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Перевод: stodgy

[прилагательное]
тяжелый (о пище); скучный; нудный; тяжеловесный; перегруженный

Тезаурус:

1. In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors, both prose and poetry, so that was no problem, though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked - Conrad, Hemingway, Woolf, Graham Greene, C.P. Snow - but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with, though they were not officially on the syllabus - Waugh, Firbank and Forster at their head.
2. The stodgy strands were long and thick and twisted, spotted with mobile gobbets of ketchup.
3. The one-day games were now held before the Test series rather than after, an hors d'oeuvre rather than a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was full, but the first game at Headingley was distinctly uninspiring.
4. And they have done wonders for improving Nissan's stodgy old image in Japan.
5. Between these race-going tales the book charts the growth of gambling from modest and sleazy origins into a multi-million-pound industry and, if some of the material here is rather stodgy, top-heavy with facts, there are enough exotic characters on view to hold the attention.
6. "He is ideal because he is both a statesman and an artist he used to write rather stodgy plays, and we believe he shares the values we stand for," says an ICA spokesman.
7. He is a devout Catholic who loves classic cars, stodgy puddings and paintings.
8. The first half was dreadfully stodgy and matters were not improved by the refereeing of Neil Midgley, one of the League's most senior referees.
9. Despite the evidence in front of our eyes, we are required to accept that Michael is a writer of real stature so that Harwood can conduct a somewhat stodgy debate about the way art feeds off real life, and transforms reality in the process.
10. So the stodgy respectability of the official state cinema becomes leavened with curious characters.
11. Much existing self-build is stodgy and dull.
12. People who are overweight are more likely to have heart attacks; there is also a link between certain forms of cancer and people eating too much stodgy food.
13. At the Detroit show American car makers will unveil some new models, including GM's long-awaited replacement for the stodgy Cadillac Seville.