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Перевод: staid
[прилагательное] положительный; степенный; уравновешенный; благоразумный
Тезаурус:
- Mod's other branches had gone flamboyant or hippy or student or young married, but he'd stayed staid.
- The two of them tickling staid Janey, one on each side until she couldn't help laughing, and the seven peas rolled away.
- Its swirling form makes the early stages of the building look positively staid.
- It was precisely this spirit-this agitation against the staid and the genteel - which Leonard had perceived in the guitar-playing of his late youthful instructor, whose demise had the intensity of surreal life.
- Too staid.
- Such destruction could be vicious: the staid senator.
- Equally at home with highbrow or no-brow cinema, Kael is unapologetic about feeding a sweet tooth for vulgarity which can seem incongruous in the New Yorker 's staid pages.
- Dear old staid, conservative, non-violent Britain.
- In the United States even those most staid of institutions, the public utilities, offer a cash discount to those customers who pay for their water, electricity or gas on time.
- Square-cut and staid to behold, it packs a potent punch quite at odds with its looks.
- There is no need to be intimidated by the formality of a staid institution's catalogue, or to neglect popular magazines; as for writing in various academic disciplines, there ought to be no barrier to learning about an interesting topic.
- With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid, over-25s, the development in the ad industry of "psychogeographics" (the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics - i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans), and the construction of bands in the studio, pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the "left".
- Callaghan himself followed a staid and dignified, but uncharismatic, course.
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