stolidly

Saunders stood stolidly to attention .

He stolidly refused to show any emotion.

She stolidly faced the criticism without flinching.

The stolidly built man remained calm in the face of danger.

The stolidly silent audience made the speaker nervous.

He stolidly carried out his duties without complaint.

The stolidly written report lacked any emotion.

She stolidly endured the pain without shedding a tear.

The stolidly designed building lacked character.

He stolidly faced the difficult decision ahead of him.

The stolidly dressed man seemed unapproachable.

" No, Sir, " said Sergeant Dankwaerts stolidly.

Spencer got out and marched stolidly across the fiagstones to the portico of the house.

" Lavinia has no trials, " said Ermengarde, stolidly, " and she is horrid enough" .

Biff waited stolidly, his elbow resting on the counter and his thumb mashing the tip of his long nose.

After a brief recap of the murders and the political scandal they caused, the piece veered back into Macarthur's stolidly sensible view of the lockdown.

The ambulance men hurrying here and there among the prostrate forms frequently stepped on wounded men, so thickly packed were the rows, and those trodden upon stared stolidly up, waiting their turn.

Recently I read this sentence in a forthcoming novel I prefer not to name: “He sat stolidly beside the corpse, waiting for the medical examiner as patiently as a man waiting for a turkey sandwich.”

Ned Winsett had those flashes of penetration;they were the most interesting thing about him, and always made Archer wonder why they had allowed him to accept failure so stolidly at an age when most men are still struggling.

And his attention was constantly wandering: there were fruit trees trained on the walls of the vicarage, and a long twig beat now and then against the windowpane; sheep grazed stolidly in the field beyond the garden.