All 4 Uses of
stoic
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- It was as if a steel wall had gone up in his mind, shutting off all but his stoic resolve.†
Chpt 5 *
- For most of his life he'd been the stoic computer in the corner, accepting input, then calculating, parsing, breaking down data before spitting it back out in the form of a report to be acted upon by others.†
Chpt 10
- They were only superficial wounds and with a stoic nod he'd slapped her on the back and told her it would make her tough.†
Chpt 33
- Ryan knew that he was departing from his resolution to remain perfectly stoic for her sake, but realizing that BoneMan saw himself as a kind of Satan, he thought it only prudent to point out that in the real world, everyone fled the terrors of evil and ran for the loving father.†
Chpt 35
Definitions:
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(1)
(stoic) seeming unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, a stoic can refer to a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno (known for striving to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions).