| Not in the mood for stodginess, I'd opted for the Akhini Chicken, a mild dish with pineapple, almonds and sultanas. |
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| With growth and stability has come stodginess, predictability and excessive caution. |
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| But I wonder if a certain sort of chromosomal stodginess can ever really be completely leached out of the Michelin guide and the system. |
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| They also sensed that the music promised, or symbolised, a release from the nineteenth-century bourgeois stodginess which had somehow culminated in the war. |
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| When they first opened, curry houses were catering to people who were used to eating heavy food with all its gravy, cream and stodginess. |
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| Despite the universities' undeserved reputations for stodginess, the truth is that their teaching is on the forefront of good practice. |
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| But there's a certain stodginess to the crab cake — perhaps the red-pepper aioli should be traded in for a note of citrus? |
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| Rising prices in higher-value properties, coupled with higher volumes in lower-priced ones, may be disguising stodginess in the middle of the market. There are other caveats about the strength of a recovery. |
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| The financial system, once criticised for stodginess, is solid. |
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| The bun was light, aromatic and lacked the stodginess generally associated with doughy buns. |
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| Gary Ballance's presence ensures there is still the stodginess even the most exciting test sides need to glue everything together. |
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| Drenched in a thick basil pesto sauce, the ravioli with potatoes was cooked perfectly and did not fall prey to stodginess. |
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| That combination is so far beyond unhip as to propel the WIN March into its own dimension of occult stodginess. |
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| This shows a greater degree of stodginess from the Indian side, but also leaves a crack in the door for the Pakistani side to sqeeze in the issues of Kashmir and Balochistan. |
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| If anything though, England's stodginess at Twickenham merely brought into sharper focus how much better than them Wales are, and today they need to serve another reminder. |
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| Brancy's duet with Papagena towards the end was a bright spot, and their cute choreography was charming and a refreshing respite from the stodginess of the main action. |
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