stoical

How to use stoical in a sentence

He faced his loss with stoical fortitude, as I believe he would have confronted any disaster that life could bring.

His gravity, his intellectual life, his almost stoical philosophy impressed her imagination and captivated her understanding.

He studied Madame Roland with even more of stoical apathy than another man would study a book which he admires.

He remembered her strange, almost stoical calm, in such contrast with her wild agitation now.

THEY LOOKED AND LOVEDMRS. ALEX MCVEIGH MILLER

He had seemed at first glance a stoical person; but his deep-set, brown eyes were bright with good humor.

The unfortunate candidate presents himself before one of the examiners, and settles his face into a perfectly stoical expression.

His wound pained him, but the agitation of his mind and his own stoical nature caused him to pay no heed to it.

But steady resolve and stoical self-denial, easy enough in theory, are often bitterly hard in practice.

SWORD AND GOWNGEORGE A. LAWRENCE

Ah, there is that evil demon of his life!that cold, stoical pride, which haunts him like a fate.

All the goods of life he tasted with epicurean zest; all the evils he bore with stoical indifference.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985