The somewhat staid décor comes much more to life in the evening candlelight.

Watch Hill was a place where everyone knew everyone, a somewhat staid and family-oriented community compared to glittering Newport, Rhode Island's other, more famous summer colony.

This company, Stonehart Publications, introduced many innovative newsletters and marketing concepts to the somewhat staid British publishing environment.

Completed in 1968, the palace itself is a somewhat staid, contemporary reconstruction of the Meiji .

This rear fairing earned it the nickname 'bathtub' from its shape and made the T110 look somewhat staid.

But in this case, the giant, somewhat staid Kellwood gave G.A.V. a large, well-respected distribution network and a big-wallet name.

The village was known as "a somewhat staid and family-oriented community compared to glittering Newport, Rhode Island's other, more famous summer colony."

"I thought it was a clever twist to take a man known for his modern, punchy, almost street films and apply him to the somewhat staid Holmes legacy," he says.

Even the way the new complex is being constructed gives some hint of the difficulties it will face fitting into the somewhat staid downtown arts scene.

"Whilst [name of the property] is a well thought-of block, it is somewhat staid in comparison with other blocks built more recently," notes the agent.