0 in a way that is calm and does not show emotion or excitement:
"I don't imagine, sir. I look for facts," Rose replied stolidly.
The house was a large, stolidly unattractive red-brick mansion.
It is as stolidly bourgeois a town as you could hope to find.
The book represents many hours spent poring over stolidly turgid scientific writing searching for distasteful traces of racial self-importance.
It is better, after all, to stand stolidly by the truth.
We are rather inclined to go slowly, steadily, and stolidly, step by step, but there are occasions when we have streaks of genius.
I agree that to do that is always something, and the only way to get to the top is to go stolidly on, surmounting shoulder after shoulder.