Word: stoicism
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...more egregious, and widely committed, offenses of sloganeering has been the overuse of derivatives of Reebok's "Life is Short...Play Hard." I've always thought the slogan a rather curious blend of epicurianism and stoicism. Reebok plays to the American propensity for play, but also to the remnants of our Protestant work ethic, reminding us that Life is Short, and so any playing must be done sedulously. Sweaty joggers and wellmuscled mountain-bikers parrot the line with fitter-than-thou reproachfulness...
...nonchalance; his reserveddemeanor suggests somehow that it was there tobegin with and that he was just going along witheveryone else) and this infuriates her and leadsher to smear garish cosmetics on her face, quaff awhole bottle of gin, and make a humiliating scene.Everyone else gets irritated with his stoicism aswell, and Maxim is put in the ludicrous positionof having to punch his rival for not sleeping withhis lover. The most significant subplot involvesthe physical decline of one of Camille's agingformer teachers, who tellingly describes the youngCamille as "a smooth, hard little girl" withunderlying passions. Stephane's eventual role inthe...
Under this double-pronged assault from foes and "friends," Bush has generally maintained a flinty stoicism. "It's tough now, but I know it's going to be O.K.," he calmly told one group of advisers. "I've been through this before, and I know my timing is right. This is my last campaign, and I'm going...
...such a boring couple," I always whine. And for a while, I had him believing that it was the fault of his cold, unromantic Yankee Stoicism that we frequented the Hong Kong and talked about Scheme Z more often than we took lingering walks along the Charles under the full moonlight, exchanging intimate secrets...
...happiness" -- their own personal happiness). That expectation, which can make Americans charming and unreasonable and shallow, is part of their formula for success. But it has led Americans into absurdities and discontents that others who know life better might never think of. The frontiersman's self-sufficiency and stoicism in the face of pain belong now in some wax museum of lost American self- images...