All 5 Uses
stolid
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- I stood beneath his photograph with my brief case in hand and smiled triumphantly into his stolid black peasant's face.†
Chpt 1 *
- Just as I got inside the door a stolid-faced man gripped me by the arm and looked stonily into my eyes.†
Chpt 3
- It was the stolid-faced man.†
Chpt 3
- There at the head of the platform with its pulpit and rail of polished brass are the banked and pyramided heads of the student choir, faces composed and stolid above uniforms of black and white; and above them, stretching to the ceiling, the organ pipes looming, a gothic hierarchy of dull gilded gold.†
Chpt 5
- Their faces were noncommittal, stolid.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)