Stoical

After awhile he moved, lifted his head, and looked about him dully at first and then with a certain stoical acceptance of his plight. ❋ Unknown (1914)

London River, on the other hand, is a quiet, understated picture, an exercise in what might be called stoical realism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The warriors stared at him with what might be called a stoical surprise. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

Our very word "stoical" is a synonym for calm indifference to pleasure or to pain. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)

With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. ❋ Unknown (1940)

It was a place where feelings were liberated from the constraint which the real world puts upon them; and the process of awakenment was always marked by resignation and a kind of stoical acceptance of facts. ❋ Unknown (1920)

But there was no shock; I took the whole revelation in a kind of stoical way. ❋ James Weldon Johnson (1904)

In prosperous times he spent generously, although habitually practising a kind of stoical severity in regard to his private affairs. ❋ Frank Preston Stearns (1881)

Women, on the other hand, were more likely to adopt a "stoical" ❋ Unknown (2011)

Women, on the other hand, were more likely to adopt a "stoical" attitude and soldier on in silence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The reporter referred to him as "stoical," but I get it: Thanks to a faulty attic fan, his life was in flames and all he could do was stand there and watch. ❋ Heather Havrilesky (2010)

He preaches fortitude and courage in the face of the mysterious and the inevitable -- a courage, indeed, forlorn and pathetic in the eyes of many -- and he constantly takes refuge from the choking cares of life, in a kind of stoical resignation. " ❋ Matthew Arnold (1855)

"So far, indeed, was I from this kind of stoical indifference, that, rushing at once into the very opposite extreme, I returned, or rather flew back to her without an instant's reflection. ❋ Abb�� Pr��vost (1730)

And here was stoical new valet Mr Bates, his lordship's loyal former batman, carrying a shrapnel wound from the Boer war and now proving a drain on staff morale on account of his limp – 1912 not quite being ready for employees with special needs. ❋ Phil Hogan (2010)

My mother took me to the hospital to visit Dad and tried to be stoical about it, but I could see how upset she was. ❋ Joseph Pierce Farrell (2011)

Then came a long period of bodily privation; of daily hunger after food; and though he tried to persuade himself he could bear want himself with stoical indifference, and did care about it as little as most men, yet the body took its revenge for its uneasy feelings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We are all fine, though the earthquake itself was a kind of nightmare," a usually stoical Japanese colleague wrote to me. ❋ Terry Kelhawk (2011)