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  • Luma stoically refused to acknowledge the equipment problems, at least to her players.   (source)
    stoically = without displaying emotion
  • He bore it all stoically.   (source)
  • The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ.   (source)
  • "The incident has been forgotten, sir," said Pritchard stoically.   (source)
  • Renard walked over, looking him up and down with a stoic expression.   (source)
    stoic = seemingly unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
  • That was why he had sat so stoically in the middle of the flames.   (source)
    stoically = without displaying pain or emotion
  • They did not know if the people of Quang Ngai viewed the war stoically, as it sometimes seemed, or with grief, as it seemed other times, or with bewilderment or greed or partisan fury.   (source)
    stoically = without emotion
  • He will take the insults and abuses stoically so that his children will not have to take them in the future.   (source)
    stoically = without displaying emotion
  • Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.   (source)
    stoicism = to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
  • The peregrines in the cliffs sat stoically, their mutton-chop-whiskers made streaky by the rain and the wet feathers standing upright on their heads.   (source)
    stoically = without displaying emotion
  • With measured stoic gestures she read...   (source)
    stoic = showing little emotion
  • he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.   (source)
    stoicism = the attempt to not be affected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
  • He preserved a stoical and cold attitude.   (source)
    stoical = not showing emotion
  • A memorandum of the wager was at once drawn up and signed by the six parties, during which Phileas Fogg preserved a stoical composure.   (source)
    stoical = seeming unaffected by emotions
  • No wavering took place in his stoical audience.   (source)
    stoical = not showing emotion
  • After that she was silent, burying her anger in a dumb stoicism that she maintained till her death.   (source)
    stoicism = a school of philosophy whose adherents try not to be affected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
  • He was able to reach out and grapple for his son's free hand. Kurt, still stoic ... took it up and tightened his grip gently on the hand of his sister. Soon, everyone in the cellar was holding the hand of another ... Some of them closed their eyes, waiting for their final demise, or hoping for a sign that the raid was finally over.†   (source)
  • In Torrance, Anthony Zamperini remained stoic.†   (source)
  • Yet I saw none of her stoicism, if that's what it was.†   (source)
  • His teachers attributed his stoicism to his lost voice, but Trudy knew that wasn't it.†   (source)
  • A student of both the Stoics and Montaigne, the Count's father believed that our Creator had set aside the morning hours for industry.†   (source)
  • Aunt Wee and Lindsay grew frustrated with me, then worried: You're just so stoic, they said.†   (source)
  • Sorrento's face was a stoic mask.†   (source)
  • Seiler chose a successor, and within two weeks the state of Georgia sent him a new license plate for his red station wagon: UGA V. Blanche Williams, who had been the soul of stoicism throughout her son's ordeal, wore an evening gown and a pink corsage.†   (source)
  • And then the normally stoic anchor added this:†   (source)
  • Skeeter keeps her eyes on the podium, her face stoic and unyielding.†   (source)
  • His smile told me what to do—be patient, endure, maintain hope—and I wondered where it came from with him, this endless stoicism.†   (source)
  • She's decked out in her full uniform again, stoic and alert.†   (source)
  • If he was occasionally capable of being a stoic in the air, he was always a stoic when Mrs. Walker accused him of childish behavior.†   (source)
  • He held the cold, limp hand that had thrown the pitch that had struck out Willie Mays, that had betrayed the old man's stoic ways by giving him a squeeze.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno seemed suddenly stoic.†   (source)
  • She's sitting on her bunk staring stoically at him, like every night Tank falls to the floor and screams as if he's being murdered.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the stoicism of some of the soldiers amazed and even appalled her.†   (source)
  • Carrying the backpack common among Millinery men, wearing a long coat and bracelets, and the top hat he took off only in times of violence, he alone in the crowd remained stoic, alert.†   (source)
  • He remains still, stoic and quiet, as I'm sure he's been trained to do, but fire burns behind his eyes.†   (source)
  • He watched the two men as they surveyed the pad, the surrounding walls, and the assembled group with stoic expressions before standing to either side of the ramp.†   (source)
