0 serious and old-fashioned -- stateczny
a staid, middle-aged man
This explains, perhaps, in part, their bizarre costumes, and their long hair, as against the older generations with staid costumes and short hair.
There must be accountability or the matter becomes staid and introverted.
There is much to be said for the more staid era that used to surround us.
This both energised the previously rather staid and undervalued world of television promotions and led to a selective incorporation of techniques and values from the wider world of commercial advertising.
Social movements, just like more staid sorts of social organization, provide people with incentives and resources for action, and wide access to both, in local, national and international policy arenas.
The act of imagining, however, follows such staid and predictable lines that one is forced to ask where the trite ideas are coming from and what is informing them.
Directors of life offices were now as likely to be fly-by-night adventurers as the staid financiers who had dominated the industry in the 1820s.
The staid habits of the older generation, their inability to change with the times, were much criticised.
