stolidness

Example Sentences

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It's Hepburn as Linda, Julia's aimless sister, the black sheep of the family, who perfectly comprehends Johnny's aversion to business, security and stolidness, his aversion to America itself.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013

She got so she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

With brutish stolidness I plodded ever on, almost like a walking machine, sometimes nodding in sleep while I helped the dogs, or manouvred the sledge over an ice-ridge, pushing or pulling.

From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

She had felt, many times before, a slowing up in conversations—she had seen the bitterness drain from Ella's face, the stolidness from Bennie's.

From The Island of Faith by Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth)

Baffled, powerless, his wonted stolidness left him, and he cast his eyes here and143 there with a sort of challenge born of despair and desperation.

From Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)