  • He shoots his eyes up to meet mine and his expression is stoic.†   (source)
  • BEFORE BORIS, I HAD borne my solitude stoically enough, without realizing quite how alone I was.†   (source)
  • He was tough, driven, stoic.†   (source)
  • But he wasn't stoic now.†   (source)
  • My mom carried on like the stoic one; my otherwise stoic dad became the family worrier.†   (source)
  • Stewart, who prided himself on Being Fully in Touch with His Emotions, was the complete polar opposite of my stoic father.†   (source)
  • Besides that, she was so stoic and calm.†   (source)
  • Roy Lee kept a stoic silence.†   (source)
  • He was a stoic, unfeeling, unmoved intellectual who did as he pleased as much as she did all she could to please him.†   (source)
  • She'd stood there, a little girl of nine, stoic and silent and pale, while Miss Milhouse began fussing about fittings for the mourning clothes and the proper dress for the funeral.†   (source)
  • Instead, he tried to embrace a stoic, unfeeling faith...†   (source)
  • His face went stoic again when Bast came back into the room with a basin of water and began to clean him off.†   (source)
  • For so many years, my husband has lauded the emotional solidity of midwesterners: stoic, humble, without affectation!†   (source)
  • Seeing you like this—how they've treated you, and yet you remain stoic—I'm proud of you.†   (source)
  • The minister from Great Britain had survived the odyssey with exemplary stoicism, shooting with his camera the animals they would not allow him to kill with his rifles, and not a night went by that he was not seen in evening dress in the dining room.†   (source)
  • My strong wife bearing the news stoically as her husband lay unconscious on the floor, the nurses trying to revive him with smelling salts.†   (source)
  • it could not be precisely translated into English--and it meant doing what one had to do quietly and with an entirely stoic demeanor.†   (source)
  • Even today we use the term "stoic calm" about someone who does not let his feelings take over.†   (source)
  • He but sat and waited, armored by his perfect stoic fortitude.†   (source)
  • Then he shrugged, exhibiting the stoicism of one conditioned to the caprice of government-supported thieves.†   (source)
  • The piano bore the singer witness, stoic and ironic.†   (source)
  • Circumcision is a trial of bravery and stoicism; no anesthetic is used; a man must suffer in silence.†   (source)
  • Helene took it better than most of our class fellows, stoic and tearless while the rest of us whimpered.†   (source)
  • "It's all right," his wife said, stoic.†   (source)
  • My deep contempt for Levy was not only because I didn't like the way she put herself above others but also because she was the opposite of stoic.†   (source)
  • She said that she thought she was stoic and gave nothing away.†   (source)
  • Captain Call, a Stoic, says nothing about this mishap†   (source)
  • When I found out about him and Marian I felt some element of stoic surrender.†   (source)
  • Allan returned to America, but he was haunted by the memories of those stoic peasant women.†   (source)
  • Adam was stoic as they hugged, then walked to the car, but once they began to drive, he broke down and cried.†   (source)
  • A quiet, stoic man, he wore cowboy boots and sported a handlebar mustache so thick, it hid his mouth.†   (source)
  • Stoically, they followed their assigned roles and maintained the intricate teamwork of the great assaulting organism.†   (source)
  • I'm still watching him struggle to remain stoic and unaffected when I hear the sound of Mrs. Leighton's shoe connecting with Drew's shin.†   (source)
  • Trueba resisted stoically until the day he found his granddaughter Alba with her head shaved like a billiard ball, endlessly repeating the sacred word Om.†   (source)
  • He took it for granted that they did submit so stoically.†   (source)
  • Beautiful Moon would be stoic and beautiful in all circumstances.†   (source)
  • Unlike his companions, he seemed stoic, not fearful, even though he was the one in pain.†   (source)
  • He's all stoic about it.†   (source)
  • Thoroughly out of character for the stoic, black-hearted Swiss.†   (source)
  • I wrote of ... the grim determination of the stoic Southern law officers,†   (source)
  • She remained stoic and impassive--hard to read.†   (source)
  • Do you expect he should behave like a stoic philosopher, lost in apathy?†   (source)
  • I deliberately remained stoic.†   (source)
  • She glanced at Kyle's face–which was more stoic than I was used to seeing it–and her voice turned sad.†   (source)
  • Angel didn't try to be stoic but climbed into my lap sobbing.†   (source)
  • Maybe the minister saw something like that as well, in the sad, stoic, weathered face across her desk.†   (source)
  • Ann bears the injustice stoically, and I'll relish the day she tells them all she's off to tread the boards as a member of Mr. Katz's company under the tutelage of Miss Lily Trimble herself.†   (source)
