Word: stoicly
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...official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than the passion for sainthood. She could only sigh with stoic disenchantment: "What hope can there be. for one who is neither worthy of heaven nor of hell?" This line sums up perfectly a kind of moral neutralism that did not end with Madame de Sévign...
...duties, typical of all the Children's Hospital volunteers, involve playing cards and checkers, sewing, knitting and reading to the youngsters. The work, she finds, "is never a chore. Occasionally in post-surgery cases we have a real problem in cheering up kids. At first they're usually every stoic, and then they'll scream until you think that they'll never stop. But they're much braver than...
...even though most responsible military authorities abhor the Chinese atrocities, their Stoic code of conduct asks American prisoners to accept them without flinching. If the code allowed prisoners to sign all confessions demanded in violation of the Geneva Convention, on the other hand, the enemy's incentive for torture would disappear. The Communist captors would receive a plethora of confessions--the same confessions they now extract more painfully. Confessions signed so freely would convince no one who does not already believe the "confessions" Chinese Communists have obtained through unspeakable torture. Prisoners of war already carry too many burdens...
...staffs. The meals alone involved prodigious waste: one massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew. The host would often perform a ceremony roughly equivalent to lighting a cigar with a $100 bill: he ladled out the savory fish oil onto the fire. The stoic guests proved themselves unimpressed by sitting motionless even when the flames blistered their legs and set fire to their bearskin robes...
...emperor he proves ruthless and gifted, fighting the imperial wars, defending the Roman peace, reorganizing Britain and the Rhine frontier. Above all, the book shows how the soldier-monarch, despite his successes in holding together the large, unwieldy empire, turns inward and becomes more and more the scholarly stoic, meditating on history, immortality and death. His last words are: "Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...