And my definition of stoicism ... Back then it meant what?
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George Washington brings stoicism to America during the American Revolution.
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""Being a leader is achieved through stoicism, discipline and sacrifice.
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But Leonard's stoicism did not sit well with the Internet.
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In fact, the market's string of stoicism is downright historical.
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It's the kind of stoicism her character would absolutely have.
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Darnold's father used to call him Flatline, for his stoicism.
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Ms. Sanchez inherited that stoicism from her mother, she said.
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And yet, could this stoicism also be Pete's greatest weakness?
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Or is he just "selling stoicism" to make a buck?
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It is the stoicism of ancestral pride and present realism.
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I want to send my 11 year old to stoicism school.
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"MANNING up" normally refers to stoicism in the face of hardship.
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Tom Brady enjoys stoicism, but he does not deny himself joy.
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Mr. Gerim's industriousness shows at the protests, as does his stoicism.
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All the long-faced stoicism suggests that this is miserable work.
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Practicing Stoicism helps you remain leveled throughout the highs and lows.
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Hite's tenacity and stoicism drove him to succeed despite difficult circumstances.
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But they were illustrating the principles of Stoicism, knowingly or unknowingly.
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But investors' stoicism could face greater tests in the coming weeks.
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She was pushing into their improvising space, rejecting demureness or stoicism.
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Now, he is harnessing his considerable marketing prowess to sell Stoicism.
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Hearing this story, I understood more of my friend's elegant stoicism.
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He had the same handsomely etched face, but not the stoicism.
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That stoicism won her comparisons to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
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Forest fires shape the response of native Californians into something like stoicism.
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This stoicism can also make Keough sound like an unintentionally comedic robot.
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Ferriss first learned about Stoicism during a particularly trying time in 2004.
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Washington's Hill is a pillar of sober stoicism and grace under pressure.
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But caving in to that impulse runs counter to my native stoicism.
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I wrote a book about Stoicism called The Obstacle is the Way.
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Marketing is what he does, he said; Stoicism is who he is.
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Here, the artist paradoxically imbues his patent stoicism with an underlying, frenetic energy.
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It's also nothing compared to the lazy men-are-men stoicism of Bleachers.
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In their own minds it was not stoicism that sustained them but defeatism.
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He traded his goalie mask for a cap, his stoicism for a scowl.
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He also influenced the culture of the game, through his hard-nosed stoicism.
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Higginbottom's stoicism didn't surprise his son David, and it didn't fool him either.
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In many cases that stoicism was passed down to their children and grandchildren.
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Clinton and Patterson's fictional commander in chief brims with humanity, character and stoicism.
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If a royal personage had died, the palace was behaving with remarkable stoicism.
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The result is riveting: a battle between stoicism and emotion, professionalism and sentiment.
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There's a subset of Americans who overvalue our stoicism, who see it as projecting a kind of calm, steady strength to those around us, and to the rest of the world when all of that stoicism combines into a national aggregate.
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Eugene Delacroix who paints "Liberty Leading the People," he said stoicism was his religion.
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He also explains why the ancient Roman philosophy of stoicism is still resonating today.
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I felt I had to write a book about Stoicism — that was my calling.
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Some stoicism will always be needed, because health care is complex and diligence matters.
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Hemingway was a master not of a realized stoicism but of a wounded epicureanism.
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Stucky is verbose and charismatic, while Sturckow is known for his stoicism and intensity.
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"Some day, the water is going to come back," Zigun said, with cheery stoicism.
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The mothers of slain young men exude regal stoicism, holding photographs of their sons.
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Karate etiquette demands stoicism, but the skepticism in the ranks was not entirely disguised.
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But for the veterans like middle schoolers and high school teens, there is stoicism.
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Our national personality exists somewhere between America and Britain on the earnestness-stoicism index.
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Today's farm families require more than their own stoicism to endure today's multifaceted struggles.
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Epicureanism and stoicism are probably two of the most perverted words in the English language.
