Word: stolidness
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...Edmund Wilson, it is "the wit and fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London lodgings and lonely country estates." Meyer views the basis of Holmes' immortality simply as the story of a friendship: the intellectual rationalist and his immortal physician-confidant, a man of infinite joust, the stolid, substantial, late great doctor... Sigmund Freud...
...rough, vulgar, vandalistic, stupid, even murderous. British supporters have become notorious for their train ripping, window smashing, bovver booting, bottle fights. Recent British fan conduct in Holland led to Times editorials and high-level apologies on behalf of the whole British nation. Volatile Latins, though less ebullient than the stolid Anglo-Saxons, have been known to bite ears off referees...
...Premier submitted her resignation, and by extension that of her entire Cabinet, to President Ephraim Katzir. Many Israelis found it hard to believe that their stolid, iron-willed Premier was actually quitting...
...take the safe, easy approach; and the essays will save many freshmen from silly mistakes. If they do not make the reader stop and wonder, and make that wonder deepen, at least they are free of error and extravagance and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of a sound, stolid commentary. But it is unfortunate that such a distinguished group of contributors was not given a freer hand; I would much rather have heard what Baker or Kermode had to say for themselves than read the views of the less-distinguished critics they quote in the hope of being even-handed...
Equal Reality. Thus every detail of the moldings, mullions and floorboards in The Invisible World, 1954, is rendered with scrupulous, not to say stolid exactitude: it is a real room looking on a real sea in (one imagines) some provincial resort on the Belgian coast. But what is that boulder doing there with every pore and crack of its surface emulated in Magritte's slow, gray pigment to remind us of its equal reality? It is intolerable: no metaphor provides an exit, no rational explanation will do, while the very technique of Magritte's drawing and painting keeps...