Word: stoically
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...unfailing equilibrium and good humor. There is a streak in the Arkansas character that militates against expecting too much from life (and militates, as well, against political reform). I am not as surprised as I was when Clinton first told me that one of his favorite books is the stoical Meditations of Marcus Aurelius...
...fact that both are tea-loving nations with a devotion to gardens, far beyond the fact that both drive on the left and are rainy islands studded with green villages. They go even beyond the fact that both have an astringent sense of % hierarchy, subscribe to a code of stoical reticence and are, in some respects, proud, isolated monarchies with more than a touch of xenophobia. The very qualities that seem so foreign to many Americans -- the fact that people do not invariably mean what they say, that uncertain distances separate politeness from true feelings, and that everything is couched...
BEST NET GAIN Rubbing out more than the competition, stoical Czechoslovak Tennis Ace Ivan Lendl at last learned to smile...
Coles has a nettlesome habit of segueing into awe at the exact moment that analysis is desperately needed. He devotes 22 pages to a stoical chicano girl named Marty, whose father and brother were killed by a drunk driver. Writing of Marty and another brave child, Coles declares, "One can only try to fathom how children like those two have managed so far to do as they've done. One thereby nudges theory toward human experience, hoping that the latter brings the former to life, and the former helps arrive at a persistent, comprehensible aspect of the human scene...
...they imitated precisely the cadences and vocabularies they had heard so many times on television beaming in from their weightless heroes. "That's affirmative," one camper would say, all business, laconic: "You are a go for nominal de-orbit burn." They caught just right the astronaut's modulations of stoical understatement and occasional jubilant gee whiz. "We're bringin' this bird home!" the commander of one mission cried when he was go for re-entry...