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What is the connection between stoicism and dunking yourself in freezing water at 5 am?
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This very independence will lead Trump's voters to accept their new vice president with stoicism.
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This advice is sound enough, but Waldman writes perhaps too admiringly of the Republicans' stoicism.
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The men in these photographs smoke their pipes, cigars, and cigarettes with stoicism and élan.
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There is Aesop, and Stoicism, which Adeney recently discovered in a book of pop philosophy.
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Is he sincere in his quest to spread the benefits of a life of stoicism?
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Then there were others that I felt swallowed unpleasant news in a kind of quieter stoicism.
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Confronted with these challenges, the chancellor appears to have decided to retreat into a monarchic stoicism.
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But where the Warriors are loose and effervescent, the Spurs play with an almost ascetic stoicism.
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How will you raise your kids differently after studying stoicism and other ancient wisdom and philosophies?
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He chatted with practiced stoicism about the risks of his job: The helicopters are always broken.
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His stoicism, his dexterity, his unerring calm, his gift for narrative storytelling — they were all pathbreaking.
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He knows when to pop rivets and bend structures, add histrionics as well as saltwater stoicism.
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When Pisces season begins, we can expect feelings galore, so enjoy the stoicism while it lasts!
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One of the other things you do when you're not doing marketing is you talk about stoicism.
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So if we go from uncertainty and stoicism, where do things go in 10 or 15 years?
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The centered stoicism from leaders, however, could not douse the partisan blaze that the violent shooting ignited.
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NATURAL disasters such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma bring out Americans' sterling civic spirit, stoicism and selflessness.
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Dag gave them a jaunty wave, which they ignored with professional stoicism as they cased the joint.
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I remember John Stockton's stoicism, Dennis Rodman's tempestuousness, and Dikembe Mutombo's big grin behind a wagging finger.
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Brits can always be relied on for their stoicism and dry wit in the face of adversity.
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Rob: There's this conflation of fake stoicism, Cado: The only reason it didn't happen before was Misato.
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The character's stoicism and uncompromising forward drive don't allow enough nuance to leak in around the edges.
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His boasting, his cockiness, his stoicism—all were part of a plan to defy the established order.
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Those who have ridden the wave and endured the volatility have been greatly rewarded for their stoicism.
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Mr. Rosenstein addresses his own jeopardy with a blend of stoicism and black humor, according to friends.
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She acquires a pure physical strength here that bespeaks a hard, long lifetime of patience and stoicism.
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Despite his stoicism, her family wanted to let him know that they didn't expect him to stay.
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The neighbors used humor and Australian stoicism to deflect the pain of losing almost everything they owned.
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The country is proud of that stoicism, and on the whole, wishes to live up to it.
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That stoicism is fitting perhaps for someone whose life has been built on a refusal to despair.
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Stoicism can turn into a kind of flamboyance — hard-nosed commitment to form is rare and electric.
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There's a vulnerability to stoicism too, because it's saying I don't control that, I'm going to accept it.
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Why do you think stoicism is — seems to be — cresting now, at least in a pop culture sense.
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Stoicism in the face of pain may seem noble, but swearing a blue streak is apparently more helpful.
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Ms. Bartlett's extraordinary performance is a grim, deeply unsettling portrait of despair whose stoicism conveys an aching nobility.
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The majority of the examples I used were not people who studied or were explicit practitioners of Stoicism.
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So the most helpful clues to understanding Silicon Valley today may come from its favorite ancient philosophy: Stoicism.
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Successful entrepreneur Tim Ferriss avoids this by practicing "Stoicism" and only worrying about things that he can change.
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We associate numerous traits with different versions of manhood, including physical strength, courage, wisdom, stoicism, virtuousness, dominance, and wealth.
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In a culture that has long valued stoicism and self-reliance, what can bring people back from total withdrawal?
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In his stoicism for the really big traumatic events that life throws at you he is amazing, at least.
