Word: stoicly
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...Bush for ignoring his presidential duties as an empathizer. Not enough emotion, Broder suggests, is emanating from the Bush White House. In the midst of the (fairly short) Hainan Island standoff, the midwestern floods, the riots in Cincinnati, the rising gasoline prices, writes Broder, President Bush has been uncommunicative, "stoic to the point of reticence...
...Lefika is the innocent prankster on the court, Harvard co-captain Deepak Abraham is the consummate professional. He is stoic and focused, and he is determined to make every shot count. He's also got a lot to teach his fellow opponents because he too has played throughout the world and knows what it means to excel...
While the stoic Abraham had difficulty finding a rhythm, Lagontse remained loose and seemed not to be bothered by nerves...
They did not wear saffron robes, nor was their desperate act immortalized in a photograph of bright flames engulfing stoic martyrs. Instead, they were wrapped in somber padded jackets, and their fiery protest was captured only on a grainy T.V. clip. But like the self-immolating monks of Saigon nearly four decades ago, the five believers who quietly doused themselves with gasoline in Tiananmen Square last week seemed to be lighting a torch for their spiritual survival...
...third and fifth grades to be twice skipped ahead by half-grades. By the time he reached junior high school, he was the youngest, smallest boy in the class. He felt lost, unsure of himself. With no one to turn to, he made loneliness, insecurity and a stoic acceptance of life's defeats his earliest personal themes. At the same time, he possessed a strong independent streak and grew increasingly stubborn and competitive as life and its injustices, real and imagined, piled...