Sample Sentences for
stolid
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    With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head,  (source)
    stolid = unemotional
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    Above them was the ceiling, and it was the ceiling Laila was drawn to, the dark markings of mold spreading across it like ink on a dress, the crack in the plaster that was a stolid smile or a frown, depending on which end of the room you looked at it from.  (source)
    stolid = unmoving
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    Was I finally a good West Virginian, all stoic and stolid, filled everlastingly to my chin with guilt but not capable of showing it?  (source)
    stolid = revealing little emotion
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    The men walking in front and the laden, stolid women following them like burros.  (source)
    stolid = unemotional
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    "Finch," Mr. Tate said stolidly, "Bob Ewell fell on his knife."  (source)
    stolidly = with little emotion
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    The stolidity with which I received these instructions was, no doubt, rather exasperating: for they were delivered in perfect sincerity; but I believed a person who could plan the turning of her fits of passion to account, beforehand, might, by exerting her will, manage to control herself tolerably, even while under their influence; and I did not wish to 'frighten' her husband, as she said, and multiply his annoyances for the purpose of serving her selfishness.  (source)
    stolidity = lack of emotion
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    She got so she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    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.†  (source)
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    Now Tom shivered from head to heel; for his eye fell upon the stolid face of Injun Joe.  (source)
    stolid = showing little emotion
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    Jonathan Ashby stood stolidly beside Mercy, waiting for his chance to be the rescuer.  (source)
    stolidly = unemotional and dependable
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    Surprising how much like a small, begging child she makes me feel, simply by her scowl, her stolidity; how importunate and whiny.†  (source)
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    for the first time he knew the stolid, stubborn indifference of the inanimate.  (source)
    stolid = unemotional (not movable emotionally)
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    Blore went on stolidly: "If you're speaking the truth-there's only one thing to be done."  (source)
    stolidly = unemotionally
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