How To Use Stolid In A Sentence
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* [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
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`Open, sesame," Rhodes said stolidly, and Virtual One began to disgorge streaming ribbons of data into the air.
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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
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The sound and video quality are reminiscent of a solid public television offering, which is to say stolid and unflashy but executed with quality.
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One good fiction can often feel infinitely preferable to two stolid facts.
Times, Sunday Times
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* [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
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But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote.
The Right Thing
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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
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He was a dull, monotonous speaker - an unheroic, middle-sized, stolid, plain soldier.
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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
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It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal.
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It used to be stolid and ‘small c’ conservative, though I've suspected it of more recently indulging in trendy left-wingery.
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There is scant enthusiasm for a real leader; they seem stolid, harrumphing about white papers.
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I take what you call a breather," answered the man stolidly.
A Mating in the Wilds
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He conceals his feelings behind a rather stolid manner.
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`Open, sesame," Rhodes said stolidly, and Virtual One began to disgorge streaming ribbons of data into the air.
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To British ears, your claim not to read polls sounds like stolid indifference to public opinion, not moral strength and political courage.
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Those Romans' stolid inclination towards straight lines meant that if a topographical outcrop loomed in their way, they simply built up and over it.
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The car rides low and stolid, like a limo, probably because its main battery, which runs the length of the chassis and bifurcates the rear seat, limiting the likelihood of three passengers or recumbent teenage sex also weighs as much as a fully stocked Maytag refrigerator.
Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt
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Joe asked, his expression stolid, only his eyes showing his nervous tension as he continually glanced from side to side, making certain nothing could creep up on them.
The Chrome Borne
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His thoughts were interrupted by Tobin's hearty laugh, a laugh that jarred him from his stolid stance and sent him reeling with confusion.
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Stolid brick houses with bay windows and big gardens exude an air of decorousness and prosperity.
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Mark sat stolid and silent.
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The loss of nearly a generation of their children in the concentration camps numbed rural Afrikaners into a stolid hatred of British authority.
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She swallowed bile and willed the pill to dissolve faster, sneaking a glance at her fellow commanding officers, all arrayed around the readout in stolid contemplation. “Looks like the blast points were precise, †one of the men observed, pointing out charred circles on the readout with his stylus. “They maximized human casualties rather than structural damage. †“That makes sense, †a blue-eyed woman replied. “That†™ s one of the few plants that isn†™ t automated.
365 tomorrows » J. Loseth : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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There is always hope of reform for a dull, uneducated, stolid man, led by accident or temptation into guilt; but where a man of great ability, and highly educated, besots himself in the intoxication of dark and terrible excitements, takes impure delight in tortuous and slimy ways, the good angel abandons him forever.
Lucretia — Complete
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His stolid instinctive conservatism grovels before the tyrant rule of routine, despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler: his mental torpidity, founded upon physical indolence, renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful: his conscious weakness shows itself in overweening arrogance and intolerance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The man sitting to her left with the black ooze dripping from his pores was quite intimidating with his stolid, emotionless face.
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Most intriguing, though, is that phalanx of stolid men in colourless suits forever behind and beside him.
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If he seems a bit stolid throughout, that could be the military man's unease in mufti; it certainly helps make his credulousness credible.
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The college is a stolid-looking building with no lawn.
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One vision, specially clear and unreasonable, for he had not even been conscious of noting it, was the face of the youth cleaning the gun; its intent, stolid, yet startled uplook at the kitchen doorway, quickly shifted to the girl carrying the cider jug.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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For the second time Daley had misjudged the voter appeal of a seemingly bland, stolid, young lawyer named Richard Ogilvie.
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She stared at him in stolid wonder, but her only reply was to hold the door wider and say: "Come in an 'set wun't ye?
The Mystery at Number Six
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A little later a small herd of cattle passed, driven to pasture by a stolid Alsatian, who replied to the soldiers 'questions in German patois and shrugged his heavy shoulders like a Frenchman.
The Maids of Paradise
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There are classical comedies in verse, too, wherein the knavish valets, rakish heroes, stolid old guardians, and smart, free-spoken serving-women, discourse in Alexandrines, as loud as the Horaces or the Cid.
The Paris Sketch Book
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He was as solid as his father and as stolid as his uncle Sadiq: an opening bat who could bowl a useful off-break.
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We are taught to think of them as stolid, almost physically rooted to the soil and averse from the artificial.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
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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?
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He's a very stolid, serious man.
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People who expressed themselves roughly called her stolid.
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I remember her as being a rather slow, stolid girl.
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From the label a stolid farmer smiled at her, the image as outdated as the 1950s Betty Crocker.
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set
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Arkady had noticed before that Vanko, with his stolid manner and calflike fringe of hair, seemed to have keys to everything, as if he were the town custodian.
Wolves Eat Dogs
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he said `no' stolidly
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He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face, and said softly, as he drooped his head, ` ` My son, my Ostap! ''
Taras Bulba and Other Tales
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The great Victorian railway termini of London give rise to lines that snake out across the city atop stolid red-brick viaducts.