  • Mom remains the stoic politician.†   (source)
  • "Some would say you're being stoic and manly," she began as she dragged over a chair.†   (source)
  • At the time I was almost sure the captain was being serious with me, and in fact I spent a quiet hour that evening at the man's bedside, inspecting his stoic face for the least indication of sentience.†   (source)
  • And then I'm crying, and my dad is crying, one stoic tear at a time, and then his head is in his hands and my mom and I move like one person over to him, and the three of us huddle together, rocking a little back and forth, taking turns saying, "It's okay.†   (source)
  • ACE 55–135), Greek Stoic philosopher The rest of the morning is a blur of deliveries.†   (source)
  • Bruenor marked the drow's look, and it pained him as it pained Drizzt, though the elf stoically pretended otherwise.†   (source)
  • "Now this next one here-" he indicated stoic Jim Kemper-"this one is not even a soldier, so watch him."†   (source)
  • I didn't know why, but even in my efforts to peel back the curtains and take an honest look at what had happened between us, I felt the need to maintain my stoic image.†   (source)
  • Derek heaved a deep sigh, a stoic expression taking over his face.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless he bore it with what stoicism he could muster until the female tired.†   (source)
  • The congregation was not stoic and never silent.†   (source)
  • I said nothing for a moment, then added in a stoical voice, "I guess I'll manage to get over it after a while."†   (source)
  • Still, my characters remained hard types who lumbered off to defeat or death with stoic resignation.†   (source)
  • For her part, Mrs. Brown remained as serious and stoical as a cigar-store Indian.†   (source)
  • But they could not help but admire his stoical courage and rugged individualism, which his preface to a brief autobiographical sketch expressed more simply: "This book will lose me some friends.†   (source)
  • All orphans were at once wondering and stoic-at one moment loving everything too much, the next folding back from it, tightly as hard green buds growing in the wrong direction, closing as they go.†   (source)
  • But when she got home, and she found herself back in her usual routine, with now not even daydreams to sustain her, facing her future with a tired stoicism, she found she was exhausted.†   (source)
  • disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him,   (source)
    stoicism = being unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
  • Every truck that made its way from the factories to the freight-stations was guarded by a policeman, trying to look stoical beside the scab driver.   (source)
    stoical = not showing emotion
  • She suddenly felt a longing desire to speak to some one stronger than herself, and so get strength to sustain ... her lurking doubts with stoicism.   (source)
    stoicism = to be unaffected by emotions
  • The soldiers left the room with him, pushing him before them with stout thwacks, which Gringoire bore like a true stoical philosopher.   (source)
    stoical = not displaying emotion
  • He said Jimmy should read up on the Stoics.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were red, and she had obviously been crying, but she nodded with a resolute stoicism.†   (source)
  • "Give me the Mountain Dew," he said stoically.†   (source)
  • "It's all right, Master Arwyl," I said stoically.†   (source)
  • Please don't mistake this rambling angst for stoicism.†   (source)
  • Like Heraclitus, the Stoics believed that everyone was a part of the same common sense—or "logos."†   (source)
  • I'm afraid I expected her to be more stoical than she was.†   (source)
  • That was why it was important to meet every situation with 'stoicism.'†   (source)
  • Stoicism was later to have great significance for Roman culture.†   (source)
  • In this, then, the Stoics sided with Socrates against the Sophists.†   (source)
  • They bore it stoically, she reminded herself.†   (source)
  • But the drow accepted the shunning with his characteristic stoicism.†   (source)
  • Three years of total stoicism, blown in one night.†   (source)
  • The great rakshasa had been sitting stoically amid his lieutenants.†   (source)
  • "He has more to give," remarked Bram stoically.†   (source)
  • Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, the stoically heroic British,' observed the Frenchman.†   (source)
  • You're exhausting your options," replied Cooper stoically.†   (source)
  • "Ay, Marez men," she said stoically and turned to my father.†   (source)
  • Teeleh stood stoically on the bridge, drilling him with those large green eyes.†   (source)
  • Josh Bennett, king of the brooding stoics, laughs.†   (source)
  • I stared ahead stoically, refusing to look down at the tall water tower wearing mouse ears.†   (source)
