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She suffered quietly, courageously, with a stoic acceptance of her illness.stoic = unemotional
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If she was heart-broken, it didn't show. I still don't know if her stoicism is for show or if she really doesn't allow herself to feel emotion even in private moments.stoicism = lack of emotion
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Like, you are familiar with the trope of the stoic and determined cancer victim who heroically fights her cancer with inhuman strength and never complains or stops smiling even at the very end, etcetera? (source)stoic = seeming unaffected by pain or emotions
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several stoic-faced boys (source)stoic = seeming unaffected by emotions
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He took the blow stoically enough when Harry told him, merely grunting and shrugging, but Harry had the distinct feeling as he walked away that Dean and Seamus were muttering mutinously behind his back. (source)stoically = showing no emotion
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"I hadn't planned on it," I answered stoically. (source)stoically = without displaying emotion
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He had been the most stoic man I had ever known, but since the stroke the most trivial things made him agitated, anxious, tearful. (source)stoic = seeming unaffected by emotions
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Gentlemen, already I seem to detect in our redheaded challenger a most unheroic decline of his TV-cowboy stoicism. (source)stoicism = to seem unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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In the morning, he sits stoically as I clean the cuts, but digging the thorn from his paw brings on a round of those kitten mews. (source)stoically = without displaying pain or emotion
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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
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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)Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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The soldier froze, his expression stoic even in his panic. (source)stoic = seemingly unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left. (source)stoicism = to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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This was the dog who had stoically and silently allowed two-year-old Peter to ride him like a horse around the yard. (source)stoically = without displaying emotion
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He preserved a stoical and cold attitude. (source)stoical = not showing emotion
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For to Dorothea, after that toy-box history of the world adapted to young ladies which had made the chief part of her education, Mr. Casaubon's talk about his great book was full of new vistas; and this sense of revelation, this surprise of a nearer introduction to Stoics and Alexandrians, as people who had ideas not totally unlike her own, kept in abeyance for the time her usual eagerness for a binding theory which could bring her own life and doctrine into strict connection with that amazing past, and give the remotest sources of knowledge some bearing on her actions.† (source)Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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