(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.
Trooper
Definition:
(n.) A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
(2) Over the weekend, Nehemiah Fischer, a 35-year-old pastor, was shot dead by an Oklahoma state trooper after getting into a fight when told to evacuate his truck in rising flood waters south of Tulsa.
(3) Tonight they’re dancing the Paso Doble to Sarah Brightman's 'I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper'.
(4) The oldest, 87-year-old Louis Becker, was killed during a collision with a New York state trooper patrol car in upstate New York.
(5) Outside a town centre cafe, I talk to two people who have scars from the long and ultimately unsuccessful campaign against Tesco: Eroica Mildmay, a model-turned-novelist who swears like a trooper, and Margarette Norman, a local freelance journalist.
(6) They knew they had to go west, because the storm-troopers would be coming from the east; they got as far as Ross-on-Wye, where their passports and cameras were taken away.
(7) For more than 30 minutes senators milled around the floor and protesters shouted from the gallery, before troopers moved in, arresting at least one protester.
(8) State troopers were posted along the route to Islamberg, but the ride passed without event.
(9) In the early hours of 2 May 1973, Assata Shakur was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper named James Harper, allegedly for driving with a faulty rearlight.
(10) As the proceedings became more and more tumultuous, state troopers threaded through the crowd, making some arrests and trying to clear the gallery.
(11) We were the storm-troopers of diversity, decades before that term was even invented.
(12) The courtroom was packed with relatives of the prisoners' victims, who included a police officer killed by Augustine in 2001, and a highway patrol trooper and sheriff's deputy killed by Golphin in 1997.
(13) Minutes after they pulled over, both Zayd Malik Shakur and Trooper Foerster were dead, and Assata and Trooper Harper were shot and wounded.
(14) In fact, men in uniform from the sheriff’s department and state troopers were already being used to turn people back on Highway 1806, which goes south from the Bismarck area to the reservation.
(15) In 2010 a former Alabama state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, pleaded guilty to the 1965 shooting of civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson and received a six-month prison sentence.
(16) So I set out to keep my word to the trooper, the first law enforcement official to show genuine kindness and compassion.
(17) Valley Stream troopers pulled over a black Hyundai for driving 79mph in a 55mph zone.
(18) The water was rising and running across the roadway rapidly and the troopers were concerned for these individuals’ safety.
(19) A dozen state troopers were stationed outside the building, alongside scores of protesters in orange shirts, carrying coat hangers and signs that read: "Shame", according to Dallas News .
(20) "Based on preliminary information … the agent along with two Massachusetts state police troopers and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the individual," Couvertier said in a statement.