Celebrating its 18th birthday, this year's V line-up reads like a typical, if solidly suburban, teenage house party playlist.
It can age, 10 to 20 years, D'Agata points out, but without much development: it tends to plateau, if solidly.
Even if one solidly supports each of these policies, the lack of national debate over what even a fraction of the costs might mean for deficit reduction or other programs we have squeezed, or neglected, is striking.
Which raises an obvious question: If a solidly Democratic state, grappling with rising climate dangers and driven by anti-Trump fervor, still can't push a carbon tax past the finish line what are the odds any US state can, much less the country as a whole?
When the season began, defending champions LA started cautiously, if more solidly than their poor start the previous season, but the loss of David Beckham and the early absence of Landon Donovan on his infamous sabbatical, told on a side in transitional mode.
But the conversation will only be virtuous if it is solidly based in facts, laws and principles, and if it is conducted with honesty about the effects of past and proposed courses of action.
No ifs, no buts, just solidly with the world.
He is, if anything, more solidly empedestaled than Columbus.
Cai bien has been created primarily by Vietnamese composers trained solidly, if not solely, in the Western classical music tradition.
"Even if this was solidly true, which in my view it isn't, it wouldn't prove that caffeine has a memory-enhancing property.
Exports have kept our economy growing solidly, if not strongly, but the concerns of China's economic stability will continue to worry investors.
