Example Sentences

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If all of this sounds like a lot of strands to tie together, it is—but unlike in previous seasons, many of these strands really feel ancillary to the gangland drama that stodgily occupies center stage.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2020

Even at its most familiar and stodgily paced, “Uncorked” possesses a terroir all its own.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020

The people of Brabant are sturdy town folk, stodgily dressed like something out of a 16th century Flemish painting.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019

As it moves from episode to episode, the play reminded me of one of those old-school documentaries that featured stodgily dramatized scenes among the talking-head interviews with historians.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2011

Then in passing rapidly over the score afterwards we shall see at a glance the structure of the whole, and how the new thematic matter is either welded into this sea music or stodgily interpolated.

From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by Runciman, John F.