Stolid

It seemed impossible that the six students could look any smarter, but they managed it, brandishing their staves with stolid expressions.

He couldn’t have done it, of course, without Jack Leach, the stolid, solid citizen at the other end, who might just have made the most significant one not out in the entire history of the sport.

The actor did at least get a bus license in preparation for the part, which seems fitting for this stolid, workmanlike film.

Young, Michael (1958). p. 13. Young's fictional narrator explains that, on the one hand, the greatest contributor to society is not the "stolid mass" or majority, but the "creative minority" or members of the "restless elite".

Young, Michael (1958). p. 15. On the other hand, he claims that there are casualties of progress whose influence is underestimated and that, from such stolid adherence to natural science and intelligence, arises arrogance and complacency.