Word: stoicism
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...campus. Friday was the official day of mourning for the dead, both in Virginia and around the country. On the Drill Field at noon, thousands had gathered to write messages of love and remembrance on easels and light candles in the chapel. But even amid public acts of mourning, stoicism reigned. Rob Yanskie, a childhood friend of Caitlin Millar Hammaren, who was killed in Norris Hall, bent down to touch a stone to be dedicated in her name, one of 32 arranged in a half-circle on the grass. He had driven from New York with another of Hammaren...
...broader sense, The Sopranos is about male baby-boomer American leadership in an age of irreconcilable demands and diminished expectations. As a Mob boss and a family man, Tony is caught between what he is and what he imagines himself to be. He cannot muster the stoicism the past demanded of men nor the sensitivity the present does. He whines to his therapist and "goes about in pity" for himself (the quote is from an Ojibwe proverb that Tony reads and that he believes applies only to other people), yet he longs for the days when men were strong...
...something, it's funny - a good review goes over the head, and a bad review goes through my heart. And I look at what my father coped with on a much, much more personal basis. I don't know how he did it. It took a sort of stoicism and a kind of stamina. But he did do the best he could with what he had at hand during the rest of his life...
...eyes to the things lacking in his own life, such as the liberation of free thinking, the passion of reciprocated love, and the melody that comes from various arrangements of keys on a piano. To the audience’s surprise, as well as Wiesler’s, the stoicism of the Stasi agent is gradually edged away through his close contact with Dreyman’s life. The elegant internal conflict that Wiesler experiences is the predominant struggle in the film, as what he stands for begins to crumble and his loyalties shift from the GDR to the greater...
...Queensland psychiatrist Brett McDermott, "but a lot of people, once they're in a safe place, experience a more intense emotional response." The danger for Webb and Russell is post-traumatic stress disorder, whose many and varied symptoms can take up to a decade to emerge. Relative levels of stoicism aren't pointers to the onset of this illness, which has its roots in the survival instinct common to all of us. "I've had several patients who've been buried alive," says psychiatrist McFarlane, "and it's an overwhelmingly intense experience. You might do everything you can to forget...