stolidity

IPA: stʌɫˈɪdʌti

Examples of "stolidity" in Sentences

I think this arose not more from its immensity than from the kind of stolidity to which I have alluded.
She was pretty, and slender, and willowy; without the massive face and temperamental stolidity of the average squaw.
According to Griscom, Komura's "Oriental stolidity dissolved in a shout of laughter," and Jack London got his camera back.
Or was hers the stubborn obstinacy of the ox? the fixity of purpose of the balky horse? the stolidity of the self-willed peasant-mind?
It had a certain Dutch stolidity in its manner of calmly and bumpily surmounting such portions of the landscape as happened in its way.
These frontier towns inured to the clash of war go about their business with what one might call stolidity if there were not finer, and truer, names for it.
She paused, waiting for some acknowledgment of his interest, but not getting it, went on bitterly enough, for his stolidity was a very great mystery to her:
After making to the various visible forms of nature a solemn promise to be damned, that gentleman resumed the air of stolidity which is supposed to be appropriate to a state of alert military attention.
In early works we find sometimes no expression at all, or an apparent stolidity which is really the absence of expression; in the archaic smile we see an attempt to enliven the face, and possibly also, as we have noticed, to express and even to induce the benignity of the deity.