| A lot of people are very stoical and put up with pain because they think nothing can be done. |
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| It would have been fascinating to eavesdrop on their several conversations but what was most impressive was his stoical calm under such pressure. |
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| Concerning women's stoical endurance of pain during childbirth, she found that the expectation was not restricted to just the hospital situation. |
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| Cruz gives a stoical performance that brings some tenderness to what is essentially a rather uncomfortably melancholic melodrama. |
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| In character he appears to have been gentle and kindly, self-sacrificing with his patients and stoical towards his own ill health. |
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| He was amazingly patient and stoical, though sad and resigned, as though all this was a deserved punishment. |
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| For a sales executive, the airline delays of the past 10 days have brought much opportunity for stoical resignation, deep thinking and reading. |
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| You sense that the man behind it was a stoical man and stoicism doesn't talk too much. |
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| This is what makes men stoical with a fatalism that is so complete it allows for neither optimism nor pessimism. |
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| These songs inhabit a brutal world of sin, stoical suffering, death and redemption. |
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| He is a Pharisee exposed, the hypocrite who tells his patients how virtuous it is to be stoical. |
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| What we see in Frazer is a quality of stoical resignation in the face of hopelessness, mixed with sad beauty. |
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| I don't tell this story to boast of my skills as a stalker or hide builder or to show my stoical ability to endure hours without moving in the pursuit of wildlife. |
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| The masculine heroes are phlegmatic, resourceful and stoical. |
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| Nonetheless, life is good, the earth is beautiful, human customs enchanting, and we must face up to things with a degree of stoical good-heartedness. |
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| I defer to Chris Brooke's knowledge of Augustine, but I suspect that St A's response to authoritarian measures would have been, shall be say, stoical. |
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| These reflect the artist's prevailingly stoical attitude toward life and his philosophical resignation in the face of death. |
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| Clumber Spaniels are stoical, big-hearted, highly intelligent dogs with a determination that enhances their natural abilities. |
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| Ms Nicholson shows us these people again, not as comic cartoons but as spirited and stoical precursors of modern feminism. |
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| Individual soldiers coped with these conditions as best they could but a certain stoical humour played its part. |
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| Take Björn Borg's tennis game: stoical, rock solid, with a single-minded attitude and never-say-die tilt. |
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| The serene and almost impassive nature of the sculpture is reminiscent of his melancholy and stoical maidens. |
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| But with the twelfth blow, they took again their place, stoical and motionless under the attacks of time. |
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| The north invokes, partly of course because of Coronation Street itself, an ethos of down-to-earth good humour and a stoical acceptance of disappointment and tragedy. |
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| The result of this stoical acceptance is that Swedes welcome new ideas. |
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| Stanley is the victim of such an appalling and unlikely miscarriage of justice and yet he remains stoical and philosophical about everything that befalls him. |
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| The atmosphere was resigned and stoical, but also determined. |
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| The pain and disappointment of the defeat was writ large across the faces of the Great Britain players as they trudged from the field, but coach Brian Noble remained stoical. |
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| I cheated on his trust and took advantage of his stoical nature. |
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| A bit further, a yelling and tyrannical baby keeps on pointing at people until his father, a fat and stoical man with a moustache, carries the little monster to meet them. |
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| The path to survival lay in stoical acceptance. |
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| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
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| We had to be fairly stoical and keep it all a secret. |
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| The stoical residents of Gonaives are rebuilding, even though parts of their city remain flooded more than a week after Tropical Storm Jeanne lashed northwestern Haiti. |
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| A stoical, nonemotional response to an injury may be a sign of bravery in certain cultural or social groups, but that behaviour can also mask the severity of an injury to an examining physician. |
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| In conclusion, Prime Minister, I would say, do as your countryman Justus Lipsius advised: be stoical in adversity, embrace necessity and be constant in your faith in Europe. |
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