(a.) Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was unclear what the two men discussed, but the encounter had been planned in advance by the US state department in the hope of breaking a four-year impasse over Iran's nuclear activities.
(2) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
(3) As clinicians comprehend more fully the multifaceted areas of resistance to treatment, they will be able to help their eating-disordered patients traverse a therapeutic impasse.
(4) The consequences of choosing impasse are hardly threatening: mutual recriminations over the cause of stalemate, new rounds of talks, and retaining control of all of the West Bank from within and much of Gaza from without.
(5) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(6) When asked whether he was encouraged that Liverpool’s players were still clearly playing for their manager he issued an impassioned defence of his reign, but also warned the club faced a lengthy rebuilding job, “whether that is with me or someone else in the job”.
(7) Finally, however, the studio system has delivered a vision of a radical paradigm shift, a way out of the impasse.
(8) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
(9) By removing the safeguards on [the total number of] hours [a trainee medic can be told to work], doctors will be working unsafe hours, leading to poor patient care.” One source involved in helping to formulate Hunt’s new offer said it represented a serious move to break the impasse over the pay and conditions of NHS medics and is his “last-ditch attempt to resolve the junior doctors dispute” before the ballot produces a widely expected mandate for action.
(10) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
(11) Liverpool have attempted to break the impasse over Adam Lallana’s proposed move to Anfield by tabling a ‘take it or leave it’ £25m offer for the Southampton captain.
(12) The Kerry speech at the state department at 11am (4pm GMT) is expected to restate the Obama administration’s continued faith in a two-state solution to the chronic impasse.
(13) On Friday, Harris listened impassively as victim impact statements were read out at Southwark crown court.
(14) It is concluded that the blood-testis barrier is particularly impassible during phases 1 and 8.
(15) It is hard to predict where this developing impasse over pensions will end.
(16) The land is held by the Navajo people, and visitors must pay an access fee to drive through the tribal park on a 17-mile dirt loop, which is suitable for all cars when dry but impassable after a storm ( usually in late summer).
(17) With Burnham and Cooper at an impasse, a Kendall campaign source said their data suggests Cooper “doesn’t have the numbers to beat Jeremy”.
(18) I can still hear the beautiful voices of my family.” Tsarnaev sat impassively throughout the testimony, his lawyer Judy Clarke – who has declined to cross-examine any of the prosecution’s 19 witnesses so far – by his side.
(19) The chief executive of HMV , Trevor Moore, has given an impassioned defence of the chain, which will formally slide into administration on Tuesday, insisting it still deserves a place on Britain's high streets.
(20) In an impassioned speech that invoked his parents' past as refugees, Miliband told Labour voters and activists in Cumbernauld: "The values of the Scottish people have shone through in this referendum campaign, whatever side that they're on, the values of justice, of fairness and equality.
Stoical
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
(n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(2) Just a week ago the Spanish had seemed stoical about one of the most depressing eras in recent economic history.
(3) The authors also discuss the difficulties of giving medication for pain control in Zimbabwe: Health care workers may have misconceptions about addiction, and patient may be too stoical.
(4) It becomes clear that when she went for her initial work capability assessment, she was stoical about her condition, rather than labouring the extent of her problems, and as a result, failed to score sufficient points to be granted ESA.
(5) Some open their envelopes stoically and promptly, betraying little emotion; others crowd together for support.
(6) United 's manager wanted to be stoical about the extraordinary nature of last night's woe, which had his disbelieving opposite number José Mourinho sprinting down the track with his coat flapping after Costinha scored.
(7) And protected behind a privacy screen, four Lib Dem workers stoically continued working away on their campaign, as scores of raucous SNP supporters, their saltires, SNP placards and balloons above their heads, greeted Sturgeon’s arrival.
(8) In old news we’ve all heard before, United will ramp up their efforts to lure Gareth Bale from a Real Madrid purgatory he has stoically shown no obvious desire to abandon, while they are also interested Wolfsburg’s Kevin De Bruyne .
(9) Local journalists reported Gough and Roberts walking stoically through "lashing rain".
(10) Young people of today: too lazy to endure stoically the suffering that becoming a drinker demands.
(11) But society seems fairly stoical about it, to say the least.
(12) When they burn down a building, they’re committing arson, and they’re destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities.” 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Read more Occasionally interrupting himself to apologize to the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who stood stoically beside him throughout the lecture, Obama said the question of Baltimore went beyond one of who was culpable for the death of Gray, or for the street violence that followed.
(13) To this end an examination was made as to the cultural-historical side with the Christian and stoical tradition as well as to the ethnologic-psychological side, especially with the aspect of inferiority and pride taking into consideration the reflection of these problems in the so-called "generation of 1898".
(14) Obama has responded with emotions rarely seen during his stoical administration: anger at “hysterical” politicians back home, sorrow at the thought of sending US troops into another Middle East war he fears would be unwinnable, and petulance in the face of those who question his resolve.
(15) Over on a makeshift stage, Coz Fontenot sits stoically with his violin, singing in that high, lonesome, wonderfully timeless voice.
(16) There was this great scene where a new inmate arrived and was quite stoical, but it turned out she was sharing a cell with this brilliantly dungareed lesbian, who starts copping a feel.
(17) We knew the game should finish to avoid a panic, so we stayed in our seats in the front row, stoically, to maintain a visible presence,” Kanner said.
(18) And so this European indulgence, the casino, gave way to the country’s foremost secular shrine – a place to which the new federation, determinedly nation-building while stoically grieving the loss of a generation of men, looked to honour its 62,000 dead and missing.
(19) He is still talking when I leave the room, and still talking when I turn around for my last glimpse of Malala: she is sitting silently, stoically, being talked at.
(20) Patients with better thermal discriminability had greater pain relief, while those with low pain report criterion, that is, less stoical, demonstrated improved physical activity, and more social and hobby activities.