stoical

How To Use stoical In A Sentence

• With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. Inside the Whale
• I don't tell this story to boast of my skills as a stalker or hide builder or to show my stoical ability to endure hours without moving in the pursuit of wildlife.
• But the running, the vitamin drips and disciplined approach to eating are borne stoically. Times, Sunday Times
• She listened stoically as the guilty verdict was read out.
• The suspended assistant police commissioner had stood stoically as the jury forewoman was asked 20 times for a verdict.
• One stoical person’s mild twinge is another, more sensitive patient’s agony. On a scale of one to ten...
• Yet she bore her pain stoically, neither asking nor expecting him to help her through it.
• They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male. Times, Sunday Times
• Local people were stoical about the damage caused by the hurricane.
• a stoical sufferer