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Example sentences for: staid

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Jerusalem has a staid reputation, but take a stroll in the New City in the area around Ben Yehuda Street and Yoel Salomon Street and you’ll find lots going on most evenings, including a handful of discos, several music bars and “pubs,” and narrow streets congested with tables and thronging with locals and tourists.
Just as the staid, old British English was rejuvenated after the First World Was by the injection of American, no-nonsense grittiness, so modern American English is being saved; this time by the charge of honest and potent street-talk into the flim-flam and flummery of the body linguistic.
But Bill Haley and Elvis painted Broadway into a corner it never quite got out of: Musicals stood aloof from rock and became, by definition, staid, conservative, middle-aged--something your parents go see on their wedding anniversary.
And each year at festival time, Edinburgh willingly gives its streets over to stilt walkers, automatons, satirists, and barbershop quartets along with 500,000 visitors — belying its reputation for being sober and staid.
She was hired because she's a managerial whiz who helped transform Lucent from a staid spin-off of AT&T into a prototypical bleeding-edge company.