Businesslike

Venus remains in a profoundly businesslike position, and that’s one reason why you are still rather bogged down with family and domestic chores.

As women become more dominant in politics, they are also trying to look smart, businesslike and powerful.

The Bhaktas’ living room sits behind the main desk of the motel, where the businesslike surfaces of the front lobby give way to dark blue carpeting and cushioned seats.

The chancellor is expected to say the UK and should aim to have a businesslike relationship going forward at Monday’s meeting, taking place in Brussels.

There was a more businesslike focus to her second Olympics but also the same surreal and in some ways wide-eyed feeling when in an Olympic Village.

Any relationship or connection that involves humans, no matter how businesslike or brief, involves feelings.

That energetic planet Mars is in a particularly businesslike mood, giving you a much-needed shot in the arm.

Also, Sports analyst, Vincent Akinbami, described the players as more businesslike in the encounter, unlike in the last four matches.

Bauer looked businesslike as he walked off the mound, as if he had done this before.

China coldshoulders these countries, treating them with a "businesslike" attitude.

One was sleek and collarless over a polo neck, two had businesslike notched lapels, one a tuxedo shawl satin collar.

We’re shunted from our little festive cocoons where all is calm, all is bright, and mince pies are a perfectly acceptable breakfast food, to a more businesslike world where the sudden absence of twinkly lights makes everything feel that bit gloomier.

Looking businesslike, the South's Unification minister Cho Myoung-Gyon and the North's chief delegate Ri Son-Gwon shook hands at the entrance to the building, and again across the negotiating table.

Death is treated as a businesslike event in Gilbert's topsy-turvy world.

Étienne had a much more even and businesslike temperament.

He has a loud voice and a nervous restless manner and a perfectly unaffected and businesslike address.