad economy? Stocks? Bonds?

• “But now, fully entrenched in stodgy-hearted adulthood, I'm more inclined toward The Power of More-Than-One, especially when the goal is to make a significant difference.”

  Sob Story

• “It is a known quantity, even if it was known as a stodgy company for a while.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Corporate Friends

• “It is by no accident that the British -- whom foreigners delight to call stodgy and slow-witted, -- have produced more high-class poetry than any other nation in the history of the world.”

  The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

• “He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it.”

  Peter and Wendy

• “At all times reverent to more than twenty years of Mario platforming, NSMB Wii never feels tired, repetitive or stodgy, which is something of an achievement unto itself.”

  Home Theater Forum

• “I know I was one, but I suspect that I have grown into the kind of stodgy adult who is going to have a real problem with crackly voices, "fur, where there was no fur before" and any kind of freak-outs that involve violation, destruction of premises or partial nudity.”

  World of Warcraft punishment causes kid to lose his shit, abuse remote control

• “The difference between the good and bad movie trailers of course is whether they act as an enticing, spicy appetiser; or as the kind of stodgy nibbles that spoil your appetite for the main course.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Creating a book trailer

• “For them, Crossfire stands out for its narrative and visual style — clearly linked to Murder, My Sweet, the original Scott-Paxton-Dmytryk noir — which for them sets Crossfire definitely apart from a "stodgy" social problem film like The Best Years of Our Lives (though Gentleman's Agreement is probably the more appropriate comparison) .1”

  Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood

• “I still have my problems with most of Wallis's Paramount filmss, most of which -- even the good ones -- seem kind of stodgy compared to what he was doing at Warners.”

  Wallis-Hazen

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