His instincts, in retrospect, seem to have been solid, in fact.
He's so solid, in fact, that no Republican has announced a run against him.
Although he had considered himself "a naturalist of the usual type, trying merely to accumulate specimens and facts" during his early career, he later began to write factual material "in the form of romantic stories fiction in the form of presentation, but solid in fact in their basis and their message".
That which appears solid is in fact relatively weightless.
They appear solid but in fact are not; they are stacked and on the verge of collapse.
"In 2008, Lehman executives kept telling investors its financial position was solid when, in fact, the opposite was true," the lawsuit said.
Holden had several other offers -- solid ones, in fact -- including one for four years from Sporting Braga in Portugal and another from his hometown team, Aberdeen.
The assemblage of walls "looks rock solid, but in fact it's a stage set," said Thomas Michie, a senior curator of European decorative arts and sculpture.
He might have been drawing snow during real-life summer, rain during a drought, or the city familiar and solid when, in fact, it was being rebuilt after an earthquake.
The induction of DNA hypomethylation appears to require lower doses of azacitidine than does cytotoxicity [ 22] and may modulate the resistance mechanisms in patients with platinum-refractory advanced solid tumors; in fact, azacitidine was shown to enhance the sensitivity of platinum-resistant ovarian cancer cells to carboplatin [ 23].
