stoical

IPA: stˈoʊɪkʌɫ

adjective

Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.

Examples of "stoical" in Sentences

As for me, I take this stoically.
Henry suffers all this in stoical silence.
She's coping stoically, but she's not happy.
Ronald stoically obeyed this injunction to the letter.
He is taking this enforced break stoically and admirably.
He stoically tells A Flight to be ready for the dawn patrol.
Training included preparation for a stoical, unflinching death.
Cygnus accepts his death stoically, even if he doesn't like it.
Valerie faced these blows stoically, confiding only in her journal.
The warriors stared at him with what might be called a stoical surprise.
But there was no shock; I took the whole revelation in a kind of stoical way.
The play concludes with Beatrice walking stoically to her execution for murder.
Our very word "stoical" is a synonym for calm indifference to pleasure or to pain.
London River, on the other hand, is a quiet, understated picture, an exercise in what might be called stoical realism.
In prosperous times he spent generously, although habitually practising a kind of stoical severity in regard to his private affairs.
After awhile he moved, lifted his head, and looked about him dully at first and then with a certain stoical acceptance of his plight.
With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor.
It was a place where feelings were liberated from the constraint which the real world puts upon them; and the process of awakenment was always marked by resignation and a kind of stoical acceptance of facts.

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