Word: stoics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meeting, an unusually stoic Summers reiterated his apology, saying he “made a serious mistake” in his remarks on women in science last month...
...Dangerous to Know was a film version of Edgar Wallace's On the Spot, which Wong had played on Broadway. She's the "hostess," i.e. mistress, of a gangster (Akim Tamiroff) with potent political connections. While he does all the heavy acting, she stands by, stoic and steaming, as, essentially, a housekeeper in her own house. She hasn't much more to do in the 1939 Island of Lost Men, where the strong man is J. Carrol Naish as the Oriental plantation boss Gregory Prin. She's a nightclub singer ("China Lily - Songstress of the Orient") and, again...
...mysterious man in a cowboy hat stood to the extreme left of the stage, crouching over his piano and harmonica allowing his four-piece band to take focus on the center of the stage. Dylan’s expressionless face and his band’s stoic cool while performing (except for one humorous break in countenance during “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright,”) gave the concert an understated intensity and cool intimacy...
Inpublic,ChristopherReeveusuallyplayed the stoic, silently enduring the indignities of paralysis. In private, he was more candid. He had vowed, shortly after the 1995 horseback-riding injury that left him a quadriplegic, that he would walk again by his 50th birthday. That milestone came--and went--in 2002. "I'm tired of being noble," he confessed shortly afterward in a long conversation with TIME. "I try to go about this with as much dignity as I can, but not a day goes by when I don't make some effort to get out of this situation...
...been favored to write the new, golden chapter to his country's somber Olympic history. He'd won a bronze in Atlanta, then failed to qualify for Sydney and quit the sport. But early retirement was not an ending the "sportaholic" could stomach, even if his stoic demeanor hid it, says his longtime girlfriend, Michal Peleg. "He doesn't like to lose. At anything. You know the saying ?the calm before the storm'? That's him - and there is a storm." It stirred in 2002, when Fridman came back to the sport and won the world championship. But rumors...