These groups of people, they are not the one that wants all the spotlight on them, they are the ones to put their foot solidly on the ground and make concrete results.
There was nobody left to tell. Dumbledore had gone, Hagrid had gone, but he had always expected Professor McGonagall to be there, irascible and inflexible, perhaps, but always dependably, solidly present . . .
He raised his wand and murmured, 'Portus! ' For a moment the kettle trembled, glowing with an odd blue light; then it quivered to rest, as solidly black as ever.
But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back.
We might fairly say that only 1% of all the things we ever worry about seem to reach the levels of awfulness we are solidly and repeatedly convinced, that they possess.
And so in our own lives, we're constantly navigating between the things that are touchstones for us where we feel solidly grounded and the places where we're flying free and there isn't a net under us.
First, the good news: The cases in those nine states have been linked pretty solidly to iceberg lettuce, specifically shredded lettuce sourced from Taylor Farms de Mexico.
On the crest of this wave of vulgarity, Scarlett rode triumphantly, newly a bride, dashingly pretty in her fine clothes, with Rhett's money solidly behind her.
Grisham's make-believe tale is solidly based in a reality he knows, has personally experienced, and which he wrote about with total (almost naive) honesty.
Dumbledore had gone, Hagrid had gone, but he had always expected Professor McGonagall to be there, irascible and inflexible, perhaps, but always dependably, solidly present...