Meanings of stodginess in English

There's a stodginess about afternoon calling that affects even the nicest people.

He looked round the ring of faces, and translated their stodginess as self-consciousness dictated.

In many ways the wider stodginess is enforced.

What is popularly regarded as respectability is oft-times in reality-ifthe truth were known-merely stodginess and stupidity.

But the stodginess of Puel's football has worked against him, even if this was not a bad performance.

But Pro Skater 5 too often sullies that memory with insipid level and mission design, and a stodginess of interaction.

She could see in profile the heavy jaw clamp upward, and more and more that wooden stodginess became terrible to her.

The formerly slippery grille is now as upright and imperious as that of a classic Mercedes-Benz, contributing to a curious stodginess.

This wasn't stodginess as much as pragmatism: that funny way of counting electrons seemed to have little to do with real chemistry.

That's nearly doubling the size of a company that's obsessed with not falling prey to the stodginess of being a big company.

Despite a truly staggering depth of research, Enlightenment remains thankfully free of the academic stodginess which can so often mark works of history.

If she gave the whole village work, was it too far gone in its unspurred stodginess to be roused to carrying it out?

Libin also showed off a new way of presenting Evernote creations to colleagues on a meeting room TV- alaPowerPoint, but without the stodginess.

Royal's ad strategy is just one example of a shift in tactics by Canadian banks, which were once seen as a backwater bastion of stodginess.

His Barça, too, prioritised possession, although the pace of their flurries of passing is a world away from the mannered stodginess of United this season.

There's a stodginess about afternoon calling that affects even the nicest people.