Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times also Martin Andrucki was more awkward and wooden than the Kurt he portrayed and in the climachi scene with Alice he showed his passion with the grace of a self-conscious grizzly with romantic designs on a Yosemite picknicker. Behind the set the lone sentry paces with stoicism that shows him willing to wait for the development of the theme's comic potential in the second...
...believed her mother secure and entrenched, learns her mother left her husband over the issue of the General Strike in 1956. From this revelation, she gains the confidence not to live in a "money-wise" way, and to reject both competition and Bob. Daniel affirms his dissidence, (despite his stoicism and generosity), as a homosexual who has the courage to resist the charade of marriage...
Moreover, it generates a zest and determination in the face of suffering, and she has known deep suffering. Her generous, open nature is also a vulnerable one; she has had to learn to steel it with stoicism. "People plan and God laughs," she says. But she laughs too?a billowing, enfolding laugh that is all the more warming because it is born not of frivolity but of grit...
...fans were almost rewarded for their stoicism. For the fifth time this season, Harvard managed to blow a substantial lead and came within a fourth quarter touchdown of suffering the ultimate distinction of a beaten team--losing to the Bruins...
Bresson's technique in this regard owes much to literary symbolism. Balthazar is a vessel for emotional associations that multiply as the film proceeds. He is a symbol of the promises of Jacques and the physical love of Gerard. He is a sexual substitute. He is the personification of stoicism. He is variously called a saint, a genius and an anachronism. By the end of the film, he is an embodiment of the whole complex of dramatic relationships...