stolid

How To Use stolid In A Sentence

• * [6824] Sensus est de angelis, qui si cum Deo confederantur, aut si eos secum Deus conferat, non habens rationem eorum quæ in illis posuit, et dotium ac donorum quæ in illos contulit, et quibus eos exornavit et illustravit, inveniat eos stolidos. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
• `Open, sesame," Rhodes said stolidly, and Virtual One began to disgorge streaming ribbons of data into the air.
• He loved everything there, animated or inanimated; the very mud of the riverside; the very alligators, enormous and stolid, basking on it with impertinent unconcern. An Outcast Of The Islands
• The sound and video quality are reminiscent of a solid public television offering, which is to say stolid and unflashy but executed with quality.
• One good fiction can often feel infinitely preferable to two stolid facts. Times, Sunday Times
• * [3200] Sensus est de angelis, qui si cum Deo confederantur, aut si eos secum Deus conferat, non habens rationem eorum quæ in illis posuit, et dotium ac donorum quæ in illos contulit, et quibus eos exornavit et illustravit, inveniat eos stolidos. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
• But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote. The Right Thing
• She knew full well that this stolid citizen of the “motherland” had never ingested so much as a microgram of Xanax, Prozac, or Halcion. One Flight Up
• He was a dull, monotonous speaker - an unheroic, middle-sized, stolid, plain soldier.
• The possibilities for a true rhyme here are endless: an agoraphobic might want to substitute "lair," a friendly Frenchman "mon frere," a stolid German "mein herr," etc. Michael Sigman: Sondheim's Lyrics: Rhymes, Reasons and Religion