Word: stoics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this Beanpot agony? Bill Cleary has mentioned "psychology," "luck" and shrugged it off with the stoic remark, "These things happen...
...thrived on the demanding schedule, tumult and attention of the campaign. Sandy Bakalar, a close friend, says, "Kitty was going 1,000 miles a minute. Then on Nov. 8 it was suddenly over. It was a terrible loss." Her husband, meanwhile, handled the loss in his usual stoic fashion. "Kitty had to do the mourning for both of them," says Richard Gaines, editor of the Boston Phoenix, who has long reported on the Dukakis family...
There are scenes of harrowing violence and terrible brutality, made more shocking by their matter-of-fact presentation. A hanging on the trail is so swift and morally disturbing that the unsuspecting viewer is left breathless. Suffusing it all is McCrae's stoic resignation in the face of misfortune. "Yesterday's gone; we can't get it back," he tells a man grieving over three murdered bodies. "You go on with your diggin', and I'll tidy up the dead." In its terse prairie poetry, Lonesome Dove celebrates not just the old West but also the men who could witness...
Coach Tom Landry, the team's stoic and brilliant tactician, did television advertisements for Bibles and spoke of his personal relationship with Jesus...
...mother was not as stoic. She cried hysterically as a hardened representative of the Humana Hospital--Greenbrier Valley in Fairlea, West Virginia loudly demanded assurance that she could pay for her son's treatment...