Sentence examples for stoic acceptance from inspiring English sources

Instinctive deference and a stoic acceptance of one's dissatisfactions had yet to be abandoned.

Jack awarded her many purple hearts for her stoic acceptance of life with him.

That stoic acceptance of human limitations and the cyclical nature of taste also ran through Ms. Lacey's predictions about performance.

Runners who'd trained for weeks for the event turned away from the finish line in bewildered but stoic acceptance.

You are asked only to bear the inconveniences caused by his absence with a little of the same stoic acceptance.

The ensuing mood of stoic acceptance, for all the day-to-day, safety-valve grumbling, did not last for ever.

Ms. Stritch's version turned it into a stoic, good-natured acceptance of mortality.

Sometimes it seemed anything but, yet they exhibited a stoic calm, an unshakeable acceptance of the hand that life had dealt them.

There was a gradual progression in the evolution of later Stoic philosophy to allow the acceptance of the "preferable" things and this erosion of principle led to many attacks on Stoicism from other philosophical quarters.

Many historians have argued that this Stoic principle helped to prepare for the acceptance of Christianity, in which, according to St .Paul, the Apostle, there is neither Jew nor Greek, free nor slave, male nor female.

Whenever you expressed a wish for things to be different, some rough-hewn stoic would be on hand to remind you that passive acceptance would banish disappointment or dissatisfaction.