stolid

Example Sentences

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Rich, 54, a decidedly stolid type who composes their music and plays guitar, recalled, “Hair metal was big.”

From New York Times

In their chickens, though — with close-set beady eyes and faces far more expressive than a real chicken’s stolid look could ever be — the studio located comic gold.

From New York Times

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

The final season is as much Allam’s as it is Evans’s, with the stolid, old-school Thursday struggling in his roles as cop, husband, father and, to Morse, surrogate dad.

From New York Times

Although many disliked the building’s brooding, stolid architecture, the Breuer came to be considered the ideal space in which to show 20th and 21st century art and sculpture.

From New York Times