Sentence examples for conservative affair from inspiring English sources

"Body Music" is, on the whole, a slightly more conservative affair than AlunaGeorge's early singles and its 2012 debut EP, "You Know You Like It" (Tri Angle).

German mortgage lending is a pretty conservative affair, making it hard for people to get onto the ladder without lots of cash to put down.

The standard conductor's uniform is a conservative affair: a single-breasted navy jacket, two logoed brass buttons, and straight-leg, pleatless pants.

The year 2001, that futuristic beacon for a generation of sci-fi fans, is turning out to be a rather buttoned-down, conservative affair.

The festival's import of the Bolshoi Opera's concert production, heard at Avery Fisher Hall, will be a more conservative affair, but the cast is led by the éminence grise of Russian conductors, Gennadi Rozhdhestvensky.

It's hardly a conservative affair: turbine propellers establish an industrial atmosphere, the costumes have a distinct S & M component, and much of the usual action is discarded, including the entire Te Deum procession in Act I (Scarpia is alone onstage).

In much of the West, classical concerts are placid, conservative affairs; the Budapest Festival Orchestra has become a site of independent, even radical, thought.

The conservative love affair with Ronald Reagan has really gone too far.

The conservative social affairs minister, Juan Carlos Aparicio, said the garment was "not a religious sign but a form of discrimination against women" and compared it to genital mutilation.

However, John Maples, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman, warned that the creation of an EU defence alliance, as discussed at the weekend G8 summit in Cologne, would create problems in Europe's relationship with Nato.

However, the British government has avoided the term, which could be considered an accusation of war crimes, although former the foreign secretary Jack Straw and the Conservative foreign affairs spokesman William Hague both used it.