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Sentence Examples Most intriguing, though, is that phalanx of stolid men in colourless suits forever behind and beside him. Devotees of classical music don't ordinarily associate the American south with the more stolid traditions of European art forms. His thoughts were interrupted by Tobin's hearty laugh, a laugh that jarred him from his stolid stance and sent him reeling with confusion. The woman's skull was heavyset, belying her once-lithe frame, her brow-ridges dense, her jaws firm and stolid. Only the most stolid of Republicans came out to vote, and they voted for the most stolid Republican. Associating the stolid backbencher with a tax haven based in an exotic Caribbean location requires quite a feat of imagination. The great Victorian railway termini of London give rise to lines that snake out across the city atop stolid red-brick viaducts. The sound and video quality are reminiscent of a solid public television offering, which is to say stolid and unflashy but executed with quality. You may know that behind the stolid face of the busboy, foodworker and hotel maid there's a story. If the only way to get ahead in a big organization is to toe the line, then you'll end up with a stolid stratum of cautious time-servers. The man sitting to her left with the black ooze dripping from his pores was quite intimidating with his stolid, emotionless face. After an initial consensus that it was daring and different, a new consensus emerged that it was stolid and indifferent. The loss of nearly a generation of their children in the concentration camps numbed rural Afrikaners into a stolid hatred of British authority. If you want a symbol of Britishness, look no further than the stolid calm that came over London last Thursday. But then I realized I actually agree with the sentiment, if not the stolid expression of it. Once considered a caretaker, the stolid former Air Force commander has lasted in office nearly a quarter of a century. To British ears, your claim not to read polls sounds like stolid indifference to public opinion, not moral strength and political courage. It is as if our stolid church hymns have been put through a magical transformation and sent back to us full of life, spirit and human feeling. Jeanne, his lovely, loving wife senses something has disturbed the stolid contentedness of her husband. It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal. Show More Sentences Douglas, often a rather stolid actor, possessed the savvy to come near the brink of self-parody without falling over the edge. Jacamars and puffbirds, the fly-catching members of the order, are stolid, unsuspicious birds, allowing close approach by humans. The stereotypical view of public institutions as stolid and uncreative is somewhat unfair. Sometimes the result is welcome: an AVO snooper's stolid note brings back long-forgotten memories of a summer picnic. It was difficult to imagine those orchards now, those rich fields where the stolid cattle cropped the juicy grass. There were the adventurous coureurs de bois who led a roving life in the bush, and the stolid habitants who built homes and cultivated the soil. His stolid immobile attitude under duress is compared to sceptical acatalepsy, although it is admitted that this could also be attributed to Stoicism. She is stolid and reliable, sartorially and in seemingly every other way, and that forms the essence of her appeal. Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? Taylor was perfectly formed for the intuitive, opportunistic life of a rebel, but not for the stolid bureaucracy of government. At a time when most automakers are shoehorning every new gimcrack gadget they can into their concept cars, leave it to the stolid Swedes at Volvo to get back to basics. She evinces a stolid seriousness way beyond her youthful appearance. There are some who believe it is incumbent on golfers to also act as entertainers, and who despair of the South African's stolid approach to his business. Those Romans' stolid inclination towards straight lines meant that if a topographical outcrop loomed in their way, they simply built up and over it. The only characters who still appear to be true to life are his stolid parents, worried that their son's broken marriage will affect their standing in society. Conan returned their stares with stolid indifference. That was made possible by migration into the district by northern businessmen and midwestern retirees: stolid Rotarians and Chamber of Commerce types, rather than the fiery southern conservatives found elsewhere in Florida. But if you want to effect a breach in that stolid edifice the human personality I think it helps to cultivate this Kierkegaardian sense of defenselessness. But as The Economist went to press in the early hours of May 8th, it seemed that David Cameron's party had won an extraordinary vindication for a rather lifeless campaign and the stolid economic record it was based upon. Burris responded with typical displays of his stolid good nature. Show More Sentences Any stranger who travels the highways of Canada this summer might well