Both Uses of
stoic
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- it could not be precisely translated into English--and it meant doing what one had to do quietly and with an entirely stoic demeanor.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(stoic) seeming unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions