Word: stoically
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...available resources. Gray offers some comfort in his praise of science, an area constantly making new breakthroughs and rewriting human ignorance, but “Black Mass” ultimately fails to answer how realism will empower us. Gray’s advice to take up “stoical determination and intellectual detachment” is vague and leaves us wondering how it would be better if President Bush were a well-oiled automaton instead of an ardent neo-conservative utopian. Gray offers a convincing and incisive critique of utopian thought, but his solution is hardly any better...
...teammate how to grab a rival and deliver "20 straight rights" to his head. Grub isn't coping with a changing game and looming retirement, and his crumbling sense of identity draws him into increasingly caustic clashes with deceitful club CEO "Colgate" Perry (John Jarratt) and Grub's stoical wife Emma, played superbly by Raelee Hill...
...decks of cards; the burnt-out wrecks of cars destroyed by missiles are scattered up and down the main street. The simple cinder-block buildings are pitted with holes from flying shrapnel and machine gun bullets. The village will take months if not years to rebuild, but for these stoical residents, the pride of driving away the most powerful army in the Middle East takes precedence over more immediate concerns. "Yes, it looks like Leningrad," concedes Sameeh Srour, 53, a policeman,> "but we brought the Israelis to their knees...
...since October, but the national mood remains resolute. Here, without argument, is one way in which Sept. 11 truly has changed the way we think. "The American public," says Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military scholar, "is sensible about war and amazingly stoical." Who, six months ago, would have dared say that...
...since October, but the national mood remains resolute. Here, without argument, is one way in which Sept. 11 truly has changed the way we think. "The American public," says Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military scholar, "is sensible about war and amazingly stoical." Who, six months ago, would have dared say that...