Word: stoically
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...India it was the way that stressed the preservation of the best that man has attained; in Japan the ways that stressed sympathetic concern for other persons and stoical self-control; in China the ways that stressed identification with the group for the achievement of social goals and letting oneself be an instrument of the great powers at work in the world...
...ends the film with a comedy rescue involving a band of Mexican Keystone cops. Jane Russell, looking woodenly decorative, works her throaty way through a couple of songs (Five Little Miles from San Berdoo and You'll Know), while Mitchum manages his undemanding part with an air of stoical resignation...
Social Research found that televiewers have come to regard commercials with "the stoical air appropriate to a necessary evil." Reactions differ considerably by class. The Upper Middles (12%), if they watch commercials at all, watch just to be critical. Middle Majority viewers (65%) are more sporting, will stay with commercials until they get bored. Lower Middle Class (23%) televiewers are apt to be most considerate. Because the advertiser pays for the program, they feel duty-bound to lend their eyes & ears to his sales message...
...bushes and arrested him. To make him talk, government soldiers tied him up and put a mine at his feet. Terrified, Stoikos told all he knew about his boss and his organosis; then he cut his own throat with a broken bottle. A doctor sewed up the wound, but stoical Stoikos tore it open again and bled to death...
...question of whether or not the wife should be told just what she faces, there is no evidence that anyone in front of the camera or behind it has heard of stoical, let alone Christian reasons, for telling and facing that kind of truth...