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or fogeyish
as in stodgy
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That sort of living-document approach helps keep The Invite from coming off as overly stagy or stodgy.
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Think of it as pasta salad that’s more crunchy greens than stodgy pasta, or a green salad with the extra support and satiety of protein and carbs.
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Like sparks igniting, the result is a piece that feels alive with energy rather than a dowdy relic of the past.
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Reed was not the typical dowdy or frumpy critic.
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Huntington, a lifelong Democrat, was accused of blimpish conservatism, jingoism or worse.
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But rather than simply repeat the even-then ossified list of events leading to the invention of photography and the medium’s later innovations, the book uses a series of stories, reminiscences, and tall tales to describe how photography transformed everyday (and not so everyday) experience.
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Lockhart, a mathematician who taught first at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz and then for many years at Saint Ann’s, a progressive private school in Brooklyn, argues that the injury is due to our ossified K–12 mathematics curriculum.
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The President, this faction argued, was too cowed by hawkish interventionists like Mark Levin, a neoconservative commentator.
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Those twenty-five years or so were the apex of Washington Consensus conservatism, of neoconservative interventions abroad and neoliberal economic policy at home.
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Brent crude steadied Friday but remained set for a more than 8% weekly decline given news of the deal.
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All of her clients have a set start and end time.
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In the months after Assad’s fall in Syria, there were several eruptions of violence between groups loyal and opposed to al-Sharaa that spiraled into sectarian revenge attacks, in which Sunni Islamist fighters affiliated with the new government carried out attacks on Alawite and Druze civilians.
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Why, after all, did the feudal lords of the South, loyal to Church and throne, throw off the royal yoke to join the Revolution?
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Handing the follow-up to her, and her faithful floating dog Krypto, strikes me as an extremely natural next step.
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Austin Sumter, a faithful reader of this newsletter.
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