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And while he appears hardened by his past, his trademark stoicism quickly melts away as he bonds with Jake.
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She is hardly a picture of saintly stoicism, but a young woman subject to the usual range of emotions.
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Danny kept his head down and transferred his weight from foot to foot, working a kind of stage stoicism.
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And it's not just about having a good time; the English have learned to abandon stoicism and silent suffering.
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Stoicism has been the preferred viral philosophy "for a moment" for years now — or two decades, by one count.
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The topic of Stoicism usually comes up in the Valley in terms of the maintenance of the personal life.
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Trump, somewhat blurry in the foreground, was speaking, while Mattis, in sharp focus, regarded the president with mute stoicism.
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Instead of crying out, she inhaled sharply to indicate pain's repression—her stoicism a greater punishment for my conscience.
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This week I talked to Holiday about his books and how stoicism can help us all calm down and think.
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Mr. Banach said obstacles to using hospice services include a general lack of awareness and the stoicism of some veterans.
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As my first male role model, he set a default of stoicism that I've continued to follow to this day.
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In some ways, Mr. Biden became the human face of an administration led by a president known for robotic stoicism.
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And soon the trauma from what she initially passes off as a mugging has fractured her stoicism and her life.
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Some modern-day followers of Stoicism say Mr. Holiday's hipster-hustler persona is at odds with the philosophy's core principles.
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Along with layers, down and stoicism, plenty of Midwestern cities rely on these sorts of passages as answers to winter.
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In fact, they often poke fun at his stoicism, implying that he may be the hero, but he's not the star.
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For most of the cities in the path of the storm, including Houston, a sedentary stoicism seemed the most reasonable response.
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An aversion to over-the-top language from lawyers' pens does not mean the justices conduct themselves with robotic stoicism, however.
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A mythology of Anglo-Saxon purity and stoicism webbed itself around her, while the great Irish intuition explained her musical talent.
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Founded in the late '50s, ZERO's stoicism was prompted by the artists' surroundings: a destroyed postwar Europe, and a defeated Germany.
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She saw this as an affront to the stoicism with which both parents and the wider community should suffer screaming children.
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They didn't want a pillar of strength or stoicism; they wanted to see that she too felt what they were feeling.
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Mr. Holiday's efforts to rebrand Stoicism as a self-help system for overachievers doesn't sit well with some philosophers and academics.
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"The refugees accepted the situation with stoicism and understanding," Vassilis Karambidis, who runs the center, told Greece's state-run news agency.
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It can be awkward to witness, but also refreshing in contrast to the unreflective stoicism of many men in the profession.
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When you embark on major surgery, you learn soon enough that stoicism is not a quality the medical community especially admires.
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"Stoicism is a luxury and silence is a weapon for those who would quiet the voices of the people," Abrams declared.
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Jon Hamm came to personify a certain type of cool as Mad Men's Don Draper, all slick stoicism and chilly masculinity.
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Moonlight culminates with a Brokeback-style scene encouraging us to identify and sympathize with Chiron's masculine stoicism — much like Ennis Del Mar's.
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Can you imagine the studied stoicism of a multi-step skin-care routine having such a positive pull in an uncertain time?
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Its rigidity and stoicism, likely caused by the daguerreotype process — no one can smile forever — has perpetuated her image as Puritan recluse.
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" As Holiday told me: "The essence of Stoicism begins with making the distinction between what we control and what we don't control.
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Stage 4: Depression "His numbness or stoicism, his anger and rage will soon be replaced with a sense of great loss." p.
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Taylor McKimens explored stoicism with his acrylic paintings on wood; Mira Dancy conjured lyricism with sinuous lines of ink and acrylic statues.
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It's what makes the show hilarious: They deal with extremely exhausting public lives and an unending onslaught of drama with unfathomable stoicism.
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But I want to face my eventual decline with the same stoicism and grace that the animals in these photographs have shown.
