Fashion shows used to be sedate affairs catering mostly to magazine editors and department-store buyers.

In 2001 she was interviewed over lunch by the author Martin Amis, who describes it as "a relatively sedate affair."

Annual meetings in Switzerland are usually sedate, orderly affairs conducted in German in comfortable settings.

The company's annual meeting that afternoon was a comparatively sedate affair.

It was a rather sedate affair, nothing like the auction in January that drew hundreds of bidders, gawkers and protesters.

I pictured them as sedate affairs until I arrived at a mall in Cebu City.

But Kaada/Patton is a sedate affair compared to Patton's noisier excursions.

Indeed, commission hearings were rarely sedate affairs.

The event, which included piano music by 10-year-old Ivanka Trump, was a sedate affair, at least until the lights went out temporarily.