stolidness

From the opening, Mr. Boom’s direction is uniformly uninspired: A reporter’s prison interview with Shakur frames the movie’s first half, and Mr. Boom blocks and shoots his scenes with dismal stolidness.

“I just felt like she had this frank stolidness,” Gerwig explains to W Magazine of the heroine’s appeal.

Gordon trusts her family's middle-class stolidness to ward off evil, but she also embraces danger, hanging out with her friends in a massive sewer pipe.

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

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.