How To Use Stoical In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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But the running, the vitamin drips and disciplined approach to eating are borne stoically.
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She listened stoically as the guilty verdict was read out.
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The suspended assistant police commissioner had stood stoically as the jury forewoman was asked 20 times for a verdict.
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One stoical person’s mild twinge is another, more sensitive patient’s agony.
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Yet she bore her pain stoically, neither asking nor expecting him to help her through it.
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They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male.
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Local people were stoical about the damage caused by the hurricane.
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a stoical sufferer
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Still, we endure stoically, because the etiquette books - written, no doubt, by extroverts - regard declining to banter as rude and gaps in conversation as awkward.
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The children's facial expressions range from defiant to aggressive, from stoical to shy.
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There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied.
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As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death.
Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
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This work is dedicated to Penny Vale who, in addition to listening to my theories of development and readings, waded stoically through reams of printed notes and sheets correcting typos and spelling mistakes.
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For a sales executive, the airline delays of the past 10 days have brought much opportunity for stoical resignation, deep thinking and reading.
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A lot of people are very stoical and put up with pain because they think nothing can be done.
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They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male.
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The masculine heroes are phlegmatic, resourceful and stoical.
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The present ministerial team at the Ministry of Defence has clung stoically to the traditional line that the negligence verdict was correct.
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This is what makes men stoical with a fatalism that is so complete it allows for neither optimism nor pessimism.
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She appeared equally stoical until the prosecutor lit into her, charging that Tony essentially committed his alleged crimes for her - to make sure that should he predecease his mother, a distinct possibility when you're in your eighties yourself -- she wouldn't be left out of the will, which was Mrs. Astor's apparently fervent desire "There was no love lost between Mrs. Astor and Charlene," Ms. Loewy told the jury.
Ralph Gardner Jr.: Inside the Astor Trial: The People vs. Anthony Marshall and Francis Morrissey
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There was more entertainment to follow as the Scotland side stoically withstood some brutal tackling to more or less assure themselves of winning their European pool.
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She never ceased to admire the stoical courage of those in Northern Ireland.
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But Jose was a gallego, whence instead of the voluble flood of protesting words one expects from a Spaniard on such an occasion, he wrapped himself in a stoical silence.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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The mood in central London is odd - actually very stoical and with a real sense of fellowship and camaraderie.
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The warriors stared at him with what might be called a stoical surprise.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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We sat stoically as the news dribbled in, mixed with confusing and contradictory reports as the newsmen attempted to ascertain the facts.
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If you listen long enough, you could swear you hear the trees talking, murmuring to themselves as they stand stoically in the teeth of the storm.
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I cheated on his trust and took advantage of his stoical nature.
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The masculine heroes are phlegmatic, resourceful and stoical.
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Is it the same as stoical endurance?
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The stoical Pocket, unflappable, was working his way through several days ' backlog of begrimed dishes.
ANTI-ICE
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The result of this stoical acceptance is that Swedes welcome new ideas.
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Unmoved we stared at a load of cold, geometrical abstractions, pooh-poohed the idea of living in such a gallery and, on the brink of calling it a day, stoically suffered on.
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Cruz gives a stoical performance that brings some tenderness to what is essentially a rather uncomfortably melancholic melodrama.
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They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male.
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You really need to calm down and take life more stoically to reinforce your position.
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To see anything honest in such a man as Paul, whose home was at the centre of the Stoical enlightenment, when he converts an hallucination into a proof of the resurrection of the Saviour, or even to believe his tale that he suffered from this hallucination himself -- this would be a genuine niaiserie in a psychologist.
The Antichrist
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It would have been fascinating to eavesdrop on their several conversations but what was most impressive was his stoical calm under such pressure.
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The miners seemed to bear their suffering stoically, though their conditions were very bad indeed.
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I'm stoical and have a pretty high pain threshold.
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The haircut's recipient stoically accepts his fate in the tight arms of his mother.
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In character he appears to have been gentle and kindly, self-sacrificing with his patients and stoical towards his own ill health.
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Yet, despite this flourishing position of affairs, he still preserved the stoical tendencies in which, to tell the truth, he took a certain vague pride before his family and strangers, since he would frequently say with a stutter: “Any one who REALLY wishes to see me will be glad to see me even in my dressing-gown, and to eat nothing but shtchi [Cabbage-soup.] and kasha [Buckwheat gruel.] at my table.”
Youth
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As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death.
Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
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Plutarkes opinions are Platonicall, gentle and accommodable unto civil societie: Senecæs Stoicall and Epicurian, further from common use, but in my conceit14 more proper, particular, and more solid.
Of Bookes.
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He has also inherited a strong sense of honour and stoical endurance from his father.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This is what makes men stoical with a fatalism that is so complete it allows for neither optimism nor pessimism.
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She never ceased to admire the stoical courage of those in Northern Ireland.
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Last night he remained stoical.
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What we see in Frazer is a quality of stoical resignation in the face of hopelessness, mixed with sad beauty.
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Stoically he reached over his shoulder and drew his sword from its scabbard, slicing it through the air and holding it out to the side.
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Stoically, and with great determination, the people set about rebuilding the village.
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You sense that the man behind it was a stoical man and stoicism doesn't talk too much.
