Boring, stodgy natural gas companies were one major economic player ignored in the tech boom. |
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It is said with truth that Australia assumed the stodgy aspects of nineteenth century British life. |
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Anyone holding the view that history is by definition boring and stodgy stuff will be heartened and intrigued by this account. |
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Conversely, great skiing can't compensate for stodgy service or uninspiring interiors. |
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Otherwise, it's a great track that, even despite the film's 3-hour running time, never becomes stodgy or boring. |
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In the 1930s and in the 1960s, all sorts of maladroit, stodgy unions did quite well. |
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Most of my students used informal, asymmetrical balance, as formal balance can seem stodgy and dull. |
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Mastering Data Modeling is an innovative book that treats with humor a subject that is so often stodgy and dull. |
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Like, we still go out and get drunk or sometimes stoned or high and go to cool places until closing, and not get all stodgy and coupley. |
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The lumbering gait of his stodgy and dated modal writing needs visuals to gee it up. |
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The drama can feel a little stodgy but it comes alive in the aerial sequences, with all their gee-whiz, jet-age wonder. |
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On one of my first visits, I lingered for an hour or so in the lounge with a group of more or less stodgy midtown friends. |
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It is possible to blow huge amounts of money on car modifications, ruining your automobile and ending up with a fuel drinking stodgy bone shaker. |
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Semolina is therefore used in making gnocchi and croquettes, both of which can otherwise be heavy and stodgy. |
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No wonder her work is cutting through the stale, stodgy world of Scottish desserts like a red hot knife through a wodge of sticky toffee pudding. |
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I would suggest replacing the breadcrumbs with rice or couscous, which are less stodgy, and again varies the grain away from bread. |
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Expecting some stodgy Slavic comfort food, I was surprised to get deep-fried fish goujons with sweet and sour sauce. |
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They don't organise like a communist party and their world view is radically different from that of the stodgy dogmatists of the past. |
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Far too many words for comfort, quite indiscriminately absorbed, and now forming a stodgy, indigestible mass in my short-term memory. |
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Any criticisms of England's boring and stodgy play were crushed as the team surged forward, sending The Walkabout crowd into a screaming frenzy. |
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Their salted and smoked meat was useful to give savour to otherwise stodgy dishes, and was especially important for the poor. |
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If you fancy a pudding, make sure it's not something stodgy that could leave you sluggish and immobile. |
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Lunch will not be a bowl of additive-laden, over-salty canned soup or a stodgy sandwich thickly smeared with butter. |
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Samsung has transformed itself from a stodgy Asian original-equipment manufacturer into one of the hottest brands in the world. |
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Ironically the only covers which seem to fall flat here are the film tie-in editions which look stodgy next to the originally designed covers. |
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Right now, compared with everything else that's happening on the Web, AOL is boring, stodgy, and stuck in the mud. |
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Restaurants so often let themselves down at the last by serving unimaginative or downright stodgy desserts. |
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Yorkshire food is traditionally seen as staid and stodgy, but can be modern and exciting. |
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Lumpy custard, stodgy stew and cold mashed potato used to be stock jokes in British playgrounds about old-style school dinners. |
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The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics. |
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Much of that is down to Paul and his stodgy mate in the centre-back position, captain Fortune Chukwudi. |
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Others look out of place at a competition, like the stodgy 1994 Buick Regal station wagon retrofitted to run on a mix of hydrogen and corn alcohol, or ethanol. |
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The national development bank, BNDES, has transformed from a stodgy local lender into a chooser of national champions. |
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The stodgy five-and-dime store of the past has been replaced by the wacky 99-cent store of the present. |
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He gradually shaped Reliance into a petrochemicals megalith, despite a stodgy economy and crippling government regulations and bureaucracy. |
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It was not by choice that the 14-year-old archduchess was sent away from Vienna to marry Louis XV's stodgy grandson. |
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He put forward a plan to cut costs and transform Matsui from a stodgy, old-fashioned stockbroking firm into a discount stockbroker. |
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It was thick without being stodgy, yet thin without being runny. |
