Example sentences for: stolid

How can you use “stolid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has been, in short, an admirable public servant, a solid, stolid senator.

  • Reviewers find Léger less the "stolid, ruminative" Marxist and more the witty "virtuoso" (Robert Hughes, Time ). While they still celebrate his depictions of the early-20 th -century city, they now also notice his little-known forays into Dadaism and Fauvism.

  • (I hadn't grasped how square and stolid the framing was until last night, when, while filming a concert by the pathetic dregs of a real '70s band, the camera tilted sardonically, just for an instant.)

  • After panning Demi Moore's performances in The Scarlet Letter and Striptease as stolid and humorless, most critics say that this movie revives her career.

  • Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.


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