How To Use Solidity In A Sentence

Besides its aesthetic qualities, the all rag paper has the solidity and the homogeneity needed in bibliophily.
Some of the latter do their best to look like an old-fashioned range only to fail the knuckle-tap test we use to determine the solidity of the construction.
The stair is elegantly made, a light filigree of steel rod and plates that contrasts with the heavy concrete solidity of the vault.
A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
But relaxation, even at first, is not the only thing; after devitalization comes organization, firmness and solidity -- in the right places. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers

Sliding behind the futuristic facia there is a tangible feeling of both solidity and comfort.
His wonderfully contrasty pictures made us all aware of the noble, Roman solidity of some of the structures and the simple, honed elegance of their detailing.
The set of bronzes by Degas in their spare solidity are arranged in front of two of his mistiest canvases and look all the bolder for that.
Following it, they have regrouped and gone back to the basics, working hard and showing solidity and strength in defence.
The metal can be beaten out so thinly that it has hardly any solidity left, when it appears as gold by reflected light but green by transmitted light.
To his team-mates and large sections of the public, Waite epitomised the solidity and dependability of the club player.
He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carven helmet on his head, a splendid red-bossed shield swinging on his shoulder, a wide-grooved, straight sword clashing along his thigh. Irish Fairy Tales
The highly unusual interplay of materials affords rich tonal contrasts and skillfully integrates the solidity of the carved wooden structure with the intricacy of the inscribed inlays.
Then the shade of Marx was gone, and the walls of the official residence had reassumed their reassuring solidity.
There was nothing fancy about it, but the solidity of the masonry gave an impression of lasting durability.
The effect of the paintings' intense color was often to dissolve the solidity of the architectonic structures.
Now they wanted the solidity, the reassurance, of metal coins. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
And then finally even that vapor stops and the solidity fills your whole awareness.
At the center of the web is a steel stair tower, giving a sense of solidity to the otherwise delicate structure.
It is typical of a certain sort of domestic architecture which exudes an air of virtue and solidity.
The rhythm section groove mightily; Parker can light a fire underneath pretty much any band and his solidity is typically elemental here.
The design of the Mulsanne, Bentley's new flagship, is a compelling fusion of sportiness, solidity and coach-built elegance - created on a grand scale. Automotive Headlines
His hand reaches to touch the mirror, but the surface is liquid, violable, lacking solidity. Short Fiction: Things Past
Walpole inaugurated the tradition in the hope that the lifelike solidity of realism might be reconciled with the imaginative range of romance.
The band goofs about in a Blink 182 fashion, on tracks such as White Trash, Walkie Talkie Man and Fat and Proud, but also provides solidity and substance in tracks like Be Good To Me and Road Trip.
The front portion of it is termed ‘bregma’ or ‘sinciput’, developed after birth-for it is the last of all the bones in the body to acquire solidity, - the hinder part is termed the The History of Animals
The essential foundation of the pianoforte was the metal strings, necessitating hammers for inciting the vibrations, and affording in the superior solidity incident to metal support a firmness and susceptibility to development. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
The most obvious course for a politician tipped for greatness, yet hampered by a cherubic countenance and a light voice, would be to gain a reputation for solidity.
This is the echo of the reassuring solidity of that ‘Big Other’ of received wisdom in which we live and breathe.
Despite their short stature, there was a brute solidity about them, their large, thick-fingered hands those of stonecutters and labourers, their tough, weathered skin that of a people toughened by the elements.
But they wandered mainly in the direction of Mrs. Farrinder -- they lingered upon the serene solidity of the great oratress. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
I settled on the thin padding of the window seat and leaned against the reassuring solidity of the window frame.
Thus the believer perceives what I have called the interiority and integrity of God, the resource and solidity of divine life: what is indestructibly solid in God is this life-in-the-other. Addresses given to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Michael Ramsey: I. Theology in the Face of Christ
The man and his sheep and, indeed, the paint and paper itself, provide the only physical sense of solidity.
'A reed shaken with the wind, 'and without substance or solidity to resist, may be placed in what is called a petrifying well, and, by the infiltration of stony substance into its structure, may be turned into a rigid mass, like a little bar of iron. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction.
If so, then the place it deserted gives us the idea of pure space without solidity; whereinto any other body may enter, without either resistance or protrusion of anything. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Achieving solidity at the back doesn't merely depend on the efforts of individuals, however.
Such a philosophy would serve to underwrite all inquiry into the phenomenal world; all of the sciences could have unshakeable confidence in the solidity of their foundations. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
These are the five factors constituting the principles of experience: solidity, liquidity, formativity, aeriality and vacuity.
He passed amusedly over the black-eyed, frail-bodied Mrs. Grantly, and halted on the fourth person, a portly, massive-headed man, whose gray temples belied the youthful solidity of his face. Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
But coming from Jol the words are backed by deeds, and by a solidity of both character and purpose.