  • But who was he to preach stoicism, she responded warmly.†   (source)
  • Bronzini stood before his class, forty-four stoical souls in general science.†   (source)
  • Many people on the outside (especially men) had admired my stoicism when I was on my way to prison.†   (source)
  • He offered a slight, almost imperceptible nod of encouragement before the mask of stoicism returned.†   (source)
  • David had borne this as he bore so many things—with a quiet stoicism that belied his youth.†   (source)
  • The statue stared stoically ahead, and Max sighed.†   (source)
  • I felt embarrassed to be still falling apart two weeks later when the Colonel could take his medicine so stoically, and I sat up.†   (source)
  • He managed to take the aspirin and drink the water without disturbing my mother, and he handed the glass back to me with a stoical expression.†   (source)
  • Driving up to see Susan Marie Heine, Art muddled out his words in silence, revising as he went and planning his demeanor, which ought, he decided, to have a vaguely military architecture with certain nautical decorative touches—to report a man's death at sea to his widow was a task done gravely but with tragic stoicism for centuries on end, he figured.†   (source)
  • So he submitted without resistance to the red-hot forceps of Dr. Adonay, and he endured his convalescence with the stoicism of a pack mule.†   (source)
  • Buddhist and Brahminical wisdom endorsed metempsychosis—the transmigration of the soul into a new body after death; Platonists defined the body as a "prison" from which the soul escaped; and the Stoics called the soul apospasma tou theu—"a particle of God"—and believed it was recalled by God upon death.†   (source)
  • My father stood stoically still.†   (source)
  • Worry for Brenda—standing stoically just a few people down the line from him—and regret over how they had barely spoken since being reunited.†   (source)
  • In short, Tabitha Wheelwright got over Lewis Merrill rather quickly; and she bore up better than stoically to the task of bearing his illegitimate child.†   (source)
  • The Stoics, moreover, emphasized that all natural processes, such as sickness and death, follow the unbreakable laws of nature.†   (source)
  • You're probably thinking of the Stoics.†   (source)
  • The Cynics and the Stoics believed in enduring pain of all kinds, which is not the same as setting out to avoid pain.†   (source)
  • Both the Cynics and the Stoics interpreted his philosophy as meaning that man had to free himself from material luxuries.†   (source)
  • Neoplatonism As I showed you, Cynicism, Stoicism, and Epicureanism all had their roots in the teaching of Socrates.†   (source)
  • At the same time we saw philosophers like the Stoics, for example, and Spinoza, who said that everything happens through the necessity of natural law.†   (source)
  • Like the humanists of antiquity—such as Socrates and the Stoics—most of the Enlightenment philosophers had an unshakable faith in human reason.†   (source)
  • The Stoics considered the legal statutes of the various states merely as incomplete imitations of the "law" embedded in nature itself.†   (source)
  • In contrast to the Stoics, the Epicureans showed little or no interest in politics and the community.†   (source)
  • For a time he was influenced by Stoic philosophy, and according to the Stoics, there was no sharp division between good and evil.†   (source)
  • As true children of their time, the Stoics were distinctly "cosmopolitan," in that they were more receptive to contemporary culture than the "barrel philosophers" (the Cynics).†   (source)
  • In the same way that the Stoics erased the difference between the individual and the universe, they also denied any conflict between "spirit" and "matter."†   (source)
  • The Stoics The Cynics were instrumental in the development of the Stoic school of philosophy, which grew up in Athens around 300 B.C. Its founder was Zeno, who came originally from Cyprus and joined the Cynics in Athens after being shipwrecked.†   (source)
  • While I tend toward stoicism and logic, Jane is outgoing and kind, with a natural empathy that endears her to others.†   (source)
  • They were six lawyers in frock coats and top hats who endured the violent November sun with stiff stoicism.†   (source)
  • Barely awake in Michelle's arms, Savannah started crying as soon as she saw her mother's face, while Nathan walked stoically beside Dave, tears running down his cheeks.†   (source)
  • The other young Pimas, when they broke their usual stoicism, liked to rib Ira in the wry, almost mocking style that flavored their culture's humor.†   (source)
  • Glenn Goins, the group's instructor, taught his charges to take the abuse stoically and reminded them that the best defense was to make sure they could outrun, outclimb, outshoot, and outthink any aggressor.†   (source)
