An indifference to pleasure or pain.
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Examples for "stoicism "
Examples for "stoicism "
1 Bower admires his intelligence, stoicism and, contrary to popular belief, hard work.
2 However, consumer morale edged up in February with British households showing stoicism .
3 The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.
4 His strong passionate nature was in general compressed down with resolute stoicism .
5 England is fighting heroically, stoically; but her stoicism is a vital mistake.
1 The stolidity of stupidity is, of course, commonest among the peasant class.
2 Syme received the remark with stolidity , imagining it to be a joke.
3 Her grave demeanor, now lapsing into apparent stolidity , can be readily understood.
4 Five and a half feet of stolidity , he'd done well at Shiloh.
5 There is no stolidity so utter as that of a waterless tap.
1 The lad looked at Mr. Heatherbloom as he shouted; that gentleman returned his gaze with unflinching stolidness .
2 His quiet, impersonal manner never suggested stolidness .
3 At the end of two months he-even he-wasforced to admit that they listened with stolidness , with apathy.
4 She had felt, many times before, a slowing up in conversations-shehad seen the bitterness drain from Ella's face, the stolidness from Bennie's.
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