Details such as the round-top inset handrails along the stairs and the grid-like wooden details on the stairway balusters are more visible evidence of the attention to detail that went into giving the house a sense of solidity and style. A riverfront retreat, built with the long view
He was soft and firm all at once, solidity and comfort and relief, something she could touch, something that was real.
The effect of the paintings' intense color was often to dissolve the solidity of the architectonic structures.
It is typical of a certain sort of domestic architecture which exudes an air of virtue and solidity.
It is legitimate to speculate about the Devil as long as we do not assume that our speculations have the solidity of holy writ.
The Polo impresses immediately by the quality and solidity of its build.
There are two principal kinds of relief: Low Relief (bas-relief, basso-rilievo), the figures of which have only a limited thickness, and in which the appearance of solidity is achieved by the effect of light and shade; and High Relief (grand-relief, alto-rilievo), in which the figures sometimes appear entirely in the round. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
A public assembly, though composed of men of the smallest possible culture, nevertheless will see clearly the difference between a mere demagogue (that is, a flatterer and untrustworthy citizen) and a man of principle, standing, and solidity. Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
James is all grown up; the mass of him, the physical solidity, possesses a palpable gravitational pull.
A snorting sound, which, accompanied by a terrific clatter of old iron and the crunching of road-mendings, had been steadily growing from distant to near, and from loud to deafening, now reached a pitch of utter indescribability; and as a large splay-wheeled, tall-funneled, plowing engine rolled off the Bensley highroad and lumbered in upon the right-of-way, the powerful bouquet of hot lubricating oil nullified all other smells, and the atmosphere became opaque to the point of solidity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
the solidity of the evidence worked in his favor
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell
It's their edges that give the entire construction its form and its solidity: edges butted up against other edges.
Was repeatedly wool area rug for the lawn, what i solidity to haematochezia is how anywhere all this groundcover was for the declassified paraphysis. Rational Review
It is legitimate to speculate about the Devil as long as we do not assume that our speculations have the solidity of holy writ.
To achieve solidity in the labs and transparency in the public areas, individual office organization had to be rethought as well.
Said to be one of the oldest preserved caravanserais in the world, maybe a thousand years, it wears its age and restoration with solidity rather than elegance.
The solidity we showed and the fight and character was great. Times, Sunday Times
After they are thoroughly dry, put them in a glass matrass into a stream of running water and leave them there twenty days; by that time they will contract the natural hardness and solidity of pearls. Arabian nights. English
Nevertheless it has remained largely unscathed by bomb or administrator since: its sheer solidity makes any alteration an expensive option.
In the intimate talks of that time Myles imparted something of his honest solidity to Gascoyne's somewhat weathercock nature, and to Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a tone of his gentler manners, learned in his pagehood service as attendant upon the Countess and her ladies. Men of Iron
For each minimally discriminable point within the perceiver's perceptual field (where these are identified relative to an origin and axes centered in the perceiver's body) we need to start by specifying whether it is occupied by a surface and, if so, what the orientation, solidity, hue, brightness and saturation of that surface are. Nonconceptual Mental Content
The towers look like beacons in the stormy night, still strangely reassuring in their solidity and familiarity.
It seems that many a man and cow have fallen into an everlasting embrace with eternity by confusing such glamour with solidity.
There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
Toward the west the sky was still dark: not the empty dark of a night sky but the leaden solidity of storm clouds building.
The agreement would give a new solidity to military cooperation between the two countries.
But a world-view that is shared by few people does not attain that solidity: it remains belief.
The word Druid is associated with the Gaelic word for oak, which also has the connotation of strength, solidity, and order. Where To Park Your Broomstick
The stair is elegantly made, a light filigree of steel rod and plates that contrasts with the heavy mass concrete solidity of the vault.
The feelings of solidity and permanence are illusory, for nothing is truly solid and permanent in this life.
His first gift, brought the week following, when the buds of the maples and alders had gone from a button-like solidity to the particulate leafiness of tiny cabbages, was a cloisonné pendant in the form of a peacock, the spread tail a fan in whose center the neck and body of shimmering blue stood out against the proud spread of green feathers eyed in yellow and black. It Happened at Elsinore
Nevertheless, the speeches he has been making recently have deservedly boosted his reputation and surprised people by their solidity and substance.
The agreement would give a new solidity to military cooperation between the two countries.
Now they wanted the solidity, the reassurance, of metal coins. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
It is legitimate to speculate about the Devil as long as we do not assume that our speculations have the solidity of holy writ.
The sculptural solidity of the forms, the sharply creased drapery folds, and morphological details of hair, eyes and extremities are all characteristic of the youthful Bronzino.
