Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet STOLID

Definition av STOLID

1. lugn, likgiltig, uttryckslös
2. tråkig, ointressant

Exempel på hur man kan använda STOLID i en mening

• The stolid German, the vibratile Italian! Yet fantasy wins, even if brewed in a homely Teutonic kettle.
• It's still the definitive account of that day of slaughter, and the most unsentimental yet heartbreaking appreciation of the British infantrymen – stolid, sardonic, comradely – who fought and died in the Great War.
• "Meeting of the Board" - another satire, this one set in a future in which American industry has been badly compromised by workers purchasing full joint-stock ownership of their companies, mismanaging them into a state of stolid uncompetitiveness.
• They had met during Patrick's visit to his homeland of Trinidad, where the middle-aged couple enjoyed a steamy affair, much the contrary to Yolande's unhappy and stolid marriage to a strict, uptight, and religious Victor (Ben Thomas), whose traditional beliefs objectify women to the purpose of bearing and raising children.
• In the absence of Haase, Schenck and Flegel worked together to help wounded people entering the bunker complex, and Flegel is described as "stolid woman who does not flinch as she dresses the hideous injuries of the wounded".
• Surely the time has come when a film like this should be turned over to the alienists for comment; as entertainment its stolid acting, writing, presentation and direction could hardly be more preclusive.
• Eschewing detailed historical research, Cotton opted to hew closer to the version of the Gunfight which had passed into contemporary mythology, with Wyatt Earp as a stolid enforcer of the law and Doc Holliday as a rascally anti-hero.
• Lee Thompson has taken the opportunity to illustrate the reams of extravagant dialogue with stolid, pastoral views of the neighbourhood (and, as it turned out, Ireland, which often and unaccountably deputises for the real thing).
• A reporter from the Cumberland Pacquet described him as "a stolid, impassive, and greatly bored youth".
• Moreover, she receives the aid of a myriad group of others, including: the Wildmage Daine; Daine's lover, the great mage Numair; Neal's own father, the healer Duke Baird of Queenscove; and a stolid, unusual boy named Tobe who, after Kel frees him from indentured servitude, dedicates himself to watching out for her.
• Going to the university at the suggestion of Tamalpais football coach Roy Riegels, Chapman starred in football for the Golden Bears under head coach Stub Allison, where he was first nicknamed "Sleepy Sam" due to his stolid temperament.
• the slattern conceived by Merimée is a lacquered and lifeless creature in this stagey and stolid charade.
• Along with the victims and their families, she pleads with her husband, but, with the king's stolid rejections, Eustachio steps forward to declare that the six must now accept their fate and say their farewells to their families.
• Her books were also notable and influential through championing of what Bruce held up as the quintessentially Australian Bush values of independence, hard physical labour (for women and children as well as men), mateship, the ANZAC spirit and Bush hospitality against more decadent, self-centred or stolid urban and British values.
• Other active participants were the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, members of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, and four stolid and kilted bagpipers in British 19th-century army regalia (they were members of the 48th Highlanders of Canada Pipes and Drums).
• Greenstein and Dale Anderson praised Fillmore for his resoluteness in his early months in office, noting that Fillmore "is typically described as stolid, bland, and conventional, but such terms underestimate the forcefulness evinced by his handling of the Texas–New Mexico border crisis, his decision to replace Taylor's entire cabinet, and his effectiveness in advancing the Compromise of 1850".

• In the volume titled Incredible Adventures occur some of the finest tales which the author has yet produced, leading the fancy to wild rites on nocturnal hills, to secret and terrible aspects lurking behind stolid scenes, and to unimaginable vaults of mystery below the sands and pyramids of Egypt; all with a serious finesse and delicacy that convince where a cruder or lighter treatment would merely amuse.

• Bistolida stolida, common name the stolid cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.
• Though Blaisedell at first manages to assert his authority with his stolid demeanor and expert gunmanship, Abe McQuown and his troublesome gang of cowboys seek to antagonize him.
• in its stolid, old-fashioned way, it satisfies an appetite, especially among mature auds, for dialogue- and character-driven drama that gets into issues without getting too bogged down in verbiage.

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