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But there is another leitmotif: uncertainty, of a stoical, dreich kind.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Local people were stoical about the damage caused by the hurricane.
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He was amazingly patient and stoical, though sad and resigned, as though all this was a deserved punishment.
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The gentlemen received the communication with stoical indifference, and Mrs. Tibbs devoted all her energies to prepare for the reception of the valetudinarian.
Sketches by Boz
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But there was no shock; I took the whole revelation in a kind of stoical way.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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The haircut's recipient stoically accepts his fate in the tight arms of his mother.
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They stand in the hot sun and wait: it is not so much stoical or fatalistic as a worn-out realism.
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The rocket crash results in much wartime symbolism, with locals rallying around an old woman who stoically accepts the demolition of her house.
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Stoical, good-humored, a little bit touched in the head, and with a high tolerance for pain, I'm guessing:
Lance Mannion:
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Even when some twenty years before his death at ninety the life's raison d'être began to diminish before ceasing altogether, his attitude was calm and stoical.
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Nonetheless, life is good, the earth is beautiful, human customs enchanting, and we must face up to things with a degree of stoical good-heartedness.
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She never ceased to admire the stoical courage of those in Northern Ireland.
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While we would rather see the enemy be the one to ‘die for his country’ we realize what sacrifices we may be called to make and take a stoical acceptance of our fate.
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‘I tend to remember people when they hog-tie me and throw me in a dungeon,’ she replied stoically.
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It was a place where feelings were liberated from the constraint which the real world puts upon them; and the process of awakenment was always marked by resignation and a kind of stoical acceptance of facts.
Night and Day
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The gentry gritted their teeth and stoically endured the offense, hands hovering over their cell phones ready to summon the gendarmes should the intruder decide to prolong his incursion long enough to constitute a public nuisance.
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He is a Pharisee exposed, the hypocrite who tells his patients how virtuous it is to be stoical.
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Our very word "stoical" is a synonym for calm indifference to pleasure or to pain.
Early European History
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They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male.
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The kids stomped around noisily much to the consternation of the waiters who nevertheless stood stoically in attendance.
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After awhile he moved, lifted his head, and looked about him dully at first and then with a certain stoical acceptance of his plight.
The Ranch at the Wolverine
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In prosperous times he spent generously, although habitually practising a kind of stoical severity in regard to his private affairs.
Cambridge Sketches
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She bore it stoically and quietly, cut expenses to ease his financial worries, and made sure no one outside the family found out.
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The pristine, pale features of the Virgin Mary looked back at my alabaster skin stoically.
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The mood in France in particular was one of stoical resignation - one that probably characterized all agrarian workers who were called up and had to leave their land to be cultivated by women and children.
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The north invokes, partly of course because of Coronation Street itself, an ethos of down-to-earth good humour and a stoical acceptance of disappointment and tragedy.
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For me, each flash of the van was observed stoically, as an ephemeral moment of pseudo-intellectual reflection.
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She never ceased to admire the stoical courage of those in Northern Ireland.
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You sense that the man behind it was a stoical man and stoicism doesn't talk too much.
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Stoical, careworn Paul looks after her and his younger brother.
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Barry, who has stoically remained a traditional barber while many other salons went unisex, said he had seen hair lengths go full circle through the years.
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These songs inhabit a brutal world of sin, stoical suffering, death and redemption.
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The ancient Hindu tales that Pattanaik, 38, tells his corporate audiences are full of fallible kings, stoically suffering queens, demons enticing the gods into lawless jungles, gods with rivers sprouting from their dreadlocks, and goddesses riding elephants.
RNB Roundup: a compendium of religion news stories
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I defer to Chris Brooke's knowledge of Augustine, but I suspect that St A's response to authoritarian measures would have been, shall be say, stoical.
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London River, on the other hand, is a quiet, understated picture, an exercise in what might be called stoical realism.
London River
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Her great-grandfather had clearly been a dedicated and stoical traveller.
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Stanley is the victim of such an appalling and unlikely miscarriage of justice and yet he remains stoical and philosophical about everything that befalls him.
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Plutarkes opinions are Platonicall, gentle and accommodable unto civill societie: Senecaes Stoicall and
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
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They did not claim to be victims; they presented as a rugged, stoical, independent, self-reliant yeomanry.
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Mary sails stoically aloft, umbrella out, against a twilit London skyline towards a horizontal beyond, pregnant with venturesome possibility.
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As for England's quarter-final exit, he bears the pain stoically.
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he stoically accepted all suffering
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They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male.
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But Gandhi was stoical in his bearing, cheerful, and confident in his conversations, and had a kindly eye.
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He took one last long look at the woman he had once loved and watched stoically as she was devoured by hungry tongues of flame.
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Bewitched by Sylvia's beauty, he inveigled himself into her life, throwing his money around and trying to manage the family's affairs while her husband Arthur stoically accepted it.
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Her great-grandfather had clearly been a dedicated and stoical traveller.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The atmosphere was resigned and stoical, but also determined.
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A stoical metronome, she moves only to brush a hand across her brow from time to time.
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Despite her efforts to remain stoical, she was deeply miserable.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Concerning women's stoical endurance of pain during childbirth, she found that the expectation was not restricted to just the hospital situation.
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They don't bluff about their toughness and certainly eschew the model of the stoical, macho male.
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