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- The inn itself has its own restaurant, decent food and starchily soft-spoken service.
- The average Frenchman, he declared starchily, produces one-third the emissions of the average American.
- IBM is clearly sartorially ahead of most of corporate America, which still prefers its employees starchily turned out in regulation gear during office hours.
- Davidson is happily married to Vincent Van Patten, a former starchily and professional tennis player who is the son of Hollywood legend, Dick Van Patten.
- Still, Mrs . Clinton was notably slow in expressing indignation and, when she did, complained starchily that the Palestinians had promised they wouldn't do that anymore.
- Russert starchily replied : " We don't talk about whether leaks come from the White House, from Ken Starr, from the State Department, from the Pentagon.
- Typically, the songs flickered between thrashing two-beat rhythms and a starchily funky four, with a flowing, histrionic high-note guitar solo nailed somewhere in the middle.
- Even as Mohammed Salimi, a white-turbaned cleric, starchily admonishes Nouri to show proper respect, millions of Iranians are judging the court itself, through the blanket press coverage Iranian newspapers are giving the trial.
- Whether playing the starchily repressed, secretly passionate Hesione in that new show or Norma Desmond in " Sunset Boulevard " _ or singing in a concert hall or a nightclub _ she is, at 50, a reigning diva of the musical theater.
- These include a large panoramic wash from 1831 looking north from West Point by one A . Van Zandt that is notable for its delicate textures and muted, almost Chinese atmosphere; a dramatic folk art painting of a stormy night on the Hudson, in which waves, clouds and sails all tilt starchily to the right, fighting the wind, and four decorative panels made from 1830 to 1840 in which riverside scenes, crisply stenciled in light paint on dark, have the hallucinatory ghostliness of afterimages.
- Jeannette Catsoulis of " The New York Times " focused criticism on the " limp hero " and " lifeless plot ", arguing that the positive qualities of the film did not " excuse characters that are little more than props for embarrassing fashion or delivery systems for dated slang . " Ann Hornaday at " The Washington Post " argued that " its relatively uninvolving story, starchily directed by Tully and given little zing by an uneven cast, makes'Ping Pong Summer'" an " okay-not-great " film.