Ros was large and warm, but with the solidity only of someone appearing in a dream. THE LAST RAVEN
The eastward mountains, which had been grey, blushed pale pink, the pink deepened into rose, and the rose into crimson, and then all solidity etherealized away and became clear and pure as an amethyst, while all the waving ranges and the broken pine-clothed ridges below etherealized too, but into a dark rich blue, and a strange effect of atmosphere blended the whole into one perfect picture. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Now they wanted the solidity, the reassurance, of metal coins. A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
To paraphrase Bois, in this context it revealed the precariousness of the confidence in bodily and material solidity.
The gently-tapered barrel is especially pleasing to the eye and the overall appearance of the rifle is one of quality and solidity.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell
Batters often contain eggs, and the egg proteins also contribute a nonelastic solidity when they coagulate in the cooking heat. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
It made his strength, his height, his hairiness, his solidity more real and present and caused Malik to feel proud of the life they had before Ali came. The Empty Family
What needs to be understood at this point, by applying wisdom to your compassion, is how much solidity you are bringing to the situation.
She checked the cupboard, the drawers, the space beneath the bed, the solidity of the walls. CHAMELEON
I touched the wood of the central cabin, feeling solidity and wood grain warmed by the morning sun under my fingertips.
The harmonious combination of diagonals, verticals, and horizontals produces an effect of solidity and permanence.
In other respects, the Panamera 4 is very like a Porsche: the stiffness and solidity of the chassis, like a bathysphere hatch; the high-speed data stream from the front wheels to the steering wheel; the ineffable sense of leverage against the road. Deciding the Case of Panamera v. Porsche Purists
Said to be one of the oldest preserved caravanserais in the world, maybe a thousand years, it wears its age and restoration with solidity rather than elegance.
Does she miss the solidity of roles and characters that actresses enjoyed once upon a time?
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell
Her writings have extraordinary depth and solidity.
Look at it again; those expert musses and swirls, the umbers and browns, the yellows and reds, that perfectly poised composition: it rises above and bears down upon the al-Hajar-ul-Aswad solidity of a black train engine that is very obviously motionless, stalled by the storm upon the bridge. Turner’s ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’ (1844)
For things become geometrical by the accession of magnitude to quantity; solid, by the accession of profundity to magnitude; astronomical, by the accession of motion to solidity; harmonical, by the accession of sound to motion. Essays and Miscellanies
The Polo impresses immediately by the quality and solidity of its build.
The stair is elegantly made, a light filigree of steel rod and plates that contrasts with the heavy mass concrete solidity of the vault.
They weren't having any difficulties seeing; to me there was nothing but vague shadows while patches of darkness with a bit more solidity than others moved around, occasionally haloed by the feeble glow from the door.
It is typical of a certain sort of domestic architecture which exudes an air of virtue and solidity.
There was a solidity of integrity and humanity behind the dazzling charm that was matchless.
Then the shade of Marx was gone, and the walls of the official residence had reassumed their reassuring solidity.
Now as then, the sheer beauty and clarity of his piano tone is what first strikes the ear, a deep-centered, warmly rounded solidity that never permits the slightest suggestion of a forced or unmusical sound.
The modeling and outline of the figures showed sculptural solidity.
Judging by the size and weight of the car and the way it has been put together, it gives a reassuring air of solidity.
CREWE, England - February 10, 2010: The design of the Mulsanne, Bentley's new flagship, is a compelling fusion of sportiness, solidity and coach-built elegance - created on a grand scale. Automotive Headlines
Indian scoring opportunity, and his intimidating size and solidity in the backline will be a valuable asset when the Socceroos face South Korea on January 15 AEDT. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
You posit an external, objective reality whose solidity allows an objective mind to perceive it fully and without cultural bias or observational tint.
Once something is in the digital realm it loses its physical solidity, most likely for ever.
Mr Watts gives him just the right touch of solidity, tempered with understanding and humanity without losing credibility.
As "drawing back unto perdition" is merely the palpable evidence of the want of "root" from the first in the Christian profession (Lu 8: 13), so "enduring to the end" is just the proper evidence of its reality and solidity. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But that Moses by the word "rakia" intended rather to denote the expanse overhead, than to predicate solidity for the sky, I suspect will be readily admitted by all. Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
This "something more" is related to the manner in which the scene appears somehow in possession of itself: "for the elements have their motions, though the objects they illuminate are fixed, and the ether hath its transparency, the stars their chrystalline, and the lamp its vital flame, though the ruin and its terrene accompaniments have their opaque solidity. Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
While Duval was a four time All-American at Georgia Tech he was known as Rock, for the solidity of his game and the stoniness of his bearing.
Many of the hills of Warren County, in which Vicksburg is situated, are composed of a curious soft limy clay, called marl, which, normally, has not the solidity of soft chalk. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
Her writings have extraordinary depth and solidity.
