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- Keep your hands inside as the cart clatters stodgily by.
- Yet the movie is guilty of its own rigidity, stodgily adhering to Hollywood formula and loudly preaching instead of teaching by example.
- The 2000GT revolutionized the automotive world's view of Japan, then viewed as a producer of imitative and stodgily practical vehicles.
- Unlike his garrulous and outgoing predecessor, Chris Patten, Tung avoids local reporters, releases virtually no information about his weekly activities and in public rarely departs from stodgily written speeches.
- For most of the series, the Kings have played with the exuberance of children at the park while the Jazz has stodgily plodded upcourt, viewing each possession as a life-altering moment.
- Hurley's book is less than nifty in other respects, however, especially in the way it is written : stodgily enough to make you think this author had pebbles in his word processor.
- TRAVEL-EUROPE-LONDON ( Undated ) _ The Savoy Grill _ English dining at its most stodgily traditional _ has been made over to give it a more modern feel and and new modern menu.
- Those on the qui vive who need to flaunt their with-it-ness in the face of the stodgily au courant have turned to hot, with the extreme of " forwardly fashionable, at the center of attention " expressed as way hot or hot-hot . ( In the nomenclature of the new, forget cool, which is no longer hot.
- Stephen Daisley of STV News wrote that it was " both frustratingly light [ and ] stodgily worthy ", but drew favourable comparisons with the " Scottish Standard ", a weekly pro-independence paper launched in 2005 that ceased publication after just seven issues, suggesting " The National " would succeed because it had more financial backing, and as there was a latent demand for a news sheet supporting independence.
- The New York Times stated in an article that, " The formula combines Tom Clancy-like suspense with touches of romance, high-tech flash and Biblical references . " The Chicago Tribune called it " . . . an exciting, stay-up-late-into-the-night, page turner story . " Publishers Weekly called Left Behind " . . . the most successful Christian Fiction series ever . " A review in the Washington Post called the novels a " stodgily written blend of B-movie science fantasy and horror . " A review from the Biblical Discernment Ministries claims that, " The fictionalizing of Scripture is an egregious offense in and of itself, but the theology presented in the books is intolerable ."