Word: stoicism
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...would do the job, Franklin once explained his theory so thoroughly to John Adams that he put the future President to sleep.) There are certain cold sufferers, true, who snuffle around telling everybody that the affliction is not as bad as it is cracked up to be, but their stoicism does not require them to talk any less about...
...Right!" cried Iowa Bob-an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. "Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature," Coach Bob declared...
...stodginess but all of the cool of the great old heroines. Karen Allen plays Jones's companion with a wonderful blend of humor, cynicism and toughness--a hardy, reliable beauty whose prettiness is just a little bit off and who is a perfect counterpart to Indiana's laconic stoicism. Allen was wonderful in The Wanderers and then, for reasons best known to God, also starred in the abysmal Small Circle of Friends. Allen has always exuded more energy, though, than her troglodyte roles were willing to deal with. But in Raiders, Allen is allowed...
...novels have a tendency to slip into lugubriousness and slick schematism. Felicitas' college days contain too much stock footage from the dopey '60s, and though Cyprian's followers illustrate the spiritual dependency of women in a male-dominated church, they remain only illustrations - sketches of romanticized stoicism...
Thus, with mournful stoicism, an embattled Menachem Begin accepted near demise of his government last week and called for new elections. The Minister's move climaxed weeks of indecision following the collapse of his Likud coalition over a hotly disputed pay raise for the country'sschoolteachers. It set Israel's Knesset to squabbling over the precise timing of the election. It also sent the country's political parties scrambling for advantage in what promises to become one of Israel's most heated and bitterly contested campaigns...