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The company hasn't been able to shake off its image as stodgy and old-fashioned.
He was criticized for being boring, strait-laced and narrow-minded.
He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic antique.
Dell is bound and determined to show that it can be a bigger player in the consumer market.The company also is trying to shake its reputation for stodgy design.
For the royal weddings of the past, the celebratory crockery and linen in shops was starchy and deferential.
Mr Harper, who normally cuts a stiff, cold figure, was, by his standards, relaxed and smiling in his moment of triumph.
He thought I was a square when I said I loved the truth.
The birdbath that was to be her resting place was highlighted with a circular flagstone path.
Mr Prescott's punch reminded voters that he was irascible and unreconstructed.
He's a hard man, nothing could hold him back to come to the club in time.
If you don't, you become staid, and your customers get tired.
I want to keep her happy, though, and I feel a prude -and I know she gets disappointed.
If Grandfather were here, she thought, he would say that it was all my governess's fault for raising me to be so prim and proper!
A further rise in unemployment may come from smaller companies squeezed between tough Labour laws and a credit drought.
Georgia said: 'we are a very close family and we're quite eccentric so it wasn't a big deal.
And that scares people. You wouldn't expect that from a sport like figure skating, but it's a very old-school sport, with lots of old people involved.
Most of all, the researchers would like to understand why humpback whales, of all species, resemble humans in their love for ever-changing yet conformist fashion.
Gradually it acquired its own editorial voice, and with it a somewhat stodgy image.
"It's old fashioned that the Metro people thought that way", he added.
Many people agree: Yes, this old-fashioned I.
The fusty old establishment refused to recognize the demand for popular music.
The magazine is very middle-class.
You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper.
We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
The stuffy '50s gave way to the swinging '60s.