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• 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

• The bureaucracy's unemotional, stolid stance has made people remark that bureaucracy should be totally revamped.
• They have stolid dignity yet are not bereft of a wry sense of humor.
• As people bayed for the blood of the wrong-doers, the victims themselves remained surprisingly stolid.

• impassive

News & Articles

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• 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

Quotes

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• 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...