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Definition of Stolidity

Stolidity
Stolidity Sto*lid"i*ty, n. [L. stoliditas.] The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. --Bentley.

Meaning of Stolidity from wikipedia

- The stolid flycatcher (Myiarchus stolidus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica. Its...
- Ebert wrote that "Ulu Grosbard's The Deep End of the Ocean is a painfully stolid movie that lumbers past emotional issues like a wrestler in a cafeteria...
- to the San Diego Union-Tribune, "Peter Sarsgaard is appealingly level, a stolid straight-shooter as Lane". A reviewer from the Chicago Tribune noted that...
- percussionist, handpicked, one ****umes, for his ability to supply a plodding, stolid, rock-solid bottom—no one has ever accused Led Zeppelin of swinging." In...
- fellow travellers.: 37  Stereotyped characters abound (the femme fatale, the stolid policeman, the devoted servant, the dull colonel), but these may be subverted...
- one's bankruptcy published, as in the classic ten-line poem comparing the stolid tenant farmer of 1722 to the lavishly spending faux-genteel farmers of 1822:...
- love with his wife, but they had a very complex relationship. He was a stolid and sober man, a political conservative who was still guided by his mother...
- Dr Strangelove ever before. All the gods before whom the America of the stolid, paranoid 50s had genuflected—the Bomb, the Pentagon, the National Security...
- Washington Post wrote that Sevigny "is something of a closed book, delivering a stolid performance that can be read as either strong-willed or stonyhearted." Sevigny...
- downcast spirits, comforts the sad, rouses the apathetic, stirs up the stolid, cheers the sick, restrains the headstrong, brings lovers together and keeps...