solid-seeming

While Treslove fiddles around with salt beef sandwiches and klezmer bands, Libor and Finkler find themselves, without the protection of marital and romantic love, cast into a world of such ambiguity and complication that their own identities, initially so solid-seeming, come under threat.

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 2010

Even such a solid-seeming and lasting object as a book will suffer from forces beyond my control.

singapore is slowly eating my books jlundberg 2009

Jasper stood closest to the solid-seeming haze, in its shadow so that his skin did not glitter brilliantly in the sun the way the others did.

Eclipse Meyer, Stephenie 2007

He was an undefined mass, as solid-seeming as rock.

Main Street 2004

Throughout the big top we planned solid-seeming flooring, with a wide centre aisle, firm partition walls, and tented ceilings in each 'room' of pale peach-coloured thin pleated silk-like material.

Decider Francis, Dick 1993

Each 'room' now had a high-rising Moorish-looking tented ceiling of pleated peach'silk 'above white solid-seeming walls, some of which were in fact taut whitened canvas laced onto poles.

Decider Francis, Dick 1993

As if the solid-seeming earth beneath her feet had abruptly split apart, hurling her downward into a pit of nothingness.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

The solid-seeming yellow tinge had been struck through with tendrils of a pale green; such a hue the land-bound world could never produce.

The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

But it was more solid-seeming in the twilight than before.

Here Abide Monsters Norton, Andre 1973

I gave a last look into the mirror, to reassure myself that my creation was as solid-seeming as ever, and knew a spark of triumph when I saw that it was, even though I might later have to depend upon Eet to maintain it.

Uncharted Stars Norton, Andre 1969