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.
If he's a captain of industry he can arrange to address the American Club of Monte Carlo or the St . Moritz Chamber of Commerce and just by giving a good solid talk on the advantages of free enterprise as opposed to the evils of creeping socialism, his whole trip will be paid for by Uncle Sam.
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.
I'm talking solid, practical, smart advice.
In the first Transformers flick, he and Voight and John Turturro ("just a solid, solid dude") continued that education, talking about the Method and the people they'd worked with.
Now they hit the table with a thud, frozen solid.Mr Rich kept talking.
But today the first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart is walking, beginning to eat solid food, exercising lightly, talking a blue streak and joking with his doctors and nurses as he gains strength in a recovery that continues to exceed the expectations of his doctors at Jewish Hospital here.
This is supposedly "solid" ground we're talking about.
The list didn't take long to fill in: walking, potty-training, talking, eating solid food, success at school, romantic relationships, driving, first job, ad nauseum.
We're talking a solid three, maybe four fingers up and down.
