stolidity

• “It had a certain Dutch stolidity in its manner of calmly and bumpily surmounting such portions of the landscape as happened in its way.”

  African Camp Fires

• “These frontier towns inured to the clash of war go about their business with what one might call stolidity if there were not finer, and truer, names for it.”

  Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

• “She paused, waiting for some acknowledgment of his interest, but not getting it, went on bitterly enough, for his stolidity was a very great mystery to her:”

  Dark Hollow

• “In early works we find sometimes no expression at all, or an apparent stolidity which is really the absence of expression; in the archaic smile we see an attempt to enliven the face, and possibly also, as we have noticed, to express and even to induce the benignity of the deity.”

  Religion and Art in Ancient Greece

• “After making to the various visible forms of nature a solemn promise to be damned, that gentleman resumed the air of stolidity which is supposed to be appropriate to a state of alert military attention.”

  The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

• “I think this arose not more from its immensity than from the kind of stolidity to which I have alluded.”

  In the Wilderness

• “She was pretty, and slender, and willowy; without the massive face and temperamental stolidity of the average squaw.”

  THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT

• “According to Griscom, Komura's "Oriental stolidity dissolved in a shout of laughter," and Jack London got his camera back.”

  JACK LONDON'S WAR

• “Or was hers the stubborn obstinacy of the ox? the fixity of purpose of the balky horse? the stolidity of the self-willed peasant-mind?”

  SAMUEL

• “Hers was a virgin birth, from nothing, catalyzed by the assiduous application of Imortél's paintbrush as well as his soul; and now only the stolidity of a master could dispel an incipient bloom of rapture threatening to mar his work with officious haste.”

  Fictionaut: Magnum Opus, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man

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