So Chernomyrdin's stolidity is a strength, the argument runs, and he can pull support from former Gaidar supporters who are unhappy.
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I have a hard time accepting that this is good faith anymore, since it has all the appearance of a profound and sullen stolidity.
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The songs buzzed and droned, rising from monotone melodies to understatedly catchy choruses, with their surly attitude belied by the stolidity of the music.
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Gore, whose perceived stolidity and goody-goody nature plagued his presidential quest before he started to loosen up, is actually the wilder of the two drivers.
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At the same time Pius VII's stolidity in the face of humiliation began a revival of personal popularity for the pope that has since characterized Catholicism ."
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All he has lacked is public support, usually drawing but single-digit ratings in polls, and his stolidity and manling of Russian grammar and syntax are legendary.
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But Republicans, too, are heavily invested in balancing the budget, and, compared with the alternatives, stolidity is a risk the administration seems happy enough to take.
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For all his stolidity, there's something sad and passive about Lefty's acceptance of his assigned place in the trenches, never in the officers'tent.
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He was described by Commodore William Goodenough as having " an imperturbability that no circumstances could ruffle ", although others ascribed this stolidity to simply a lack of initiative.
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Franz has the stubborn stolidity Donny requires while Hoffman, looking a lot like Ratso Rizzo 30 years later, is all jittery nervous energy and false, bum's-rush bravado.
