All 5 Uses
stolid
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Sister Carrie
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- On every hand, to her fatigued senses, the great business portion grew larger, harder, more stolid in its indifference.†
Chpt 3 *
- The fact that he had suffered this much now rather operated to arouse a stolid determination to stick it out.†
Chpt 41
- With the stolidity and indifference of despair, however, he endured it all, sleeping in an attic at the roof of the house, eating what the cook gave him, accepting a few dollars a week, which he tried to save.†
Chpt 45stolidity = lack of emotion
- The captain remained stolid and determined.†
Chpt 45
- Those who had been waiting before him, but farther away, now drew near, and by a certain stolidity of demeanor, no words being spoken, indicated that they were first.†
Chpt 47stolidity = lack of emotion
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)