Sentence examples for great stoicism from inspiring English sources

She is, I think, genuinely besotted with her husband Kevin, a self-made millionaire who owns the courier service Premier Despatch and appears to have stood by her with great stoicism.

There were reckoned to be fewer than 500 British here this year, and coming from a modest generation that bore its suffering with great stoicism, they often react shyly to this limelight.

"I know that the battalion, its families and the regiment as a whole will, with great stoicism, pride and professionalism carry on in a manner that would have made our three men proud".

Sillitoe is a great believer in stoicism.

His struggle with cancer was conducted with great courage and stoicism, greater, perhaps, than loved ones may have wished.

With time Naruse became a great poet of stoicism and quiet despair.

What you should do, he says, is take a deep breath, sweep aside your unuseful emotions and apply the eminently sensible reasoning of the Roman philosopher Seneca, a great expositor of Stoicism and a firsthand student of the cruel hand of fate.

Friends of mine actually emailed me to make sure the poor gal was OK (she handled the news with great dignity and stoicism, if you're curious).

Hemingway's old man sat in his becalmed fishing boat and thought of the great DiMaggio and his stoicism.

For three days, she keeps her phone on airplane mode, an act that she feels "should be counted among the great examples of personal stoicism and moral endurance of our times".

In mood, it's an update of Greatest Generation heartiness and stoicism; Crowe offers that mood as a common-sense sincerity that rumbles down the middle of the road, as a great unifier that glides past the off-ramps of personal gratification and endemic cynicism.