He remains a model of how to combine solid technique, discipline and a passion for singing.
It would have a strong claim to join a successor currency union, perhaps a 'northern' euro with Germany and others that believe in solid fiscal discipline.
That meant strengthening the solid legal disciplines and reviving the weaker ones.
"Rock-solid fiscal discipline" is how Ralph Goodale, the finance minister, sums up the budget he presented in March.
"We looked more solid, more disciplined, the work ethic was there, and while we didn't create too many opportunities, we were reasonably comfortable.
Waugh viewed existence with a Manichean eye, and feared for himself and his soul in a fallen and still falling world: the Church, Hastings points out, 'offered a safe and solid structure, a discipline, an ordered way of life which, once adopted, held out a clear prospect of salvation'.
Disciplining your diet and exercise shows that you're capable of being a solid and disciplined person in other ways, too.
Rodgers himself was always the consummate theatre professional, one who believed that he owed his success not to genius but to solid craftsmanship and disciplined hard work: as Secrest takes us through one brilliant Broadway show after another, you never doubt that it was all worthwhile.
The Donger need food!" As these lesser movies reveal in a hundred different ways, Hughes was not a great believer in restraint, so the solid construction and disciplined storytelling he brought to The Breakfast Club seem are both surprising and refreshing.
