Marcus is a remarkable young man and goes about his daily life with great stoicism. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
It must have been a lesson in stoicism to withstand them!. From Wordnik.com. [What I Did On Holiday « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
England is fighting heroically, stoically; but her stoicism is a vital mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference
The dictionary defines the word 'stoicism' as the 'indifference to pleasure or pain' or. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
She had much of the stoicism which is, perhaps, the most pronounced feature of her people. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies] Reference
Ancient stoicism was not identical with "stoicism" in the modern sense, although the concepts overlap. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
John worshipped that kind of stoicism which would die with its head up rather than live with its tail down. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
There was a kind of stoicism about the Heaneys and an Anglo-Saxon melancholy, and everything was very measured. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
When under siege by toddlers and roughhousers, he exhibits the same kind of stoicism as a Londoner during the Blitz. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
"The kind of stoicism, humour and determination he showed on a daily basis is something of which our nation can be very proud.". From Wordnik.com. [icNewcastle] Reference
"After the election," he said with his usual stoicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Mr. Clintons] Reference
Tagalog stoicism, greeted him with the finished courtesy of the. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
But McNamara had long since lost his air of cold-eyed stoicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of Robert McNamara] Reference
The stoicism of the Finn is one of his strongest characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
There's no virtue in anonymity, in isolation, in stoicism, in silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Semaphore of Civilization] Reference
The old man seemed strangely moved for one of his stern nature and practical stoicism. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
In the end, Winnie's story reveals little about herself beyond her incredible stoicism. From Wordnik.com. [From China, With Love] Reference
"My aunt Martha overcame this disease and showed great stoicism," or something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The Indian's dignified stoicism has been as much exaggerated, as his courage and fortitude. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
With the stoicism of a sodbuster and the optimism of youth, Tirrel isn't about to bail out. From Wordnik.com. [Anxious In Sioux Falls] Reference
(Obviously, Alice is echoing adult admonitions -- she has interiorized the stoicism of her elders.). From Wordnik.com. [Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine] Reference
But as heads of state came by to offer condolences, Leah Rabin maintained a grim dignity, an elegant stoicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman In Black] Reference
There is a cruelty in life, "she added, compassionately," which we must accept with stoicism as the inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Gertrude Van Deusen, inside her prison, was not hurt, but at last, her chauffeur was shaken out of his stoicism. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference
By showing the stoicism of her subjects, Lange restored dignity to the dispossessed during the Great Depression. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Dignity In Poverty] Reference
The other, obedient to the affected stoicism of her adopted race, was as cold, unmoved, and passionless as marble. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
He merely shut his lips tightly and, in spite of the stoicism that was his by nature, the tears swelled up in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
The Viceroy, "whose whole being was centred in his devotion to his only son, received the tidings with outward stoicism.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The kind of stoicism, humour and determination he showed on a daily basis is something of which our nation can be very proud. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mirror.co.uk - News] Reference
Mr. Lendl, who is known for his stoicism, said he has little sympathy for players who complain about the grueling Open schedule. From Wordnik.com. [Late Fireworks From Federer] Reference
But the demented stoicism that depression imposes on behavior caused me to register scarcely a flicker of this inner devastation. From Wordnik.com. ['An Interior Pain That Is All But Indescribable'] Reference
I had read in newspapers, labored eloquence that described the stoicism of some hardened criminal as a trait of character to be admired. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
In his landscape, his characters, his stoicism-and in the I elegance of his declarative I prose-Ford brings the early Hemingway to mind. From Wordnik.com. ['I Dreamed Our House Caught Fire'] Reference
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