Sentence examples for stoical from inspiring English sources

Eyre said he had "talked at length" with Norris – advising him that at times he would need to be stoical and that the most enjoyable part of the job was "taking pleasure in others' successes".

We had to be fairly stoical and keep it all a secret.

"She's pretty stoical.

He is stoical now.

"The path to survival lay in stoical acceptance".

Tourists, too, appear surprisingly stoical: on the morning after the blasts, more visitors were strolling along the waterfront than thronging the airport.

Ms Nicholson shows us these people again, not as comic cartoons but as spirited and stoical precursors of modern feminism.

Those who did like her found her kind, wise, stoical, funny, reticent, brilliant and generous".

Among Irish voters, the arrival of so-called rescuers from Washington and Brussels has met with mixed emotions: in part stoical resignation, but also outrage at their country's mendicant condition and apparent loss of sovereignty.

But it is conceivable that the emerging three-man presidential council may propose to keep the stoical Mr Allawi as prime minister.It has not all been unremitting gloom and doom.

They were greeted by a barrage of insults and death threats.The islanders, who want to stay British, are stoical about the Argentine measures.