As they stare in horror at the old house, the cries suddenly cease and the stoic hero peels off, his tires squealing on the gravel country road. |
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Turning to Dimitri, her once stoic expression was shattered as a brief smirk lightened her face. |
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And in that kind of instance you would need a judiciary that is stout and stoic in the face of differences of opinion with the regime. |
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He was once again stoic and calculating, the face was blank, but she could sense that behind it his mind was whirling. |
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The figures of his Winged Evocations with stoic visages cast from the artist's face, stood in a line facing a vault entrance. |
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Even though she was sexually intimate with Tony, Sharon sees Tony's silence on his HIV status as stoic rather than a breach of trust. |
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My poor, strange, stoic little poppet, trapped inside her own body, her own shell of an existence. |
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Ever wonder what lurks in the hearts and minds of those stoic, unflappable, dapperly uniformed men? |
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On this show, a square-jawed, stoic samurai warrior has been fired through a time portal by his mortal enemy, Aku, a shape-shifting wizard. |
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He underacts many scenes, perhaps going for stoic emotional pain but looking bored. |
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My piece is based on the Hakka's hard-working and stoic spirit, and their wisdom in solving problems posed by nature. |
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The ideal stoic would go about life as an actor in a play, playing the roll they are assigned. |
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Beth's husband Kevin, a charismatic history teacher, emerges as a stoic, entirely but mutely aware of his wife's distracted love. |
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If you are on one end of the bell curve and need minimal drugs to treat your pain, you're a stoic, a good chap. |
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My friends and colleagues could not understand how I could be such a stoic in the face of losing out on a four-figure sum. |
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The speaker and the guide walked out of the shelter, in their stoic marching stance. |
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Showing no signs of senility, only stoic, hard-won wisdom, The Cave is a work of a master. |
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So other emotions, such as being scared or stoic, could come as a surprise. |
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I sat and watched with some mates and we all thought the second half performance, whilst brave and stoic, was also cheating the fans. |
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All the handmaidens cheered, but the Lady stood to the back of them, her face stoic. |
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His mood seems to have been one of stoic resignation, rather than despair, as reported by James Sharp, a leading Scots Presbyterian. |
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Michael sat in one of the chairs against the wall, trying his best to look strong and stoic, but the worry in his eyes was his betrayer. |
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All of these windows were streaked with blinds, forbidding the light from entering what lay behind the stoic structure. |
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He lacks the adventurousness of others known for similar roles, appearing stuffy, staid, and stoic by comparison. |
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And a stoic is a person who combines the qualities of wisdom, upright dealing, and courage. |
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Everything was on target in this by turns fierce, passionate and stoic gypsy lament. |
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The actress is frequently locked into playing a stoic, good-natured sufferer with a look of passive resignation about her. |
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She stole a glance at the four in black, who remained anonymous, stoic, neutral. |
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The arched wooden front door opened, and a maid stepped out, her face stoic and unsmiling. |
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Instead of finding yourself in a state of stoic ataraxia you might find yourself catatonic or enraged beyond the point of recovery. |
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Boys are independent, self-sufficient, aggressive, dominant, ambitious, stoic, and above all, successful. |
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Right before the flash she would kiss him, bedaubing his stoic cheek with bright lipstick. |
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They're examples of how that stoic, struggle on and make the best of a bad deal and tough times attitude can work against you sometimes. |
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I'm a stoic, honest, and I am battling my natural instinct to swear like a trooper. |
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Papa remained stoic for the most part, but sounded rather choked when he wished me goodbye. |
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The stoic expression on Buddy's weathered face was almost identical to that of the other boatman as the boats closed rapidly on each other. |
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So when Gordon Brown needed a solid, capable and unflashy Chancellor to carry on his stoic work at the Treasury he sent for his fellow Scot. |
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Seeing how terribly the trip strained the ungainly mother, Indira was amazed at her stoic determination to continue. |
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The stoic philosophy also say to remain uninvolved emotionally in your fate, and you will live an untroubled life. |
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That stands as her most memorable title achieved by mental toughness and pure stoic unshakability. |
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Verity Stob's humor is in the stoic British tradition of a Tony Hancock, fiercely moral but utterly non-judgemental. |
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Several struck him, piercing his armor and numbing his limbs with cold, but the stoic fighter shrugged it off and rushed the foe again. |
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It would take more than controversy over his age to keep this stoic ex-mayor of Lancaster down. |
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Some looking stoic, others with tears quietly trickling down their caved in faces. |
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The Britons, in contrast, appeared stoic, taking the mentality of que sera sera. |
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Mostly they were stoic as the tiniest details of the family's nightmare were revealed. |
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I suspect that if you have been trained to be stoic, this probably diminishes your ability to sense pain. |
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Maria, all stoic resolve and wide-eyed studiousness, gets up to speed quickly. |
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His poems have inspired fine musical settings, and his stoic pastorals are some of the most sheerly beautiful in the late Romantic tradition. |
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The 18-year-old maintains a stoic silence even as her family members clamour around to explain how she lost her infant. |
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One family member may be overcome with grief and quite open with their feelings, while another may pull away and adopt a stoic attitude. |
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The memories haunted him throughout his days, but he was a stoic, well disciplined man who accepted and lived with the past. |