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The rhythms were never more than stolid and often numbingly predictable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I envy those stolid people who can talk so contemptuously of frailty -- I mean I envy them their self-mastery; I quite understand the temperament of those who can be content with a slight exhilaration, and who fiercely contemn the crackbrain who does not know when to stop.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
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For the second time Daley had misjudged the voter appeal of a seemingly bland, stolid, young lawyer named Richard Ogilvie.
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He was as solid as his father and as stolid as his uncle: an opening bat who could bowl a useful off-break.
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They went to their places with that spirit of stolid cheeriness which is the wonder and admiration of every one who knows Tommy Atkins intimately.
Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
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Stolidly they sat, the serried soldiers, clean-shaven, square-jawed, looking slightly bored and, in at least one case that I spotted, rhythmically chewing gum.
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But then I realized I actually agree with the sentiment, if not the stolid expression of it.
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As Jess untied the Queen and helped her down, she saw Brian working hard to keep his expression stolid, to maintain the professional unseeing look all the guardsmen had long perfected.
Zombies vs. Unicorns
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Trekker descending trail on Mt Olympus from Ghiosos Apostolidhis refuge through forest near Petrostrouga.
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_potiche_, a _magot chinois_ conceived by a childish and extravagant imagination, but allowed to stand in stolid impotence in the twilight of the upper shelf.
Notes on Life and Letters
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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.
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But the stolid tree -- a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life -- afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead.
My Tropic Isle
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Devotees of classical music don't ordinarily associate the American south with the more stolid traditions of European art forms.
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She evinces a stolid seriousness way beyond her youthful appearance.
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He conceals his feelings behind a rather stolid manner.
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Joe asked, his expression stolid, only his eyes showing his nervous tension as he continually glanced from side to side, making certain nothing could creep up on them.
Chrome Circle
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There was reason for believing that David's stolid silence regarding his own concerns concealed a general impecuniousness quite as pronounced as that of the artist friends whose cause he pleaded.
War-time Silhouettes
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For seabirds some of the largest colonies of tropical Atlantic seabirds are found on the Fernando de Noronha islands, with large numbers species including the black noddy or Anous minutis, the brown noddy Anous stolidus, the sooty tern Sterna fuscata, the fairy tern Gygis alba, the masked booby Sula dactylatra, the brown booby Sula leucogaster, the red footed booby Sula sula; the magnificent frigatebird Fragata magnificans and the red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus.
Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Brazil
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The years 1903 to 1908 found him travelling all over Europe conducting for orchestras, which were never better than fourth rate, and one of which he described as 'solid, stolid, and squalid'.
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How the conoidal bullet and rifled barrel, opposed at Inkermann to the antiquated Russian musket, tore through the dense columns which had forced their way to the brow of the plateau, driving the stolid
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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Among the swayed is Ed Asner, who is no less easy to impress than Carl, the squat and stolid 78-year-old coot he speaks for in Up. I got the job and thought, 'OK, I'm going to do a voice-over in a big-time feature.'
Pixar moves on 'Up' with its 10th movie
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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.
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The usually stolid world of smaller investment trusts has sprung to life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Major seabird and waterbird colonies include those of red-footed booby Sula sula (3,000-4,000 individuals) on Half Moon Caye, brown booby Sula leucogaster on Man O'War Caye, and common noddy Anous stolidus on Glover's Reef.
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
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And this activity, which we stolid beef-eaters, before we had been taught by modern science that we were no better than baboons ourselves, were wont discourteously to liken to that of the livelier tribes of Monkey, did in fact so much impress the Hollanders, when first the irriguous Franks gave motion and current to their marshes, that the earliest heraldry in which we find the Frank power blazoned seems to be founded on a Dutch endeavour to give some distantly satirical presentment of it.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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We are just stolid, slightly stressed, relatively competent men committed to sharing in as much of the grunt work of parenting as we can.
Times, Sunday Times
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I whiled away the time by playing with Rubens under the table, Aunt Maria "superintended" the music in a way that must have made any less stolid performer nervous, and Leo was apt to try and distract Polly's attention by grimaces and pantomime of a far from respectful nature behind Aunt Maria's back.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son
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He was a dull, monotonous speaker - an unheroic, middle-sized, stolid, plain soldier.
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"Hero" has much in it to discuss, though the artful, exciting, and intelligent exploration of wuxia is far more interesting than the film's somewhat stolid political allegory.
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From a dog you get stolid clear-eyed constancy: we belong together and that's how it is.
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Patty watched one poor lady, who seemed to be travelling alone, and who continually inquired of the stolid and unobliging porters, "Do you speak English?" and invariably received the reply, "Non, madame; non, madame.
Patty in Paris
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`Open, sesame," Rhodes said stolidly, and Virtual One began to disgorge streaming ribbons of data into the air.
