Iggy Pop

Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.

American Musician

Richard Jefferies

Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

English Writer

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

American Clergyman

Matthew Macfadyen

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

English Actor

Use 'stolid' to describe someone who stays calm and doesn't show feelings in stressful situations.

Composure Under Pressure

'Stolid' implies not reacting with visible emotions where one might be expected to.

No Emotional Reaction

Be aware that a 'stolid' person may be wrongly perceived as insensitive or uncaring.

Misinterpretation Risk

'Stolid' can describe events or speeches that lack energy or enthusiasm, resulting in boredom.

Lack of Excitement

Too many references to 'stolid' characters or settings can make writing seem dull itself.

Avoid Overusing

Use 'stolid' to create a contrast with more dynamic or interesting elements in a comparison.

Creating Contrast

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