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Indifferent to pain, as one should be
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stoic
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoic \Sto"ic\, Stoical \Sto"ic*al\, a. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sto["i]que. See Stoic , n.] Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines. Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing ...
Usage examples of stoic.
Tully is speaking there according to the opinions of the Stoics, who did not give the name of passions to all, but only to the disorderly movements of the sensitive appetite.
Stoic, just as he was a prig and a polygamist and several other unpleasant and heathen things.
Corporal Scithers, was stoic, a quiet young man when others were around, but when alone with his commander he could rattle on endlessly about weapons and vehicles and other military matters.
Sceptics, or decide with the Stoics, sublimely speculate with Plato, or severely argue with Aristotle.
He tended to smile, while his companion was stoic of expression in keeping with his Amerind tradition.
Bruce Cook, a slim, personable, slightly balding grown-up version of the brainiest kid you ever knew in high school, provided a contrast to Allan Ropper, with his more athletic bearing, stoic square-jawed countenance, and full head of graying hair.
From a stoic swamp Yankee to a reserved federal agent to a brash aspiring criminologist, who obviously knew her own mind.
Of the four most celebrated schools, the Stoics and the Platonists endeavored to reconcile the jarring interests of reason and piety.
Stoic and Aristotelian syllogistic and dialectic method used also by his Monarchian opponents.
Davy Hansen was too much the stoic Norski to show surprise if he could help it.
Even the stoic Klingon seemed horrified by the scope of what Sela was discussing so calmly.
Secondly, the satiric voice in both poets shifts in tone, topic, and values from section to section and line to line, avoiding universal statements as a matter of principle, and condemning whoever, Stoic or Tory, uses universals as a source of unworthy power.
Stoic and Epicurean, and you both think, I fear, that if Xanthippe had founded a school, my philosophy would also be defined.
The influence of the Stoic and Epicurean philosophies of Nova Babylonia was evident in her doctrines, and deplored.
The big herbivores turned to face the rain, stoic misery in their posture.