How to Use stolid in a Sentence
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In a West Wing run by a novice clown, the stolid hack is king.
—The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
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Not space, and not stolid form, as is often the case in Western art.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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Such a legacy may not be strange for a stolid telecoms firm.
—The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
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This happens again when Quavo shows up to rap a stolid verse.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2017
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There is a charge running through the place that is at odds with the stolid, unchanging poverty along the street outside.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Aug. 2015
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But Nézet-Séguin kept the textures light; even at its mightiest, the sound was never stolid.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
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And finally, there are new ideas in a staid, stolid system.
—James McAuley, Washington Post, 17 June 2017
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No, not devoted, because that made her sound stupid and stolid.
—Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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There are Grevy's zebras, elands, stolid buffaloes in a dry wallow—and always Mount Kenya, piled high with clouds just now, like curls of meringue.
—Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
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The current uncertainty and widespread panic would shake even the most stolid of hearts.
—Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2020
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Roxanne, a lover of poetry, craves love letters, but the stolid Christian is no writer.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
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A determined but stolid activist, Fawcett played a crucial role in the suffrage movement.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Apr. 2017
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Just three years later, the brand was reborn again as the ultimate expression of stolid S-class prestige.
—Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
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The story is ambiguous, but the image draws our eye from inside to outside, from the delicate wild bird, through doors and windows to the stolid mountains.
—Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
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What isn’t great is seeing Pitt wobble between movie-star stolid and bad-actor wooden.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
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The tech giant is facing the greatest legal threat in its history, and hopes the stolid approach of Kent Walker, its top lawyer, will once again prevail.
—Nico Grant, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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Stolid farmers’ wives no longer gibbered and convulsed; New England skies were no longer vexed nightly by the aerial traffic of witches and demons.
—Adam Goodheart, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2015
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The stolid five-story structure at 220 E. Chicago Ave. was based on the traditional idea of the museum as a temple and treasure house.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
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Experts had all sorts of stolid objections or arguments in favor of it.
—Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
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But this innate talent was treated as an affront, rather than a gift, by a family that could have used her to burnish its own stolid image.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
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Pozharskaya has a natural intensity that the film, with all its stolid sincerity, could have used more of.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
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Portraits dominate the side panels: Renée, an everyday Madonna with their infant daughter on her lap on the left; on the right, the artist, bearded and stolid in work boots and a blue velvet shirt.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
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The ideology behind Bush’s war may have been cooked up in the stolid bureaucratic world of think-tank Washington.
—New York Times, 8 June 2022
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Melissa Jacques gives Margaret a stolid steadiness that grounds the proceedings in essential ways.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2022
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While the upright and stolid external shape encourages jokes, there is really nothing at all that is funny about a Saab.
—Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 23 Jan. 2023
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Though both have been working on pop's front lines, this project didn't come completely out of nowhere: the two have longstanding connections to stolid, rootsier forms of music.
—Elias Leight, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2017
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The inherent tension engulfs: between a ring of stolid black boxes on stands and the deeply humane and emotional voices streaming from them.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
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Perhaps its rightful home is streaming, but that’s just a way of saying that in its stolid and forbidding way, it seems destined to be tossed, like everything else, into the vast sea of content.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023
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Meet Hollywood’s new quarterback, more matinee usher than matinee idol, a stolid bit of sturdy known as Matthew Stafford.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
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Baseball offers a more stolid form of entertainment that doesn’t lend itself to hoopla as readily.
—Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
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