stoicism
IPA: stˈoʊʌsɪzʌm
noun
- A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.
- A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
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Examples of "stoicism" in Sentences
- Keeping stoicism is difficult.
- Why is the page on Stoicism locked
- He is said to be an example of stoicism.
- I have answered the point on stoicism above.
- It must have been a lesson in stoicism to withstand them!
- It is basically a copy of the equivalent stoicism template.
- And stoicism is a personalty trait of an individual not a sex.
- Despite his stoicism, Boniface was clearly shaken by the incident.
- His most important pupil was Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism.
- He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism.
- Atticus was an inveterate opponent of Stoicism and philosophic pretensions.
- Here is stoicism, as a form of discipline, through which the passions pass.
- England is fighting heroically, stoically; but her stoicism is a vital mistake.
- The great English journalist Harold Evans, editor of the Sunday Times at the time of the Birmingham bombings, says, "I hate to use the word stoicism, but its true."
- This implies that there's something inherently wrong with stoicism, which is just as bad as suggesting that emotions are to be suppressed for the sake of "manliness".
- The irreverent counter to that stoicism is provided by the Fleet Street tabloids, which, whenever possible, disdain Victorian principals while taking a Victoria's Secret approach to covering women's tennis.
- As we looked at her I think we all realized anew that what the world called stoicism in Susan B. Anthony throughout the years of her long struggle had been, instead, the splendid courage of an indomitable soul -- while all the time the woman's heart had longed for affection and recognition.
- There's a certain stoicism and humility to be found in that philosophy, articulated most clearly in Ecclesiastes but evidenced also in common-use words and phrases like "heam", "mektoub" or "in God's hands" ... but it can also be deeply fatalistic, deterministic to the point of being defeatist.
- Prometheus under the beak of the vulture could not have shown more patience than most of those unhappy gentlemen under the infliction of the lawyer's tongue; and their stoicism was the more praiseworthy, because in many instances there seemed no prospect, however remote, of the advent of a Hercules to deliver them.