(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.
Stoicism
Definition:
(n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
(n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps air pollution hasn’t been solved because no one makes a fuss: scarier than the smog in Delhi , Kolkata and London is the stoicism of residents for whom bad air has become part of daily life.
(2) July 1, 2014 9.11am BST Stoicism in the face of adversity.
(3) Of course on social media people are always promising to rip my arms and legs off and do all kinds of things, but there has been nothing I would take seriously.” There appears to be only one limit to his stoicism.
(4) When I look at their faces, I see nothing but bravado, whether it’s Beyoncé’s stoicism, Kerry Washington’s smirk or Serena’s confidence.
(5) Chibok kidnapping: stoicism as girls taken by Boko Haram are remembered Read more Boko Haram has been fighting to impose sharia law across Nigeria’s north for the last six years, massacring civilians and kidnapping thousands of women and children, most notoriously a group of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok.
(6) The former England coach did, at least, receive an apology for a protracted public humiliation borne with dignity and stoicism.
(7) Stoicism offers the cybernetic epistemologist a solid base for theory.
(8) Their apparent stoicism, however, is deceptive: though several people I've spoken to have made it clear that they are staying put, for the Bakers the prospect of another flood is a nightmarish prospect.
(9) To show that would not fit with the romantic view of stoicism in the face of adversity.
(10) In particular, there is the stoicism that teaches us to take mortality and the impermanence of all things as cues to detach ourselves from the ups and downs of life and embrace an accepting tranquility.
(11) This sort of stoicism may be necessary in the months to come.
(12) The patients' attitude toward their lesions was one of bland unconcern and stoicism.
(13) After Mandela's release, his stoicism proved a boon.
(14) In prison, stoicism was the only way to survive with his sanity intact.
(15) As long as people want our help there, we will have a presence there.” Kalyapin’s stoicism about the threat of violence is at least partly down to his past, navigating the violent business climate of Russia in the 1990s.
(16) A third man, his jaw clamped shut on his misery, gazes at the photographer with numb stoicism.
(17) She is humbled by the patient's grit and stoicism, and can only listen with a lump in her throat.
(18) Much bitterness but also stoicism; markets impressed by Irish resolve to bite the austerity bullet Portugal Economic growth: 0.5% this year, 0.7% next National debt as percentage of GDP: 85.8% Budget deficit as percentage of GDP: 8% Cuts: Income, corporate and VAT tax rises coupled with spending cuts aimed at halving budget deficit by next year Outlook: Cross-party consensus has shored up José Sócrates' vulnerable minority government.
(19) Tony Blair last night praised the "stoicism and resilience" of Londoners in the face of yesterday's onslaught on the capital's transport system by bombers he implied were Islamist terrorists.
(20) According to former reports, ALS patients have a reputation of heroic stoicism with a low frequency of depression.