stolid
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Her painting is a stolid assemblage of horizontal bands, stacked confidently on top of one another, the weight of the structure seeming to make those on top begin to dissolve into those below.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The solid, stolid, self-satisfied Edwardian England that had seemed so deserving of his lashes was itself now wounded, and something in Galsworthy shifted accordingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
They have sometimes been, by turns, stolid, corrupt and ineffectual, but virtually any semblance of organization is better than nothing, because non-union workers don’t strike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Italian football back then was highly strategic and fundamentally defensive - entertainment value was compromised by stolid pragmatism.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
They were middle-class people, had lived all their married lives in a butter-colored middle-class ranch house in a stolid, middle-class town.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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