I like the idea of a lemony risotto with the stolidness lightened by the citrus flavour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lemon Risotto] Reference

The 6 days to Talitha were livened by Kira's rapid switches of mood and manner, from gamine to queen, welcome to Helva after Theoda's stolidness and as counterpoint to her painful memories of Jennan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship Who Sang]

More than half were apparatchiks who had spoken the appropriate words, filled the necessary quotas, taking what advantages they could, and who had won advancement through a stolidness whose perfection they could display around the table in the Kremlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]

The landscapes in his issue are quite good, as they convey the stolidness of Victorian London well, and although his characters are decent, for this book, where Nixey established a sort of fluidity to them, it's jarring to see them when Dalrymple draws them, as they seem far more blocky and grounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sororities, Satan, Sea-farers, Slatterns, Satire, Spies, and other graphic novel goodness! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Behind all her desire was an almost Puritan stolidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Selves] Reference

His quiet, impersonal manner never suggested stolidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Timber A Story of the Northwest] Reference

He had been greatly agitated, but his wonted stolidness was returning now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer] Reference

"There isn't any answer," said Tom, with his usual exasperating stolidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade at Temple Camp] Reference

"Did we swim across the lake or didn't we?" he demanded of Archer, roused out of his wonted stolidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade with the Boys Over There] Reference

Baffled, powerless, his wonted stolidness left him, and he cast his eyes here and there with a sort of challenge born of despair and desperation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer] Reference

She had felt, many times before, a slowing up in conversations -- she had seen the bitterness drain from Ella's face, the stolidness from Bennie's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island of Faith] Reference

His wife represents the stolidness of the American Dream realized (sic) something to which he cannot reconcile himself, even resisting the good fortune that comes his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

Tom's customary stolidness disappeared in the face of this great mirthful drive and he sat on the edge of the hatch, his white jacket conspicuous by contrast, and smiled broadly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade on a Transport] Reference

With brutish stolidness I plodded ever on, almost like a walking machine, sometimes nodding in sleep while I helped the dogs, or manouvred the sledge over an ice-ridge, pushing or pulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purple Cloud] Reference

It was an exterior grief that found expression only in words, gestures and excited walking, his interior continued its old stolidness, as if the certainty of that death had congealed it in peaceful indifference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)] Reference

Olaf's features were rudimentary: the thing one noticed was the face itself, wide and flat and pale, devoid of any expression, betraying his fifty years as little as it betrayed anything else, and powerful by reason of its very stolidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference

I fancy it is this stolidness which has given travellers an impression of dignity; in their quieter moments they remind one of very placid sheep, for they have not half the energy of pigs, which in Spain at least are restless and spirited creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia] Reference

And as night came on the more constant callings of the lookouts from their wind-swept perches and the answering call through the darkness had an ominous and portentous sound which shook even Tom's wonted stolidness and made him feel apprehensive and restless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade with the Colors] Reference

Mole watched him in silence for a moment or two, then he turned on his heel and shuffled off through the ante-room into the kitchen beyond, where presently he sat down, squatting in an angle by the stove, and started with his usual stolidness to chop wood for the citizeness 'fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference