| His empire is now hollowed out and vacant as the once ornate bank that epitomised confidence, stolidity and trust in the Irish banking sector. |
| Rutford, for instance, interpreted this stolidity as unintelligence and lack of perception. |
| That contrast between flashy inspiration and stolidity may now apply to the world's big central banks. |
| He had the look of a man whose original rustic stolidity had been supercharged with cockney cunning. |
| The 67-year-old Mr Obeid's gruff, jowly and sunken-eyed persona projects an image of stolidity rather than dynamism. |
| Her stolidity of manner and her logic, ponderous and irresistible, had their effect. |
