stoical
IPA: stˈoʊɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
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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.