Sentence examples for solidly as a from inspiring English sources

She has short brown hair and an open, doughty face, and is built as solidly as a hydrant.

He is built as solidly as a trash compactor, and his resting expression is one of irritable disappointment.

His second movie, "Before Night Falls" in 2000, about the gay Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, established him solidly as a filmmaker, earning an Oscar nomination for its star, Javier Bardem.

Android will lead due to install base, iOS will come second, and Windows Phone will sit solidly as a roadblock to potential rivals.

Elena O'Connor, as Belinda, and Alex Loustion, as the Second Woman, countered Ms. Gaissert's sober portrayal with a conspiratorial girlishness, and sang solidly as well.

One way or another, the other schools will beef up their teams, and the women's game will establish itself even more solidly as an alternative in which fundamentals and team play seem to matter more than they do on the men's side.

Few artists prove that as solidly as El Greco, an artist in time and out of sync at once.

Charles Burns's comics are fluid, smooth and as solidly built as a vintage TV set, but they shudder with the chill of the uncanny.

W. H. Auden, who translated some of his verses, said Mr. Voznesensky knew that a poem was "a verbal artifact" that had to be "as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle".

The argument is expectably framed by Pufendorf's general assumption that such counterproductivity would violate the divine intention of having human actions display a certain "order, decorum, or beauty" (DJN II.1.5; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 138); however, it is solidly based as well on a description of observable human tendencies and behaviors.

And as solidly as he putted today, after getting a new shaft in his putter this week, Duval liked his chances.