conservativeness

And, as the Dodgers clearly believe given their conservativeness amid this week’s flurry of winter meeting activity, being willing to not keep spending at levels even their deep-pocketed ownership group might be unwilling to stomach.

And for all of its contemporary queerness, the work feels a bit stodgy; its choreographic conservativeness made me desire the sort of radical swerve that Nijinsky took, in the years right after “Narcisse,” with “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune” and “The Rite of Spring.”

Has the conservativeness of the multiplex business surprised him?

So maybe it’s time to bring out my inner conservativeness.

We have a president who, with the decisive support of self-declared conservativeness, acts with contempt for law and custom, and for decency.