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Breitweiser attributes these attacks to their owner's changed pheromonal odor and the iguana's characteristic stoicism that makes the reptiles hard to read.
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It should, as others have suggested, help inoculate boys against the stoicism and aggression some of them experience in their teenage years.
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"So it goes" tolls bright and solemn 106 times throughout the book, cunningly conveying fatalism, stoicism, acceptance and stubborn continuity each time.
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He actually has a kind of stoicism, I think, as if he is playing 100 percent in the moment at all times.
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The song's stoicism is the thing: it's hot out, but he won't remove his jacket, a tragicomic interpretation of tough guy posturing.
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They are under constant siege, but the only crack in their collective stoicism is the reliance on cameras to capture the chaos.
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Having built their identities around traditional notions of toughness and stoicism, many of these men are struggling with a new identity — #UsToo.
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"How does Pete Buttigieg feel?" by Ben Terris Stoicism, and how it came to define the first credible gay candidate for president.
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Rising unemployment among white, middle-aged men in northern England is directly juxtaposed with a working class identity of stoicism and strength.
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They move with self-sufficiency and stoicism among white doctors who seem increasingly haunted and lost, suffering their pangs of Western existentialism.
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He sits in a wheelchair, both legs amputated because of complications from untreated diabetes, and exudes a stoicism we see in others here.
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But Shyamalan's creaky dialogue and McAvoy's detached stoicism in the moment make that moment ring false, more lip service than a character beat.
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Insofar as she stresses the importance of flexibility, patience, and even stoicism in long-term relationships, her book bears a distinctly traditional message.
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Throw in a crew cut, stoicism and frequent shouting, and as far as I was concerned my father embodied the essence of manhood.
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Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton surely possess two of the most photogenic faces of the 20th century, contrasting images of haplessness and stoicism.
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Anyone, of any gender, may benefit from competitiveness on the sports field, or on the corporate ladder or from stoicism in a crisis.
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Two of the book's three sections are narrated by Donald, a Scottish-born optometrist living outside Boston who prides himself on his stoicism.
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In a stirring address, his stoicism building to a controlled simmer, Mr. Khan challenged Mr. Trump on behalf of "patriotic American Muslims" everywhere.
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As a new year approaches, stoicism will prevail, decency will prevail, contestation will prevail, over the Great Leader's plundering of truth and thought.
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An ancient Greek school of thought, Stoicism argued that the only real treasures in life were inner virtues, like self-mastery and courage.
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In photos, she appears calm and contemplative, so I thought it fun to play on her stoicism by making a really fun GIF.
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Charles, with his basilisk stoicism, will ultimately have to fight Solitary Love in an amphitheater, with a nearly naked Arabella rooting against him.
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"The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond," he said.
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BP: Reading through all the different interviews in the book, though, it seemed like this stoicism manifested itself in all sorts of different ways.
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This stoicism was implicit in Victorian institutions like the gold standard, free trade and balanced budgets, which tied governments' hands, for better or worse.
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" The APA notes a bevy of statistics to emphasize that "traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful.
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In a world where stoicism is valued above vulnerability, I consider revealing who you are and what you feel as evidence of true strength.
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Having built their identities around traditional notions of toughness and stoicism, many are struggling with a new identity — #MeToo, or in their case, #UsToo.
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In the Ip Man movies, Yen often emulates Gibson's love of martyrdom and suffering—physical and emotional—while facing the odds with incredible stoicism.
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J-Wick's tense stoicism gelled perfectly with the actor's dialed-back mode of performance, his restrained anguish a natural pose for Reeves to assume.
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" Tim Ferriss, the region's popular life hacker, wrote on his blog that Stoicism is "an ideal 'operating system' for thriving in high-stress environments.
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But many analysts reacted with something closer to grizzled stoicism, greeting the launch as dispiriting but unsurprising confirmation of North Korea's capabilities and intentions.
