Thesaurus / stolidity

stolidity

How to use stolidity in a sentence

He looked eagerly into Dom Gillian's eyes, but the old man's face might have been a mask in its impassive stolidity.

THE DOOMSMANVAN TASSEL SUTPHEN

"I don't see why we should be ashamed of our real feelings," she said again, with a sort of sweet stolidity.

EAST ANGELSCONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON

Behind her loomed Wilfred Ames with all the radiance it was possible for his stolidity to express.

He had the look of a man whose original rustic stolidity had been supercharged with cockney cunning.

Whatever in his nature had been unreliable became treacherous; his stolidity became sullenness.

THE DARK STARROBERT W. CHAMBERS

In moral stolidity and the lack of susceptibility he is on a level with the lowest savage.

The earnestness of his expression and pose were a contrast to his usual stolidity and to her apparently callous mood.

LOVE'S USURIESLOUIS CRESWICKE

Somehow their stolidity did not seem reassuring to me, and I accordingly called Walworth on one side.

His small china-blue eyes had begun to glint; otherwise he maintained an air of stolidity as if immune to the outcome.

DESERT DUSTEDWIN L. SABIN

He forced himself to speak with a stolidity that walled in securely his threatening emotions.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985