Translation for 'stodgy' from English to Icelandic

stodgy

þungmeltur {adj}

• Pogo went off to travel the world and enjoy himself, while Katharine remarried to stodgy banker Jim Dougherty.
• "Variety's" 1932 review was less enamored: "General slowness and stodgy overdramatics won't draw the flaps, nor will a tragic finale help."
• In 1940, while on a cruise, stodgy, overly frugal businessman Larry Wilson is hit on the head with an oar while rescuing a drunk "Doc" Ryan from the water.
• In a 2004 management change, WPXZ moved to more CHR-based adult contemporary format in an effort to hip up WPXZ's stodgy image of tired music.
• By this time, Van der Bijl's reputation for stodgy batting was well in the past.

• Despite the station's high ratings over the years (particularly in the "at-work" audience), by 2003, WLTQ's ratings started dropping considerably, as the station's stodgy "Light" image turned many younger listeners away, who associated it negatively as resembling 'elevator music' with the fading of both easy listening and lite AC formats in the late 1990s into the early 2000s.
• After Speedvision became Speed Channel in 2002, only about thirty of the episodes were repackaged, to remove the embedded old Speedvision logo, and also to replace the previously very stodgy introductions with something a bit more casual.
• The Kerbys try to bring some excitement and joy into the life of stodgy and conservative Topper.
• His personal style of presenting economic facts and data has been described as that of "a witty, urbane dinner guest, a droll observer of human affairs", rather than a stodgy economics.
• Shubhra Gupta of "The Indian Express" gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5 saying that "the film stodgy plot spoils the cast performance".

• Several film critics have considered this film stodgy and unwieldy.
• "Artillery" was co-founded in 2006 by former "LA Weekly" editorial staff members Tulsa Kinney and Charles Rappleye as an alternative to "the stodgy, art-mag paradigm"—as editor-in-chief Kinney put it in the inaugural issue—slyly referencing the often academic "artspeak" generated by gallery press releases and prevalent in widely circulated arts publications such as "Art in America" and "Artforum".
• Pre-Raphaelites were rebelling against the 'stodgy' Royal Academy.
• The "trophy" wife of a stodgy man of wealth yearns for a more interesting life. A daughter of a nobleman, her solution leads to scandal, ruin, and an odd denouement.
• "Fuddy-duddy" is often used to refer to a man perceived as stodgy or foolish.

• The 1980 Ford Thunderbird (eighth generation) and Mercury Cougar (fifth generation) were downsized to a mid-size car and described as "stodgy-looking".
• Upon meeting two clients, the reserved and somewhat stodgy Miles Doughton and his playboy younger brother Evan, it doesn't take long for Meg to realize she's romantically interested in Evan.
• "Muriella Pent" (2004) is a longer and more ambitious novel, concerning the arrival of a Caribbean writer of mixed race in the stodgy environment of official Canadian culture.