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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.
(One of the truly ludicrous things about Brian Arthur's fantasy about how stodgy economists refused to listen to his radical ideas is that it is set in an era that everyone knows was in fact marked by a manic neophilia, a worship of the wild and crazy.)
2) It's the handiwork of stodgy white males.
These little contradictions aside, one wonders why stodgy Caucasian Republicans are playing the victimology card at all.
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