come away with the impression that, beneath their stolid exterior, Canadians actually form a vast tribe of footloose nomads. The youngly born brother made no explanation of his sense of offense other than to go over and give Artie a stolid and resounding blow. Villa Necchi's soaring, impressively stolid rooms, with their lozenge stucco ceilings, walnut parquetry and heavy sliding doors, convey both an air of grandeur and a strict sense of discipline. The film's real energy comes from DiCaprio, his spoilt-kitten physiognomy filling out into shades of Mickey Rooney pudginess: he's perfect as a cocky kid who is further than he thinks down the road to stolid middle age. And when he did, he was not positioned in front of a stolid stage set. The cantatas ended with chorale settings, those plain, stolid Lutheran hymns that the congregation knew so well and could easily recognize, even when heavily improvised upon by organists. He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said. His reputation as a stern, stolid reformer is counterbalanced by the fact that he had an excellent sense of humour and used satiric fables, spoofing, and puns in his writings. Examples from Classical Literature He walked aft and, placing himself in a deckchair, gazed listlessly at the stolid figure of the helmsman. It was, in form and 'fixtures,' an inalienably Mid-Victorian room, and held its stolid own in the riot of Rossettis. Hour after hour the rods were plied with stolid monotony, responseless and unnoticed. They hardly knew the man, usually so equable and quiet as to be almost stolid. To the stolid German mind they were human comets, whose comings and goings were not to be gaged by any reasonable standard. But this song came from neither of the weatherworn steersmen, nor from the stolid members of their half-breed crew. She was trembling with eagerness, but the station agent stood on my other side, and he was woodenly stolid. The black dwarf had been sent for from the castle, the outwardly stolid and incurious maid-of-all-work informed him. She had found a blessed refuge from her perplexities in the stolid Adelaide's unawareness. I heard him trying to render the stock phrases of Low Church piety into French for the benefit of the stolid man in grey alpaca. Bob took his first lesson in Western riding behind Lejeune and his stolid mule. Where his stolid four poster and dresser had been there was greyish nothingness. From the cheek-bones up he looked like an Indian, and expressed a stolid power and swarthiness. An afflatus of heroism given forth by this host of self-devoted men communicates itself to the most stolid spectators. But if stolid, Timmins had his fair share of a certain slow pugnacity. Eccles faced him unwillingly, with a stolid front but shifty eyes. Edward Burbage, like Shakespeare's own portrait, is, we venture to think, a trifle stolid. And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands. My nerves had suddenly become things of stolid, untempered iron. A box of candy against a good cigar, they are a stolid married couple. Show More Sentences You and I know that he died of sheer fright, and we know also what frightened him, but how are we to get twelve stolid jurymen to know it. But in the main it was a bare and empty land, featureless and stolid. They shuffled, pushed, had an irresolute mien and stolid faces. Hiram said not a word, but he sat looking at the other in stolid silence. In the same way, I saw our General once approach the table in a stolid, important manner. Where and how did we get the idea that the Germans are a stolid, phlegmatic race? He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf. The little priest was not an interesting man to look at, having stubbly brown hair and a round and stolid face. Another amusing scene features Jameson Tabor as Vertumnus, a light-footed sprite hopelessly in love with the stolid wood nymph Pomona. This time he dragged her back into the rear apartment of his tent where three Negresses looked up in stolid indifference to the tragedy being enacted before them. Moreover a blunt and stolid regard for literal truth indisposes them to make those lavish promises by which the more judicious Circle can in a moment pacify his consort. Old Mazey went out alone and used his influence with Dawkes, who, staring in stolid amazement, put a leather cushion on the cart-seat for his fellow-traveler. How stolid they were and how matter of fact and how sensible. And here was a stolid constable confronting us, in the short tunic that they wear in summer, his whistle on its chain, but no truncheon at his side. Were our friend now to stalk in among them, with that wide-open stare, at once wild and stolid, his ungenial presence would be apt to change their cheer. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of stolid? Words that rhyme with stolid What is the adverb for stolid? What is the adjective for stolid? What is the noun for stolid? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words stoles stolen stoled stole stola STOL stolidity stolidly stolidness Stoll stollen stolon 6-letter Words Starting With s st sto stol stoli