| The miners seemed to bear their suffering stoically, though their conditions were very bad indeed. |
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| The kids stomped around noisily much to the consternation of the waiters who nevertheless stood stoically in attendance. |
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| The rocket crash results in much wartime symbolism, with locals rallying around an old woman who stoically accepts the demolition of her house. |
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| She bore it stoically and quietly, cut expenses to ease his financial worries, and made sure no one outside the family found out. |
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| The pristine, pale features of the Virgin Mary looked back at my alabaster skin stoically. |
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| She stoically continues the dance, then puts her affairs in order and dies, a pattern of dignified sincerity. |
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| For me, each flash of the van was observed stoically, as an ephemeral moment of pseudo-intellectual reflection. |
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| The witnesses were more than impressed by the officer who carried on stoically despite bleeding like a stuck pig. |
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| There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied. |
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| The present ministerial team at the Ministry of Defence has clung stoically to the traditional line that the negligence verdict was correct. |
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| We sat stoically as the news dribbled in, mixed with confusing and contradictory reports as the newsmen attempted to ascertain the facts. |
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| Outwardly, at least, Lincoln reacted stoically to the continuing hard news. |
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| If you listen long enough, you could swear you hear the trees talking, murmuring to themselves as they stand stoically in the teeth of the storm. |
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| The suspended assistant police commissioner had stood stoically as the jury forewoman was asked 20 times for a verdict. |
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| Yet she bore her pain stoically, neither asking nor expecting him to help her through it. |
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| He took one last long look at the woman he had once loved and watched stoically as she was devoured by hungry tongues of flame. |
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| He seems to be stoically dealing with what should be a traumatic change in his life. |
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| Mary sails stoically aloft, umbrella out, against a twilit London skyline towards a horizontal beyond, pregnant with venturesome possibility. |
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| He inveigled himself into her life, throwing his money around and trying to manage the family's affairs while her husband stoically accepted it. |
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| She stoically soldiers on, even calming down her distraught fellow actors. |
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| Unmoved we stared at a load of cold, geometrical abstractions, pooh-poohed the idea of living in such a gallery and, on the brink of calling it a day, stoically suffered on. |
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| The captives knew what awaited them and stoically bore their torments, sometimes for several days. |
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| The wind blows the grass and earth, and shakes his stump, but he sits stoically, never removing the blindfold. |
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| He endured them stoically and to the rest of us, he was always in good humour. |
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| As for England's quarter-final exit, he bears the pain stoically. |
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| Barry, who has stoically remained a traditional barber while many other salons went unisex, said he had seen hair lengths go full circle through the years. |
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| Some were stoically packing their things, while others were crying because their child...would have to stay behind all by itself. |
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| There was more entertainment to follow as the Scotland side stoically withstood some brutal tackling to more or less assure themselves of winning their European pool. |
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| Monti was forced to react, facing the second vote in the lower house stoically. |
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| The international community has been stoically pumping billions of euros of development aid into the Congo, without measurably changing the terrible situation faced by the population. |
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| Regardless of how involved Carl outwardly appears, inside he holds himself stoically detached. |
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| It was too late, and I watched her stoically grieve the loss of her child. |
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| During the coitus, if he cannot submit stoically to the movements of her, he can mark the pace taking it as the waist and attracting her body towards him. |
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| The characters are endearing about them, they seem to live their condition of fruits and vegetables as a destiny and face the elements outburst stoically. |
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| If this were so, then nothing would have any meaning and all that would be left is to resign ourselves stoically to the final collapse of our world, as though we were facing a natural catastrophe. |
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| His parents coped stoically with their grief, supported by their strong faith and the pride they could take in the memorials commemorating their son. |
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| She sat there stoically, speaking to reporters on her mobile telephone. |
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| A little girl marches stoically up the steps to school. |
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| With Völler standing there stoically pondering the injustice of it all, Rijkaard was lurking in the background, studiously clearing his mucous membranes by hoiking up the mother of all grollies. |
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| Frank Connor look the news stoically and, except for a sudden and nearly unnoticed grimace, with no outward show of emotion. |
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| The region faces today not only the historical inequality of sheer poverty which the population has stoically endured for centuries, but the new inequality that development brings. |
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| Very often, knees deep in the mud, stoically supporting the constant rain, the front loaders scooped up the mud and loaded it into trucks, which took it away. |
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| Instead of the usual lyrics one could hear Albin cursing the sound engineer, before storming off stage hot on his trail, leaving Martina and David, unperturbed, to stoically carry on with the song. |
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| Stoically he reached over his shoulder and drew his sword from its scabbard, slicing it through the air and holding it out to the side. |
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