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Example sentences for: stodgy

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And a story argues that bustling, open-minded Shanghai, rather than stodgy, authoritarian Beijing, is the future of China.
Have the changes she has wrought enlivened a stodgy magazine or vulgarized a dignified one--or both?
As the 25-year-old editor of the Tatler , Brown transformed a stodgy British society magazine into a sassy, nasty, attention-getting one.
They regard the adaptation, which stars Seinfeld shlub Jason Alexander, as a "stodgy affair" (Elliott Stein, the Village Voice ). And the hypercampy characters feel like relics of an era when gay men were routinely lampooned--"more The
The cover story credits the economic boom to Alan Greenspan, America's capitalists, and Michael Milken (his junk bonds enabled undercapitalized but bold firms to take over and streamline stodgy companies).