| The 67-year-old Mr Obeid's gruff, jowly and sunken-eyed persona projects an image of stolidity rather than dynamism. |
| After a time she left rattling avenues and passed between rows of houses with sternness and stolidity stamped upon their features. |
| Her independence of mind has never had a chance to flourish, and she beautifully portrays her tentative nature with a mixture of stolidity and veiled wit. |
| His empire is now hollowed out and vacant as the once ornate bank that epitomised confidence, stolidity and trust in the Irish banking sector. |
| Performance-related pay, introduced in the 1990s, means the hierarchy is slightly less rigid than in the 19th century, when Bismarck complained about the stolidity of German officials. |
| The perpetrators' faces had the fleshy stolidity of candlewax. |