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The classic logic according to the rules of the stoic on the other hand links elegant dialectic and rhetoric. |
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I kneel with the journalist in the sand, my face stoic and yet terrified, crying, knowing that I can do nothing but wait. |
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While there's a large degree of stoic acceptance that poor markets have to be endured, there's also a creeping impatience. |
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His stoic outlook on the weirdness around him just seemed odd. |
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In contrast, however, to the stereotype of the reserved, stoic Indian, Creeks respected impassioned public speakers, and lengthy oration was common at council meetings. |
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He presses, a small and mirthless smirk coming to his stoic lips. |
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At every stage in a fairytale life, the stoic sensible lovely Lancashire lass has been Tom's buttress, giving unstinting support and keeping his feet firmly on the ground. |
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His up-tempo songs had undercurrents of solitude, and the ballads that became his specialty were suffused with stoic desolation. |
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You will be stoic and brave, the platonic ideal of perseverance no matter what life throws at you. |
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She remains briskly stoic even as the client's petulance escalates. |
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With each intrusive question, I became more stoic and stiff. |
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To seize the day could be construed as a stoic, moral or hedonistic call, though not usually a sentimental one. |
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Marilyn was a stoic and determined woman, with a clear vision. |
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Adam Phillips starts his essay on the impossibilities of human desire by quoting Christopher Tietjens, the stoic hero of Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy, Parade's End. |
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Students who were not placed in their schools of choice were not as stoic. |
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She was a blushing bride of seventeen, a sad and stoic wife, a loving mother, an embittered chaperone, and a daughter pushed away. |
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He and his pals are stoic in the face of any criticism of their team. |
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From such details, I'd constructed an image of impeccable chivalrousness, with a touch of the immigrant's stoic melancholy. |
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Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach. |
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And it's not lily-livered liberals who do the whining — they're actually relatively stoic. |
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Surprisingly though, when Dad arrived home he found that his mother was being very stoic, while his father was keening. |
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Meanwhile Mark, the reverend whose daughter is missing, has adopted a stoic tone, despite cautious optimism about Buhari. |
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Throughout the White House ceremony and in subsequent interviews, Swenson maintained a stoic calm. |
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She was silent and stoic through her trial, but she is talking now. |
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She did, and for the first time on a podium, the true stoic of her sport shed a quiet tear. |
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The core of the game is stoic batting, watch your off stump, leave the ball. |
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Robin Wright portrays Surratt as a stoic and sympathetic figure, certain to win over filmgoers just as she did her lawyer. |
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But Statham's delivery is strictly grim and stoic, utterly without humour. |
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When I left after dinner, a very stoic woman was waiting for me at the door to the building. |
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He is a noble stoic who is by far the most pure character in the play. |
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Apart from the stoic traditional perspective that purists hold, it is the fertile imagination of artistes that brings about a fresh outlook to a customary concept. |
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For example, some cultures may value a stoic demeanor when in pain, while others will encourage overt expression of pain and distress. |
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Rottweilers are powerfully built and well proportioned dogs that are admired for their loyalty and stoic nature. |
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In my own life, I'm a stoic kinda chick and don't go for overly emotional displays of wails and snotters. |
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A number of stoic philosophers were accused of corrupting students with inappropriate teachings and were expelled from Rome. |
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Gibbon describes Augustus' reaction to the defeat as one of the few times the normally stoic ruler lost his composure. |
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Its reflective, calm, and stoic tone was greatly admired, and it was pirated, imitated, quoted, and translated into Latin and Greek. |
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To Team Edward, the canon pairing with the stoic, troubled, immortal 17-year-old is unquestionable. |
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Her legitimacy, integrity and stoic acceptance of house arrest enable her to occupy the moral high ground. |
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Not entirely unlike Antin, Pliny was a stoic in an age of bread and circuses, writing, seemingly undaunted, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. |
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Sydney's most common tunicate, cunjivoy, is an icon. There are even poems about the stoic cunji! |
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There was not a lot of interaction or facilitation between us, the inquisitive student and the stoic Mountie, that had to present bare facts to a group of Grade four and five students. |
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Soriano had replaced the stoic Mariano Rivera as the team's closer this season and irks more traditional fans by ripping his shirttails out of his waist indecorously after a successful save. |
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I was struck just by how stoic, how forgiving, how loving, how patient they have been throughout what has been, quite frankly, a terrible experience. |
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I leave Nick deep in negotiations with a three-year-old boy who was impressively stoic while the cut on his forehead was sutured, but less so at the prospect of going home without that plastic truck. |
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The County substitute Liam Boyce scored with nine minutes remaining to give the home side hope, but Killie remained stoic in defence, despite a late flurry of activity, for a good away victory. |
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This generation is particularly stoic and will put up with their lot. |
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As the six buses bound for the drop-off point a few hours away roared their engines and pulled out, there were a few stoic faces and tear filled eyes, clearly sad to leave their friends. |
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This desperate idea of devoting one's whole life to an artistic counting from 1 to infinity demands respect, although it more resembles a stoic philosophical attitude than any kind of artistic expression. |
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She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be. |
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