  • Angeline stood it with noble stoicism for about an hour and then, sadly disheveled, she attempted to protect herself by sitting on her tail and tucking her mauled head down between her legs.†   (source)
  • She was one of those stoical, practical women of our country, the kind of woman who has a child with every man who passes through her life and, on top of that, takes in other people's abandoned children, her own poor relatives, and anybody else who needs a mother, a sister, or an aunt; the kind of woman who's the pillar of many other lives, who raises her children to grow up and leave her and lets her men leave too, without a word of reproach, because she has more pressing things to…†   (source)
  • Meme bore up under the exhibitions with the same stoicism that she had dedicated to her apprenticeship.†   (source)
  • She simply stood by, leaning on her bloodstained spear and gazing stoically at the boy she had slain.†   (source)
  • "I am not badly injured," she assured Wulfgar stoically, though it was obvious to the barbarian that she had been sorely injured.†   (source)
  • Concerned about the trials she would face as the wife of so prominent a public man, Adams cautioned her to study stoicism.†   (source)
  • She prepared a repugnant potion for them made out of mashed wormseed, which they both drank with unforeseen stoicism, and they sat down at the same time on their pots eleven times in a single day, expelling some rose-colored parasites that they showed to everybody with great jubilation, for it allowed them to deceive Ursula as to the origin of their distractions and drowsiness.†   (source)
  • Drizzt moved solemnly to his side, stoically determined to hold back the uncharacteristic tears that welled in his lavender eyes.†   (source)
  • I didn't realize it, but I had really been raised to follow the ethos of Stoicism—the Greco-Roman answer to Zen.†   (source)
  • Umbra did not look at him when she said it; she stared stoically ahead, running with a doe's effortless grace.†   (source)
  • You, my dear sir, have ever possessed a nature too ardent, too full of benevolent feelings …. to sink into the cold and thankless state of stoicism.†   (source)
  • He came to accept his penance with stoicism, heeding Bruenor's commands without question or complaint.†   (source)
  • How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away?†   (source)
  • He was suspended by a system of silken nets and pulleys, blinking stoically while the healer applied some salve.†   (source)
  • The barbarian was made of tougher stuff than wood, though, and he took the blow stoically, returning it two-fold with Aegis-fang.†   (source)
  • Gumming his lips, he looked stoically at the table for the defense, where Mum was seated alongside the haglings and Bellagrog, who had elected to don an enormous barrister's wig for the occasion.†   (source)
  • Stoicism vanished.†   (source)
  • It wasn't just my peers who applauded this trait; the prison system mandates stoicism and tries to crush any genuine emotion, but everyone, jailers and prisoners alike, is still crossing boundaries left and right.†   (source)
  • Since the first time he lifted the smithy hammer he called his own, the methodical stoicism of a servant had been replaced by the eagerness and meticulous devotion of a true craftsman.†   (source)
  • I am sure it was only his mad and sovereign stoicism that prevented him from falling into suicidal despair.†   (source)
  • By this time Ethel was standing beside her mother with an expression of complete stoicism on her face.†   (source)
  • With deliberation and a stoical pride she sat down on the old sofa that had worn into the shape of her body, and folded her hands and waited, looking at the windows for the light to fade.†   (source)
  • Alice grabs it with stoical indifference, pumping wearily away like some marathon bellringer while I pant and groan ludicrously and hear myself whimpering such asininities as "Oh God, that's good, Mary Alice!" and catch a glimpse of her lovely and totally unconcerned face even as there rises in me lust and despair in almost equal measure—with despair, however, ascendant regarding this loutish business.†   (source)
  • He'd held a stoic face throughout the tale, giving no hint yet as to whether he believed the story.†   (source)
  • His file also contained a school photo, showing a thin, stoic boy with a shaved head.†   (source)
  • Little children stood around everywhere with their parents, as quiet and stoic as the grown-ups.†   (source)
  • If so, her stoic face betrayed no sign of relief.†   (source)
  • Noah laughed and cut up at his lunch table and sat stoic in class.†   (source)
  • Images of Noah standing stoic next to a ticked-off Stephen filled my mind.†   (source)
  • The name "Stoic" comes from the Greek word for portico (stoo).†   (source)
  • He visited the Jewish synagogue in Athens and conversed with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers.†   (source)
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