Word: stolidness
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...towns McCloskey has visited three and four times, people still ask reporters: "Who was that? McCloskey? What's he running for?" After quick introductions, one gas-station attendant asked Ashbrook: "What brings you up to this neck of the woods?" Ashbrook's purpose was explained. The stolid Yankee reply: "Oh, really...
...Sitzungen (cabaret entertainments) were sold out; dances were crowded, and in normally somnolent Bonn the federal government and city administration started closing down last week as celebrating civil servants took to the streets. Seeking to explain the difference, some Germans theorized that wine-drinking Rhinelanders are more lighthearted than stolid, beer-drinking Bavarians. Mimchner who did not accept that theory could take comfort from another explanation: that their city is more sophisticated than the industrial centers along the Rhine...
...Oriental dance in Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or, she even looks sexy in a Mae West sort of way. Sutherland (with an equally tall and outsize frame) has worked hard to make herself into an acceptable actress, but her stage temperament is essentially a stolid one. Usually she gets her best effects by wearing flowing capes and tunics and standing magisterially still whenever...
...house is unprepossessing, a small, white wooden frame structure in a quiet Salt Lake City suburb. The family patriarch, a stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches...
...before he can act on these, or any other issues for that matter, Bok must decide for himself the figure he will carve as President of the University. From this figure will evolve an administration certain to depart from the stolid ways of the Pusey years; new faces, new attitudes will soon supplant...