stoically
IPA: stˈoʊɪkɫi
adverb
- In a manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing suffering or expressing complaint.
- In an unfeeling manner that inwardly is unaffected by pain or distress.
- (philosophy) In a manner consistent with the philosophy of stoicism.
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Examples of "stoically" in Sentences
- As for me, I take this stoically.
- 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.
- Cygnus accepts his death stoically, even if he doesn't like it.
- Valerie faced these blows stoically, confiding only in her journal.
- The play concludes with Beatrice walking stoically to her execution for murder.
- It was a hot day, and the vehicle that Wilkes Butler had rented was not the most comfortable, but he bore it stoically.
- Lesson We learned that people who actually have cancer fight against it stoically, while healthy TV presenters find it all too harrowing.
- The small group of soldiers screamed and waved their weapons in impotent rage, but most wept silently, clinging to loved ones, stoically awaiting their fate.
- Robinson will remember his inspirational dad, who suffered stoically from multiple sclerosis for years before his death, and strive to produce a team that would have made him proud.
- •That the honduran people has resisted stoically for over 3 years the governo of an individual that changed its mind at every tip creating confrontation between the institutions of the state.
- The ancient Hindu tales that Pattanaik, 38, tells his corporate audiences are full of fallible kings, stoically suffering queens, demons enticing the gods into lawless jungles, gods with rivers sprouting from their dreadlocks, and goddesses riding elephants.
- While Kevin Kolb ran the Philadelphia offense, McNabb watched stoically from the sideline as the Baltimore Ravens beat the Eagles 36-7 on Sunday, presenting first-year coach John Harbaugh with a lopsided victory over the team he served as an assistant for 10 years.
- When I asked Henry how she had told it, he answered "stoically" -- as befitted a girl who had sat two hours in the emergency room waiting for her leg to be set after the bicycle accident and then insisted, when her turn came, that the feverish child sitting next to her be attended to first.