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Dutiful clenched Thick's chubby wrist in his hand and Thick stood, stock-still and stolid, immobile and yet roaring like a bon.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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When a shot is fired into a sleeping herd, all start up on their feet, and stare with peculiar stolid looks of hippopotamic surprise, and wait for another shot before dashing into deep water.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
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She passed the orchestra, trudging back to Saint-Lys along the gravel drive, the two fat violinists stolidly smoking their Alsacian pipes, the harp-player muttering to the aged piper, the little biniou man from the Côte-d'Or, excited, mercurial, gesticulating at every step.
Lorraine A romance
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Nemo enim tam caeca mente, qui non hoc ipsum videat: nemo tam stolido ingenio, qui non intelligat; tam pertinaci judicio, qui non agnoscat, ab his idiotis circumforaneis, sacram pollui Theologiam, ac caelestes Musas quasi prophanum quiddam prostitui.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He occasionally feinted, shook his head when the weight of a punch landed, and moved stolidly about, never leaping or springing or wasting an ounce of strength.
A PIECE OF STEAK
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We are just stolid, slightly stressed, relatively competent men committed to sharing in as much of the grunt work of parenting as we can.
Times, Sunday Times
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If I were to glance out the window I would see the occasional forlorn exerciser stolidly jogging off to nowhere and back, or a dog walker slogging ankle-bone-deep through the beige quicksand-like sand: early risers, God bless 'em.
Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
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If you want a symbol of Britishness, look no further than the stolid calm that came over London last Thursday.
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You may know that behind the stolid face of the busboy, foodworker and hotel maid there's a story.
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Once considered a caretaker, the stolid former Air Force commander has lasted in office nearly a quarter of a century.
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And for all the dazzle of modernity the simple, stolid book is still the best way to tell an elaborate, imbricated, enchanted tale.
Rabbi David Wolpe: The Sacred Word
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He had besides, the stolidity of the German, and their cool calculating practicalism.
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac
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Vince Tyler was the stolid, dependable center for his small circle of friends, but inwardly he had a major desire for his friend Stuart; he had a jones for Jones.
CROSSOVER OF THE WEEK
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For young people with few prospects beyond stolid lives punctuated by bouts of alcoholic excess, it's easy to understand the allure of more irreverent, less traditional ways of life.
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As I say, the young are high-strung, nervous, excitable; the middle - aged are empty-headed, stolid, and stupid.
THE GHETTO
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Indian and half breed women gazed stolidly at the strange vehicle, while the children and barking dogs clamorously advertised its progress.
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE
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He was severely reprimanded on more than one occasion for being too lenient - in other words, too gentlemanly - and finally my letters, received or written, which had been submitted to him for examination, were transferred to the detective Dennis, who, in order to seem vigilant in proportion to his former stolidity, returned me the simplest note, as being offensive to the canaille of the
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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But though young, I was neither nervous nor imaginative; I was inclined to be what is termed stolid, that is to say, extremely matter-of-fact and practical.
Scottish Ghost Stories
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But the stolid tree — a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life — afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead.
My Tropic Isle
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Most intriguing, though, is that phalanx of stolid men in colourless suits forever behind and beside Bush.
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Some of Erickson's buildings have the grim, stolid blankness of brutalism, but others, especially the well-sited ones that have gathered a cloak of greenery, feel primitive in a good way, magical emanations from the earth.
Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
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Jeanne, his lovely, loving wife senses something has disturbed the stolid contentedness of her husband.
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After an initial consensus that it was daring and different, a new consensus emerged that it was stolid and indifferent.
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Navis stulta, quae continuo movetur nautae stulti qui se periculis exponunt, aqua insana quae sic fremit, &c. aer jactatur, &c. qui mari se committit stolidum unum terra fugiens, 40. mari invenit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Only the most stolid of Republicans came out to vote, and they voted for the most stolid Republican.
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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.
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He wakes his comrade, who stirs and stolidly puts on his boots, army shirt, cap, gun.
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It makes the entrancingly insubstantial sound stolid and dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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"Growth of the Soil" is an Old Testament-style portrayal of stolid mountain dwellers.
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As she stood there in stolid embarrassment polishing the shiny bar, Miss Levering clutched the tray to steady it, and with the other hand she pulled the pillow higher.
The Convert
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There is scant enthusiasm for a real leader; they seem stolid, harrumphing about white papers.
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But "Good Pope John, " a stolid career diplomat for the Vatican, surprised everyone by announcing a year later that he was convening the Second Vatican Council, a major event in church history.
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Fiery Magyars, mechanical Teutons and stolid muzhiks mixed together in an indescribable hellbroth of combative fury and destructive passion.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes
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One good fiction can often feel infinitely preferable to two stolid facts.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The drawbacks of this relationship are its stolid dullness and its tendency to focus power in a small circle of people.
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Zenobia, as stolid as an old and mighty warrior.
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He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face; and said softly, as he drooped his head, “My son, my Ostap!”
Taras Bulba
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her face showed nothing but stolid indifference
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a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course
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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.