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But many ancient philosophies, such as Stoicism, and ancient religions, such as some elements of Hinduism, believed in the wheel of time (or kalachakra).
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On this song, you can almost hear the wetness in Pusha-T's rhymes, his typical stoicism traded for something a little short of breath.
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Derren Brown's (note, definitely not a Hufflepuff) book Happy as an anti–self help book structured around stoicism as it pertains to personal contentment.
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One of the book chapters is about "hacking meaning," which I found interesting because of the trends of Stoicism and mindfulness we see happening now.
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They also appear to have flipped how many Southern Baptists look on their decline, turning an attitude of righteous stoicism into something closer to panic.
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" For Holiday, Stoicism means taking responsibility for life, rather than letting life dictate the terms: "When I was at American Apparel, it was often chaos.
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It was doing things its own way, bucking the stolid stoicism of Mercedes-Benz's sedans and the in-your-face brashness of American muscle cars.
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In "The Light Between Oceans," Michael Fassbender exudes the war-weary stoicism of a man who has grown numb from witnessing too much senseless carnage.
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Mental health professionals also say the program has gone a long way to shrink the stigma of psychotherapy in a nation culturally steeped in stoicism.
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A doctor of six years, the likeable and relaxed 27-year-old looked weary but shrugged off any question of hardship with a casual stoicism.
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That distinction was a major reason for the partition, and for the decades of ethnonationalist violence referred to, with rueful Irish stoicism, as the Troubles.
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Some critics in Venice responded to this quiet stoicism by complaining that Armstrong was a boring character, as if space travel weren't riveting enough in itself.
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But this stoicism seeped not just into the way he dealt with the outside world, but also the way he raised my other influence: his son.
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For some users, their app experience won't be explicitly focused on Stoicism, but Lobodzinski said that even then, it forms the "spine" of the app's approach.
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Like my colleague Bryan Bishop wrote, I think the film gets a little stuffed up by Armstrong's stoicism, preventing us from getting too close to him.
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Additionally I will recall the obstacles that your opponents religiously set before you, conspiring to hinder your progress - which you responded to with stoicism and statesmanship.
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Quite the opposite: There is an ocean of pain underneath his prose, and his brainy stoicism is the raft that prevents him from drowning in it.
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Signs of either distress or stoicism may equally lead them to discount a woman patient's pleas (she's just overreacting, or else it can't be that bad).
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Shedding his stoicism, he collapsed onto his son's chest and begged between sobs that Hamzah rise and come with him to IHOP for another restorative meal.
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These women prided themselves on a certain stoicism and grit, implying that unlike elite women, they could not afford to dwell on their experiences years later.
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Of all the virtues, surely stoicism, decency and forgiveness rate near the top — particularly in a culture of facile complaint, indecent vanity and vindictive piling-on.
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NO. 6: OTTO KLEMPERER, NEW PHILHARMONIA (Warner) Klemperer's Bruckner is hit and miss, wayward in symphonies where one might most expect his stoicism to work well.
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Muholi is known for dramatically increasing the contrast in her self-portraiture so as to appear stunningly pitch black, her gorgeous darkness and regal stoicism heightened.
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Such stoicism reflects a realization that East Africa was not really getting more dangerous, said Ed Hobey-Hamsher, senior Africa analyst at global risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.
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"The Course of Love" explicitly argues that romance can only survive, once it has moved from boil to simmer (or less), if buttressed by resignation and stoicism.
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Jessa, especially, aspires to the stoicism of her father, or better yet that of her creations: their wounds sewn up, seams disguised with hair dye and glue.
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The stoicism of World War II veterans, their reluctance to share their war stories, even with those closest to them, has long been something of a cliché.
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Much of London was deserted, as Britons responded with stoicism and greater acceptance than they had shown to previous efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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But tenets of Stoicism — which can be interpreted to argue that the world and its current power structure are correctly set as they are — fit right in.
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It had to do with stoicism, and then hiking nuns (but the wimples didn't work), and looked kind of Grecian and sci-fi at the same time.
