Sentence examples for stoic reality from inspiring English sources
"If I Could," a hymnlike song tucked quietly in the middle of the album, offers simple kindness: "Whatever it would take, I'd be willing to give," she sings, with a stoic reality check, "If I could".
In some countries, citizens accept corruption as a day-to-day reality with stoic silence, while in others they are determined to fight against it.
Do these objects reveal something about her daily reality that her stoic visage belies?
It is a nostalgia for the state of being repressed – solid, stoic, public spirited, as opposed to the depoliticised, hysterical and privatised reality of Britain over the last 30 years.
Television's highlights offer incomprehensible, adulterous cockneys weeping in a pub, or comely toffs being stoic in a stately home, and that's pretty much it until reality TV stars begin advertising white goods in the January sales.
Plutarch wanted to show that Stoic and Epicurean ethics rest on mistaken assumptions about human nature and reality, which render their ethical doctrines useless (De virtute morali, De Stoicorum repugnantiis 1041E-1043A, De communibus notitiis 1060B-1073D).
Three years ago, in a madcap alternate-reality Brooklyn, a daring but jaded criminal and his stoic first mate learned to care again by protecting an otherworldly young woman from the various factions seeking to exploit her strange powers.
Those stoic householders who stuck it out until now are finally leaving, as the reality of unchanging water levels and lack of electricity and heating become too much.
And mind, many have said -- since the Stoics and before -- is what projects our imperfect longings and understanding onto reality.
