What is "stoical"

Usage examples of "stoical".

So the leftovers were all of the proletariat and peasantry, who took their turnaway with a stoical shrug and a whipped-dog grin.

He was in a mood to cherish warmly the funny, cold little culture that the street represented, the narrow unamiable culture with its taboos against mentioned reality, its elaborate suppression of sex, its insistence on a stoical ability to withstand a monotonous routine of business or drudgery -- and in the midst, performing the necessary rituals to keep dead ideas alive, like a college of witch-doctors in their stern stone tents, powerful, property-owning Hempnell.

One was myself, alert for auspicious falls of the cards, yet stoical and undepressed when a deal promising to be almost too easy for interest was suddenly blocked by some trifling card.

The next step to Stoical perfection was, the class of Pursuits and Avoidances 2 As the Desires and Aversions are simple affections, the Pursuits and Avoidances are exertions of the active powers towards the procuring or declining anything.

Zeno, however, soon founded his own school of Stoical philosophy, which was violently opposed by Arcesilas (Cicero, Acad. Post.

And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, 1789.

Bush was tense and excited, as far as his stoical training and phlegmatic temperament would allow him to be.

Bitterbuck was stoical on the outside, in the tradition of his tribe, but I could see his fear of the end growing inside him like a poison flower.

Every man who both thinks and feels will have his alternations of hope and depression, tender-heartedness and stoical contempt.