But as the teams endured sweltering training camps last month, they were studies in stolidness. |
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Updike's prose, with its plush attention to detail, is a lament for this sad stolidness. |
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But not even Gergiev's energy and Borodin's orchestral palette could disguise the piece's tendency to stolidness. |
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In the lead, the muscled-up actor has never looked better, and even his stolidness works here because it gives her something to play off, to tease. |
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Mackay locates the stolidness in, first, the repairman who can fix a broken heart and later, Phil, a man staring down the end of his marriage. |
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It's Hepburn as Linda, Julia's aimless sister, the black sheep of the family, who perfectly comprehends Johnny's aversion to business, security and stolidness, his aversion to America itself. |
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I was definitely thinking about her feelings.' Wimbledon, anyway, has the perfect answer to emotions running out of control, the presentation ceremony conducted by the Duke of Kent with patrician stolidness. |
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But it's Mr. Sullivan's casually electrifying turn that allays any potential stolidness to a definably well-made play that confines the action to the domestic arena even as it aims a poison dart squarely at society. |
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Mashed potato is simply dull, but then the stolidness of Delia culinary innovation is her genius. |
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