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The LSE has been a symbol of stodgy traditionalism and male chauvinism. |
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The TV critics largely sided with Conan, now with TBS, because they deem Leno to be a bland and stodgy comic. |
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But, though any fried rice ball is a welcome fried rice ball as far as I'm concerned, mine can tend towards the bland and stodgy. |
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Amazing Grace's strong performances sometimes lift its plodding pace, but it's a stodgy and old-fashioned historical drama. |
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Once again, stodgy defenders of the integrity of Versailles are up in arms. |
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The government's normally stodgy official gazette listed the villains by their nicknames: Monkey, Beardy, Taliban and so on. |
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There is no room on these maps for stodgy particularity: draw the picture in sweeping strokes. |
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Scores of new e-commerce ventures are starting up and shaking up what many consider to be a stodgy national business culture. |
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Not a Patria to be extolled in stodgy effusions, but to be understood and felt as the executrix of a great destiny. |
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General Purpose's music mixes all of these influences, without resulting in anything stodgy. |
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Essentially, the long-entrenched habit of stodgy CAD Frameworks burdens the Microelectronics Industry with an excess of EDA conservatism? |
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Deliver us all from filmmaking as lumbering and blinkered as this, a purported homage to female wisdom and bounteousness that is instead stodgy and convictionless. |
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Only the sizzling Mongolian lamb hotpot, mayo-slaughtered wasabi prawns, the stodgy dumplings and leaden-battered soft-shell crab were truly terrible. |
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It is published just after Christmas, to boot, when we have all each eaten so much stodgy food that we require four attempts to get up from the sofa. |
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We might have returned to our un-distinguished pre-war cuisine, or another writer might have rescued us from overcooked cabbage and stodgy puddings. |
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And the desserts are an oddly dismal lot, from an apple pie in which the fruit is stiff, the crust sodden, to a stodgy strawberry shortcake on hard, stale biscuits. |
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At this time of year, around when the clocks go back, I start to feel really tired and depressed, and I find myself binging on stodgy foods and then I put on pounds. |
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There's something about the stodgy, unimaginative tunes and sweet-as-a-bucket-of-syrup lyrics that somehow feel like being served an enormous hot breakfast. |
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I know that the kids lap up every last bit of detail, and they are the prime readership after all, but for me it's a rather stodgy and tedious read. |
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But relative next to our toned and styled first lady, it was stodgy and frumpy. |
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O'Brien's stodgy, arrhythmic prose never brings its subject to life. |
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It's been a stodgy, indigestible day, rather like a failed suet pastry. |
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Just as we are about to morph permanently into stodgy old stinkpots, we stumble across one of those favorite things. |
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Non-members will have little interest in interacting with a body whose legitimacy is compromised by its stodgy refusal to reflect changing global dynamics. |
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In these days, museums are not looked upon as stodgy dull centres. |
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He thought that was a very stodgy conception. |
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Starch within bread can make you feel a little sleepy after eating it, so by just having a slice of light focaccia, as opposed to two heavier slices of stodgy bread, you should feel satisfied, but not too sluggish. |
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But these guys are being paid double what their predecessors were making in the 1980s, which was not exactly a period known for its stodgy egalitarianism. |
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He is largely viewed as an ill-tempered, stodgy government bureaucrat. |
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The author has taken great pains to bring this remarkable healing tool to the public in a practical way and has purposely avoided the somewhat stodgy, hard to understand image of an official text book. |
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It left me tired, really achy, and with a hankering for hot buttery toast and other stodgy foods. |
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Think of the bearded Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic, grinning at his incessant photo-calls, or the foul-mouthed Michael O'Leary of Ryanair cocking a snook at stodgy old British Airways. |
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Finally, 14 years of food rationing lasting until 1954 ruined the British taste so that bland and stodgy food could become legendary throughout the world. |
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If the food is too stodgy, too 'solid,' it cannot enter the villi. |
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I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new. |
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Q Can you suggest a potato salad recipe that won't be stodgy? |
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