staidly

The adults walked staidly among them, as elders should, and now and then pulled a tail to maintain order.

All concern staidly settled characters who suffer identity crises and worse upon leaving their socio-economic comfort zones.

These two small, protective figures, sitting staidly under their small roof—what a power they had!

Odd as it is to see a defense of the abstract and the avant-garde told in such a staidly linear, classical manner, the sting of the movie’s political rebuke is clear and unmistakable.

As a young sailor, Revere had flirted and frolicked with many girls, he had been staidly engaged to another for a long time, but not until that day had he really loved any one.