All 3 Uses of
stoic
in
The Fault in Our Stars
- These young heroes wait stoically and without complaint for their one true Wish to come along.
p. 88.9 *stoically = without displaying emotion
- 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?
p. 173.7stoic = seeming unaffected by pain or emotions
- So here's this girl missing a fifth of her brain who's just had a recurrence of the Asshole Tumor, and so she was not, you know, the paragon of stoic cancer-kid heroism.
p. 174.4
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).