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1 She is stoical, stubborn, smart and, with echoes of another great American icon of self-deception, somewhat reminiscent of Holden Caulfield's little sister, Phoebe.

2 The performances are appropriately stoical, and Mr. Bale, Ms. Pike and Mr. Studi share the ability to evoke people from an earlier time without dimming their movie-star charisma.

3 Instead of a hug we have made do with the distant wave of a gloved hand and a grimly stoical smile.

4 Ms. Lynn and her band don’t copy reggae’s beat, but they have fully absorbed its stoical steadfastness and economy.

5 It also includes two of cinema's most memorable characters in the vulnerable but tough heroine Sarah and the Terminator itself, which manages to develop a personality through Schwarzenegger's stoical, charmingly direct robotic performance.

6 Finland is a country of weary, stoical sad sacks, with sagging faces, who sit behind desks, eat bland food and play in rockabilly bands.

7 It’s a tune of stoical yearning, the yawp of a dude bemoaning the end of a seasonal romance.

8 Whereas Ludwig Wittgenstein once compared philosophers to garbage men sweeping the mind clean of wrongheaded concepts, Nussbaum believes they should be "lawyers for humanity"—a phrase she borrows from Seneca, her favorite Stoic thinker.

9 One stoical soul who has been working with Wiley in recent years told me he once received a phonecall on Christmas morning, while opening presents with family.

10 In the closing section, the author throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries — perhaps the stoics?

11 But Mr. Stewart is on a similarly brave and stoical walk through the dark side: he’s committed to both seducing and burning his listeners.

12 Paige occasionally shows a flicker of fear or a flare of impatience, but the insistence on Zola’s stoical, capable good sense puts other, potentially messier possibilities out of reach.

13 He had a stoic expression on his face.

14 The story of a stoical restaurateur who takes a Syrian asylum-seeker under his wing, it won him the best director prize in Berlin earlier this year.

15 Now there will be a lot of stoical talk from HIV specialists about what can be learned from the setback.

16 The stoical Big Mama loses it when she discovers, too late to make other plans, that she earns just enough money not to qualify for the new apartment.

17 Though his experience of the first Arab-Israeli war is by turns farcical, brutal and heartbreaking, he endures it all with stoical grace.

18 The stoical widower, the satellite relatives, the shadowy ancestors passing silent judgment on the present — these are fixtures of Maxwell’s imagined world, plucked from the stream of his own experience.

19 Among the inhabitants are stoical farmers, gun-toting soldiers, singers and drummers, mothers with babies, and kids waving flags.

20 Not everything is terrible, and Nathalie is too stoical, too analytical and too much of an ironist to engage in self-pity.

1 坚忍的

patient

2 斯多噶学派的

stoic

3 淡泊

detachment quietism plain stoicism

4 禁欲的

continent monastic austere chaste ascetic puritanical celibate abstinent

5 禁欲主义

ascetic asceticism monasticism

6 泰然

stoically impassively

7 高度自制

Stoicism

8 淡泊的

plain

9 不以苦乐为意

stoicism

10 忍耐的

patient forbearing

11 坚强的

robust strong sturdy hard forceful tough-minded

12 坚忍

patient patiently stoically patience stoicism Stoicism fortitude

13 禁欲主义的

ascetic

14 斯多噶学派

stoic porch

15 禁欲

continent monastic austere chaste ascetic puritanical chastity celibacy continence Stoicism celibate mortification self-denial abnegation ascesis askesis abstinent abstinence