Word: stoicism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like letting it all hang out. Our culture long ago lost touch with - in fact, came to despise - the virtues that an earlier generation would have called "Roman," like honor, restraint and stoicism. That's one reason for celebrating those individuals for whom such qualities were second nature...
That sounds a bit disingenuous considering the frenzy she's creating, but Sorenstam is sticking to her Scandinavian stoicism. "I'm very competitive, but at the end, golf is just a game," she says. Oh yeah? Just tell that to the boys. --With reporting by Meredith Lennox/London, Adam Pitluk/Fort Worth and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
...ROLE OF HOST... In films, BRUCE WILLIS has conveyed stoicism in confronting killer asteroids (Armageddon), creepy kids (The Sixth Sense) and evil terrorists (Die Hards 1, 2 and 3). But no amount of acting could mask the white-hot fear he felt facing a live audience as the emergency host of Late Show with David Letterman. Willis was tapped at the last minute when Letterman, suffering from an eye infection (which turned out to be shingles), called in sick for the first time in 20 years, not counting his absence for bypass surgery. The actor, who was scheduled...
...whole production is tinted with a dark thread of violence, mostly manifested in Ulysses himself, but clearly felt by everyone on stage as well as in the audience. Maintaining this theme is no easy task, and Derrah handles it with a firm and deep stoicism...
...eyes of family members change too. My brother Ron's eyes show the sweet stoicism that men seem born to possess. But looking more intently, I see the bubble of pain beneath the surface. A father's helplessness has to tear at the fibers of a son's heart like a dull blade. My own eyes have too much history in them, I often think. I was the little girl who worshipped her father, and the young woman who hurt him the way daughters do when their love is needy and true. Now I look at him in a soft...