For a moment he sounds almost camp, but mainly he is solid, talking slowly in a deep voice, sometimes swearing for emphasis, rounding off his sentences "and so on and so forth".
The deal lets both parties walk away with a solid talking point: Democrats can celebrate that they prevented an expansion of Hyde, while Republicans can say they didn't cave on restricting abortion funds.
The Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, insisted that no matter what is left undone, the session has ended and his troops will return only when there is something solid to talk about.
John Simmonds, head of finance at Kent county council, said he concluded that the UK arm of Santander was "rock solid" after talks with the bank following the council's decision to stop using the bank for overnight deposits.
A year ago, she could not stand, play with other children, eat solids or talk.
Indeed, Trump, despite a solid dose of talk about wall-building and oil-seizing, left most of the job of attacking his opponents to the others.
"We have to make sure that the foundation of the company is solid before we talk about adding a second story," Mr. Denson said.
The Obama open hand always held fast to its unwaveringly solid determination that talk is cheap unless it corresponds to activity that eases tensions, promotes trade, solidifies political borders and the integrity of sovereignty that comes with their clarity and defensibility.
Have some solid goals to talk about.
Being quiet doesn't mean not talking — it means using words succinctly, asking interesting questions, and making solid points worth talking about.