The solidity of the evidence worked in his favor.
The rhythm section groove mightily; Parker can light a fire underneath pretty much any band and his solidity is typically elemental here.
The claret jug is an admirable specimen of one of the best Etruscan models, most graceful in outline, and yet presenting an unmistakeable appearance of solidity.
Even for him it was no small effort, for his burthen was a sturdy man with the solidity of years, and nearly helpless, save that the warmth of Harold's body did give him just life and instinct to hold on, and let himself be bound to him with the long plaid so as least to impede his movements; but only one possessed of Harold's almost giant strength could have thus clambered the cutting at the nearest point to Arghouse and plodded through the snow. My Young Alcides
Gift-wrapped in thick brown paper tied with string, it had promising heft and solidity: a chemistry set with a real Bunsen burner, perhaps; certainly not anything boring to wear.
By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space: - the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts. God, Aids & Circumcision
Solidity in the centre of the park is supplied through Smith's conversion into a midfielder, a role where he did not expect to perform.
The stone hard solidity of the quatrefoils, which were cared in relief, has given way to the spiritual unsubstantiality, for the trefoils are carved out, hollow forms like the hollow ‘spiritual’ squares of the second level.
There is variety in texture, too, from the fragile laciness of maidenhair fern to the solidity of harts tongue fern.
Scarry asserts in Dreaming by the Book, — its faintness, two-dimensionality, fleetingness, and dependence on volitional labor — with the vivacity, solidity, persistence, and givenness of the perceptible world .... this comes about because we are given procedures for reproducing the deep structure of perception, and because the procedures themselves have an instructional character that duplicates the Seeing Is Reading
It is typical of a certain sort of domestic architecture which exudes an air of virtue and solidity.
Erkert, who dances the piece, is aided in her passage by 58-year-old Guatemalan-American Julietta Torres, a nondancer who moves with great, slow force and solidity and whose singing is soft but true. Chicago Reader
By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space: — the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
His funky forms investigate established formal concepts of solidity, transparency, interiority and symmetry.
As the incoming Registrar, in an environment in which every predecessor has made a decisive contribution to the solidity of the human resource foundation that is CXC, my term priorities pick up from the challenges passed on as well as the looming texture of the field ahead, and this strategic framework seeks to lay out these priorities. Stabroek News
The social relationships surrounding addicts are traited by unsolidity which effects the current generation and the next generation psychologically, leaving them with no ambitions and goals. Yemen Observer
Fathers are always supposed to be about solidity, a strong presence, reliance.
It does not follow that the man who speaks of "the spacious firmament on high," is under so considerable a delusion as to suspect that the firmament is a firm thing; nor does it follow that Moses thought that "rakia" was a solid substance either, -- even if solidity was the prevailing etymological notion in the word, and even if the Hebrews were no better philosophers than Mr. Goodwin would have us believe. Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
The meaning, then, of the Hebrew word rendered firmament is so utterly removed from the notion of compactness, or solidity, or metallic or crystalline spheres, that it is derived from the very opposite; the fineness or tenuity produced by processes of expansion. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
The solidity we showed and the fight and character was great. Times, Sunday Times
The numerous kinds ranged in colour and solidity from the deep brown and dense German pumpernickel and the common Russian black bread, to the paler and lighter breads of Poland and Sweden.
Pollock, who was by the driver's side through much of his early career and constantly during his days at Williams, provided some solidity.
First, security is the state or condition of tranquility, solidity, reliability and freedom from danger or risk.
Thus, if to extension, solidity, fusibility, the peculiar weightiness, and yellow colour of gold, any one join in his thoughts the negation of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Unfortunately, Alex, I've now tunneled under Pruned's Chicago offices, leaving you stranded above a thousand mile honeycomb of empty networked passages, on the verge of collapse, in Freudian glee, replacing your earth's surface with hollows, a loss of structure, anti-solidity, this terrestrial eggshell you may one day find yourself cracking through. Tunnel-Digging as a Hobby
It has a sense of solidity which is a reflection of the whole ethos of the car.
In 1964 I woke cautiously to find myself well off, with a solidity of bobs and oncers in my pockets.
Flexibility and changeability are merely the opposites of unchangeability and solidity.
His large brush strokes, heavily laden with paint, show with what assurance and speed the artist worked, setting dark against light tones to establish the solidity of his forms.
It should be noted at the outset that the court's decision to partially accept Yukos's so-called corporative claim does not establish the solidity of the company's position, but rather indicates the inadmissibility of some of its claims. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The architects are confident that this structural solidity will not compromise floor layout flexibility.
The rich tea biscuit is the right diameter but lacks a certain structural solidity for dunking.
A man then, of solidity, decency and modesty. Times, Sunday Times

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