All 5 Uses of
stolid
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He had the square, stolid, stubborn face of a tough freight engineer, rather than a company president; the face of a fighter, with a young, tanned skin and graying hair.†
Chpt 1.4
- No. There was a kind of faint convulsion in the stolid face.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- The owner turned impassively to fill her order; there was, in his stolid indifference, the kind of mercifulness that asks no questions.†
Chpt 1.7
- He was a man in his fifties, with a square, stolid face.†
Chpt 1.7
- It was the stolid Mr. Ward who screamed, "Oh God, no!†
Chpt 1.7
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