The word 'stoicism' is correct and can be used in written English.
Stoicism is a philosophical endeavor of accepting things and accepting life as it is. You can use it to refer to a philosophical attitude or the quality of the trait. For example, "Even in the face of adversity, his stoicism was admirable."
This period may have been an element of what attracted him to Babette's Feast – the contrast between French hedonism and Danish stoicism.
A central notion of Stoicism, the philosophical doctrine with which Seneca is most closely identified, was the idea that being virtuous is the only truly beneficial thing, and the only thing that can make a person truly happy: wealth, like health, freedom and status, is a merely "indifferent thing".
Dr Sigman may well be right but rather intriguingly Völler proved the exception to the rule by refusing to retaliate in any way, aggressively or otherwise, bearing his multiple punishments and degradations at the hands of both referee and opponent with a stoicism that bordered on the truly heroic.
Related: Chibok kidnapping: stoicism and security demands as girls remembered The fervour was also mocked by American conservatives who dismissed it as "simply an exercise in self esteem", that would be of no concern to the Nigerian Islamist group.
With the dark humour of Nemirovsky and the humanity of a Camus, Constance Miles (Mrs Miles's Diary - Simon & Schuster) records the familiar stoicism of civilians in WWII but also the panic, financial ruin and the "Blitz Shock".
Related: Chibok kidnapping: one year on, hope and stoicism as girls remembered South Africa has a chequered history of exporting soldiers of fortune.
Related: Chibok kidnapping: stoicism as girls taken by Boko Haram are remembered Boko Haram has been fighting to impose sharia law across Nigeria's north for the last six years, massacring civilians and kidnapping thousands of women and children, most notoriously a group of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok.
Tsiolkas candidly admitted that he is caught between admiring that attitude and the stoicism and camaraderie of the men of his father's generation, and his writing comes from that contradiction.
Like most Cubans, he had no car; he biked or walked barefoot, or waited for a fume-spilling bus with that patience and stoicism that calms down stress.
"We are at last discarding the idea that the state is more important than individual initiative".To comply with the euro area's stability-pact limit on budget deficits of 3% of GDP, Mr Durão Barroso's government imposed a string of tough austerity measures, and urged stoicism when the country then suffered the sharpest recession in Europe (see chart).
For now, Georgians will most likely face them with their customary blend of stoicism, cynicism, and red wine.
