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    stoical


    1. even the most stoical of Gurus (Yoga Masters) would not wish


    2. She had cancer – being of the stoical school, she didn’t discover it until it was far too late to do anything about it


    3. His mother was a little less stoical than usual but that could just be the shock any how she went into the kitchen and started to make tea and looked for the Passover wine for those who wanted something a little stronger


    4. on the careless, stoical trees


    5. Blimey, how could he be so stoical? There he was, nursing a fractured foot that must have been painful, and still he managed to have a pristine, one-with-the-universe look on his face


    6. The servants remained stoical and silent, though they had their own thoughts on the matter


    7. I’m sure they perform a very important service to people a little less stoical than me


    8. If her little sister was stoical about her illness, Melissa herself always put on a brave face about the medical bills, but in reality she was almost to the point of paying interest only on their accumulated medical debts


    9. They cancelled each other out in a stoical stand-off


    10. Still, in turn, this stoical attitude might lead to an increase in the intensity of the indications

    11. Bernhardt was stoical –she knew she had no choice– but she had a protracted


    12. stoical apathy were maintained even by good men about it


    13. was then believed, a dead silence and the most stoical apathy were maintained even by good men


    14. doctrine was then believed, a dead silence and the most stoical apathy were


    15. All who have read the Old Testament know what vast numbers were cut off in a day, by war and pestilence, and other means; yet do you ever hear it deplored by a single individual, as is often done in our day, that so many were sent out of the world to eternal misery? If, in short, this doctrine was then believed, a dead silence and the most stoical apathy were maintained even by good men about it…Under the Old Testament dispensation the sinful condition of the heathen nations is often spoken of


    16. said, trying to keep his stoical cool; but when our arms wrapped around each other in a


    17. prejudice Orthodox religion threw in the towel of their stoical theology and took up the


    18. She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two assistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for the distraint


    19. This is not the time, and, perhaps, not the place, to enlarge upon the tragic character of the situation; a whole people seeing the culmination of its misfortunes in a final catastrophe, unable to trust anyone, to appeal to anyone, to look for help from any quarter; deprived of all hope and even of its last illusions, and unable, in the trouble of minds and the unrest of consciences, to take refuge in stoical acceptance


    20. Each warrior sprang upon his feet at the utterance of the well-known appellation, and there was a short period during which the stoical constancy of the natives was completely conquered by surprise

    21. I sat in my bed watching back-to-back episodes of CSI: Miami led by the stoical Horatio Caine


    22. She had much questioned if they would appear at the parting moment; but there they were, stoical and staunch to the last


    23. He was stoical, serious, austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics


    24. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families


    25. He had accepted every extremity when it had been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a martyr


    26. No wavering took place in his stoical audience


    27. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, 1789; these soldiers are priests


    28. Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have heard frightful sobs


    29. While I have that money on me, he said, I am a scoundrel, not a thief, for I can always go to my insulted betrothed, and, laying down half the sum I have fraudulently appropriated, I can always say to her, ‘You see, I've squandered half your money, and shown I am a weak and immoral man, and, if you like, a scoundrel’ (I use the prisoner's own expressions), ‘but though I am a scoundrel, I am not a thief, for if I had been a thief, I shouldn't have brought you back this half of the money, but should have taken it as I did the other half!’ A marvelous explanation! This frantic, but weak man, who could not resist the temptation of accepting the three thousand roubles at the price of such disgrace, this very man suddenly develops the most stoical firmness, and carries about a thousand roubles without daring to touch it


    30. And you know real genuine sorrow will sometimes make even a phenomenally frivolous, unstable man solid and stoical; for a short time at any rate; what's more, even fools are by genuine sorrow turned into wise men, also only for a short time of course; it is characteristic of sorrow

    31. This stoical mode of life he sought to apply also to his family, so far as the sympathetic respect which he conceived to be his mother’s due would allow of; so that, although, in the drawing-room, he would show her only stuttering servility, and fulfil all her wishes, and blame any one who did not do precisely as she bid them, in his study or his office he would overhaul the cook if she had served up so much as a duck without his orders, or any one responsible for sending a serf (even though at Madame’s own bidding) to inquire after a neighbour’s health or for despatching the peasant girls into the wood to gather wild raspberries instead of setting them to weed the kitchen-garden


    32. ] Yet, despite this flourishing position of affairs, he still preserved the stoical tendencies in which, to tell the truth, he took a certain vague pride before his family and strangers, since he would frequently say with a stutter: “Any one who REALLY wishes to see me will be glad to see me even in my dressing-gown, and to eat nothing but shtchi [Cabbage-soup


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    Synonyms for "stoical"

    stoic stoical serious sober austere stern solemn strict formal

    "stoical" definitions

    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive