And are the polls proving right, as stagnant as they have been, or are we in for a shock?
Indeed, why else would an ambitious 30-year-old take over an institution that had become as stagnant as Dia?
The sense of déjà vu was hunkering over Shea Stadium last night, nearly as stagnant as the humid air.
With its capacity to innovate and reinvent itself, and with its faith in progress, America need never become as stagnant as Rome.
He starts with a character from his previous work Love and Longing in Bombay, Inspector Sartaj Singh, a middle-aged divorcee whose career is as stagnant as his love life.
VC is a weird business in which every trend seems to constantly change, but the people running the venture firms seem to be as stagnant as the Soviet politburo.
If I had not left, I would be as stagnant as that massive relic of the past.
This view of the second chamber as stagnant remains.
They study taboo subjects such as stagnant middle class incomes and its impact on the economy.
Dean Baker is upset at a story that describes Argentina's economy as "stagnant".
And without competition, games fall behind the times as stagnant old guards refuse to change.
