Gone are the days when dining in Prague meant gawping balefully at plates of stodgy dumplings.
On a Friday night, the St Regis' stodgy Astor Court restaurant was nearly empty.
They, err, took their time solving the problem, as stodgy and conservative institutions tend to do.
The lengthy and complex selection process has sometimes been criticised for producing stodgy and unadventurous shortlists.
The threat is from the stodgy state-run broadcasters, who soak up most of the ad dollars.
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Latin art is still viewed through the lens of stodgy, pre-World War II muralism.
To everyone's surprise the stodgy German media are now consumed with debate over the flat tax.
Others, though, admire him for finding a way to make money from a stodgy industry.
Kids will use e-mail to communicate with their parents, but it's seen as very stodgy.
To the casual observer, the sport is stodgy and easily dismissed as impossible to understand.
Oklahoma City's economic profile is stodgy at best, especially compared with the dynamism of Texas cities.
Over that same period, investors in the supposedly stodgy, mature stockmarkets have seen share prices soar.
The stodgy electric power industry is in need of a lot of shaking up.
Around me, all these stodgy, old IBMers are flipping through iPads, tapping on iPhones and fingering BlackBerrys.
The latest urgent call: Buy the information technology stocks and bail out of the stodgy utility sector.
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In the U.S., Buick likely won't approach those numbers because the stodgy image clings to the brand.
Keep in mind that this was a stodgy, male-oriented company whose leaders had been in manufacturing forever.
Back-packers and coach parties may think the cheap beer makes up for dodgy service and stodgy food.
The writing in Bold Endeavors may be a bit stodgy--but the nation-changing innovative projects he discusses are not.
Mr. Cruyff brought with him the dizzying Dutch passing attack, liberating Spanish soccer from its stodgy, straight-ahead structure.
Some people applaud Chrysler for thinking outside the box, and trying to introduce style into a stodgy segment.
The national development bank, BNDES, has transformed from a stodgy local lender into a chooser of national champions.
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For one thing, there's an argument to be made that FHA's relatively stodgy insurance requirements shouldn't be relaxed.
Pan Wei, of Beijing University, says that even in stodgy state enterprises, the party is losing its grip.
It is a useful feature in poor countries where the diet might otherwise be unbearably bland and stodgy.
There was a time when IBM was synonymous with the image as a stodgy and rigid old-line technology company.
Traditionally, many stodgy investors, such as pension funds, steered clear of such things because they lacked an investment-grade rating.
When he took over at Preussag in 1994, it was best known for its stodgy mining and engineering interests.
As well as offering to pay more, its valuable shares are a more attractive currency than Bell's stodgy paper.
Critics find Mr Fico's cocktail of history and culture stodgy or downright creepy.
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