Hey there,

My own site, heitamag.com is built on wordpress, while still having a majorly “bloggy” look and feel about it, still has a lot of things in it that one more associate with a more traditional CMS.

As for doing sites purely as a static site or completely non-bloggy look and feel, is easy enough. You need to make use of a plugin, but still simple enough. Filosofo Homepage is plugin I am using on a client site. Works brilliantly. As well as the page organiser plugin.

WordPress rocks. It really does.