Contoh stodgy

• Over-dramatic dialogues, deliberately forced songs and inflated action sequences make it quite a predictable and stodgy fare.

• What should have been a fun lark of a story seems almost stodgy, like your grandmother's idea of a good time.

• The station had often been criticized as a dinosaur and the announcing style was viewed as stodgy.

• The paper suffered many teething problems, coming under fire for being too serious and stodgy.

• On the show, he ran a respectful, serene courtroom and was known for his stodgy, easygoing manner.

• To him the old company was worthy but dowdy and stodgy.

• Channel 4 calls it a stodgy, sentimental brew and a well-meaning film that doesn't really amount to much in the long run.

• She is an imaginary woman, full of life and gaiety, who sees him not as a stodgy old businessman but as a gallant youth.

• Who says symphony orchestras have to be stodgy?

• At that age one does not see the hook sticking out of the rather stodgy bait.

• His candor is charming; his freedom from the stodgy, refreshing.

• With such a stodgy and foreboding appearance, it is hard for us to imagine that exciting events might transpire within those solemn chambers.

• By modern standards, diets were still stodgy, with high consumption of bread and potatoes, and low consumption of meat, milk products and fruits and vegetables.

• Furthermore, dogmatic formulas have not only been conducive to an unattractive, stodgy style, but have impeded the party's ability to grasp and assimilate popular culture.

• I still think that the proof of this stodgy pudding will be in the eating.