Bill Clinton, political tacticians told them, lacked Powell's particular strengths: his maturity, his solidity in foreign affairs; in a center-right country, the scenario went, Powell might beat the incumbent.
A being that touches itself experiences a sensation of solidity in its hand and an "answering" sensation of solidity in the part of its body that it touches, thereby experiencing itself as being solid, as being two instances of solidity, and as being two instances of solidity outside of one another.
Chelsea look to have all the right moving parts now, from a miserly defence and a midfield that mixes creativity and solidity in equal measure to a potent striker in Diego Costa.
Yet his compositions have a blocky solidity in contrast to the activities they represent.
Arsenal, who led the League from mid-November to late January, showed qualities of teamwork based on a traditional solidity in defence which might have prolonged their challenge but for injuries to key players, most notably Paul Davis.
More than any other work, it catches a sense of solidity in flux: the subject's solemn, half-formed features seem to stir behind an opaque membrane, like a fetus in the womb.
Espérance de Tunis finished ahead of Mazembe in this season's Champions League group stages but, when they met again in the first leg of the final seven weeks after N'Diaye's arrival, the Congolese destroyed them 5-0, and then showed commendable solidity in the second leg to cap a 6-1 aggregatriumphmph.
He gave us a lot of solidity in the number three spot," Broad said.
There is so little solidity in prison, so little to depend on, that a picture like this or a cell that's mine, that's home, that I can always return to is a treasure.
