| Mashed potato is simply dull, but then the stolidness of Delia culinary innovation is her genius. |
| Updike's prose, with its plush attention to detail, is a lament for this sad stolidness. |
| Under all his stolidness he is every inch a man, as I have said many times before. |
| But it's Mr. Sullivan's casually electrifying turn that allays any potential stolidness to a definably well-made play that confines the action to the domestic arena even as it aims a poison dart squarely at society. |
| In the lead, the muscled-up actor has never looked better, and even his stolidness works here because it gives her something to play off, to tease. |
| But not even Gergiev's energy and Borodin's orchestral palette could disguise the piece's tendency to stolidness. |
