s having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf her face showed nothing but stolid indifference
Spy Scandal Fells Luxembourg’s Prime Minister The actions of Luxembourg's secret service have sent shock waves through the political establishment of a nation best known for its stolid calm.
July 12, 2013 - New York Times
Edward Bates in Los Angeles Times Bates wrote in August 1864, "that I should live to see such abject fear -- such small stolid indifference to duty -- such open contempt of Constitution and law -- and such profound ignorance of policy and prudence!"
Thomas Carlyle in BusinessWeek Little wonder the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle described Malthus as "Dreary, stolid, dismal, without hope for this world or the next."
Gore Vidal in Los Angeles Times At best, Lessing's prose is stolid and slow and a bit flat-footed,Gore Vidal wrote in the New York Review of Books. "Why does Doris Lessing -- one of the half-dozen most interesting minds to have chosen to write fiction in English in this...