stolid
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Her painting is a stolid assemblage of horizontal bands, stacked confidently on top of one another, the weight of the structure seeming to make those on top begin to dissolve into those below.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
They have sometimes been, by turns, stolid, corrupt and ineffectual, but virtually any semblance of organization is better than nothing, because non-union workers don’t strike.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023
He’s packed on weight for the role, and he gives the character a stolid, tamped-down physicality, but he also lets you see the eddies of anger and frustration raging under the character’s skin.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023
Italian football back then was highly strategic and fundamentally defensive - entertainment value was compromised by stolid pragmatism.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023
I follow the curve around the Parliament Building with its form of a squatting Victorian dowager, darkish pink, skirts huffed out, stolid.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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