The wild expression joined with the staid pose is disconcerting.
None of these speakers is unambiguously projecting a staid home environment where parents might be ensuring that they do their homework.
Sometimes they'd be quite staid, but even at their most staid there would still be riots of laughter.
It made the usual way of presenting piano recitals look very staid and static.
Meanwhile, in absolute terms, the output of novel and staid academic subsidiaries continued to search for markets.
Most of the figures are in staid erect positions without any indication of activity or movement.
The idea contributed to that long-standing view of the period as stable, staid, and generally uninteresting.
The staid habits of the older generation, their inability to change with the times, were much criticised.
