Sentence examples similar to staid behavior from inspiring English sources
More and more, Japanese teenagers are running with the ball, rejecting the staid, studious behavior of the past in ways that are disconcerting even for a government that has been investigating ways of making childhood less regimented.
The phenomenal success of the show relies at least in part on the thrill of casual vice, on the glamour of spectacularly messy, self-destructive behavior to our relatively staid and enlightened times.
But his sympathy for the impoverished workers led him to sleep in a tiny shack and dress in rags - behavior that did not sit well with his staid church superiors.
In her encounter with Luke, Nell's behavior is out of character—she's a generally staid person who finds herself acting impulsively and, ultimately, she also feels remorse about what happens.
Once upon a more staid time, the purpose of children's books was to model good behavior.
Far from the raucous behavior of the past, that convention appeared by all accounts to be a staid affair, with symposiums and banquets overseen by a generally older crowd of men -- all that remain since younger pilots have avoided the group.
MARANA, Ariz., — For one week each year, the normally staid golf governing bodies comprising the International Federation of PGA Tours step outside the lines and throw down some fairly risky behavior.
Congenial, chatty, quite staid.
