Sample Sentences for
stoic
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    several stoic-faced boys  (source)
    stoic = seeming unaffected by emotions
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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)
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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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    Her expression remained stoic as she appraised Max.  (source)
    stoic = emotionless
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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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    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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    No wavering took place in his stoical audience.  (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)
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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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    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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    "I hadn't planned on it," I answered stoically.  (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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    He said Jimmy should read up on the Stoics.†  (source)
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