(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.
Stolid
Definition:
(a.) Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rhythm section is strong: occasionally stolid, always solid and sometimes – in particular on their career highpoint, the extraordinary "damn you, England" rant called "The Queen is Dead" – totally inspired.
(2) The menu is stolidly British – tea and biscuits, fish and chips and club sandwiches are favourites.
(3) As the Ohio State University climatologist Lonnie G Thompson, a world-renowned specialist on glacier melt, explained in 2010 , “Climatologists, like other scientists, tend to be a stolid group.
(4) He saw the new forces of educational selection in postwar Britain as yielding a new "restless elite", a creative minority rising above "the stolid majority".
(5) He arrived in office with the image of a stolid traditionalist, suffered some early wounding setbacks but emerged at the end of it as a pioneering campaigner in partnership with one of the most glamorous film stars on the planet.
(6) Ray (2004) The late Ray Charles is conjured up in all his playful, lustful, anguished glory in this otherwise stolid, respectful biopic of the legendary musician.
(7) To our left sat a stolid middle-aged black couple in the Mad Hatter attire that has become part of the South African football fan's kit.
(8) While Lessing's brother, Harry settled into a life of stolid conformity, she rebelled, graduating from a junior school run by nuns who had been out in the sun too long, to a high school which she left when she was 14.
(9) 58 min: Holland are looking stolid and unimaginative.
(10) 3.36am GMT 56 mins The lack of the overlapping full backs (Scott is no Yedlin) is beginning to make Seattle look a little stolid trying to play through this narrow Portland midfield.
(11) One by one, our equivocal hero seeks out the runaways: worldly-wise Zhora (Joanna Cassidy); stolid Leon (Brion James); the “pleasure-model” Pris ( Daryl Hannah ); and the group’s apparent leader, the ultimate Nietzschean blond beast, Roy Batty (the wonderful Rutger Hauer).
(12) The Guardian Review book club boasts a distinguished history of literary guests, but only Lessing achieved the distinction of a spontaneous standing ovation upon entering the room, a tiny figure dressed entirely in black, stolid as a carved deity.
(13) But Rjukan itself, until then, was stolidly unimpressed.
(14) When he comes back from the effects of a heart attack in his garden, it is with inner sensation – "an audible pop in the ears" – and a kind of self-spectatorship: "a rich consciousness of solitude, and a feeling of love and admiration for this big stolid body I was in".
(15) Led by the passionate Charles Parnell , and then by the stolid John Redmond , the Irish Parliamentary party’s obstructionism and filibusters won many reforms for Ireland.
(16) One kind morning I got myself to a meeting with a marvellous occupational therapist, Nicky deCourcy, who stolidly laid out a few facts, among them the detail that I wouldn't be able to cope for a while with more than two extraneous interventions – quiet TV plus reading, say, or radio plus writing – and that sudden urgent sounds would send me, in the medical terminology, a bit wacko.
(17) Now, Germans practise the stolid virtues of thrift and moderation we once thought our own, while the British, who once abhorred debt, have become a nation of maniacal spendthrifts.
(18) Orwell never explains why the stolid old Anglo-Saxon should be any more "clear" than such newfangled horrors; as "predict" and "extraneous" demonstrate now, words minted from the classical will very rapidly seem entirely normal.
(19) I was convinced that, for all its Thatcherite ugliness and excess, there was something about the UK's gritty liveliness that would leave the stolid Germans behind.
(20) By allowing TV cameras to broadcast the coronation at Westminster Abbey live to millions of her citizens the Queen transformed a stolid state ceremony into a national celebration.