All 9 Uses of
stolid
in
Main Street
- But so few of these stolid worlds wanted to be moved.†
Chpt 1 *
- But there was also a stranger, a thick tall man of thirty-six or —seven, with stolid brown hair, lips used to giving orders, eyes which followed everything good-naturedly, and clothes which you could never quite remember.†
Chpt 2
- They were so stolid.†
Chpt 3
- When the sheep had been penned up, in the darkness the timorous wolves crept into the living-room, squealing, halting, thrown out of their habit of stolidity by the strangeness of advancing through nothingness toward a waiting foe, a mysterious foe which expanded and grew more menacing.†
Chpt 6
- And when you say the wives of the doctors share these jealousies——Mrs. McGanum and I haven't any particular crush on each other; she's so stolid.†
Chpt 13
- It proved that what he wanted was a house exactly like Sam Clark's, which was exactly like every third new house in every town in the country: a square, yellow stolidity with immaculate clapboards, a broad screened porch, tidy grass-plots, and concrete walks; a house resembling the mind of a merchant who votes the party ticket straight and goes to church once a month and owns a good car.†
Chpt 24
- She was trying to feed her illusion of adventure by staring at unfamiliar houses …. drab cottages, artificial stone bungalows, square painty stolidities with immaculate clapboards and broad screened porches and tidy grass-plots.†
Chpt 24
- He stolidly moved to the back of the car, thrust in his hand, muttered, "Good night—Carol.†
Chpt 33
- Her defiance ran out in face of his immense flaxen stolidity.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(stolid) having or revealing little emotion -- sometimes indicating qualities of not changing or being dependable
or (much more rarely):
of an object: not interesting -- often large and unmoving