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He convened an extraordinary session of the Communist Party's top political body, issuing orders for handling the crisis with the crisp, somber stoicism of a field marshal.
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Across much of the city, Londoners expressed a resolute stoicism, an explicit effort to defy what they saw as an attempt to upend their way of life.
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That kind of stoicism, 'suck it up' kind of attitude…So people don't want to speak up, because they may fear being cast out of the 'family.
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The ancient philosophy of Stoicism – which teaches to be satisfied with what you have and includes practices like self-denial — has become a trend among Silicon Valley elites.
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She didn't smile though, nor whoop nor clap — to be fair, my mother watches any movie with the stoicism of the Pope — but she did make comments throughout.
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In a period in which Anglo-British relations are under renewed strain, Kettering's triumph over Lohan's Hollywood PR machine is an unlikely story of British pluck and stoicism.
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Defeating terrorism depends above all on good intelligence, a degree of stoicism and a refusal to allow it to undermine the principles that open societies are built on.
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What is the infamous Rope-a-Dope stratagem of 1974 but a brilliantly pragmatic stoicism in which the end (winning) justifies the means (irreversible damage to body, brain).
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She is poised as she pushes herself, with a long oar, skillfully through the water; the look on her face exudes deep stoicism as she undergoes her task.
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Driver, Murray and the other townspeople address the menace with sad stoicism, a show of resistance in the face of inevitable apocalypse that is not without its poetry.
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It would be something impressive if Thompson could connect his money counter on MacDonald given the latter's stoicism and will to stick to a gameplan even under duress.
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"The new popularity of Stoicism among the tech crowd is, in my view, strikingly similar to Stoicism's popularity among the powerful elites of ancient Rome," Dr. Palmer said.
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But most seemed to accept the restrictions with the same stoicism that many have shown since the city imposed bans on leaving for all but a select few.
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Since you established an image of stoicism from the very beginning, you're now in a much stronger position for all the future houses your agent will show you.
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It's worth noting that when he's not writing books or selling stoicism, Holiday has a marketing business called Brasscheck, which has advised Google, Tony Robbins, Complex Media and more.
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The Walking Dead ends up giving you a level of extreme stoicism that you need to face something that is absolutely unconquerable, whether it's economic turmoil, or something else.
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Throughout the recent violence, there has been an eerie silence from the woman once known for her stoicism and her selfless pursuit of freedom and democracy for her country.
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"When women progress, society progresses," he remarked late in his career — he died in 2007 — and the suffering and stoicism of women figure in all phases of his work.
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In 2016, Forbes estimated his net worth at around seven hundred million dollars, a sum that would have made even Marcus Aurelius ditch the Stoicism and buy a yacht.
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"I came to the Stanford GSB with a military and legal background — both of which are arenas where stoicism and rationality are prized over emotional decision making," said Robinson.
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Worse, they will die with the sublime stoicism of a soldier who knows that ten thousand of his compatriots are lined up behind him, ready to take his place.
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" The group called itself the Senecans, inspired by the stoicism of the Roman statesman and tutor to the Emperor Nero, thus equating Thatcher with that "most volatile of emperors.
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The piece is steeped in stoicism, the preconception that Natives are meant to be seen but not spoken to, purely mythical figures who exist only onscreen, opposite John Wayne.
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Actually his wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity.
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But why must American citizens be drilled in reacting with military stoicism to having guns pointed in their faces — especially African-Americans, who bear the brunt of unwarranted police violence?
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It also connects English soccer to wartime virtues of stoicism and honor, a reputation that would be tarnished when the sport was overtaken by hooliganism in the 1999s and 1980s.
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Her performance, introduced by Vice President Joseph Biden, concluded with her being joined onstage by a crowd of rape victims standing hand-to-hand with Lady G in defiant stoicism.
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Carol is also clearly shaken by her own actions, and when Daryl asks if she's alright she doesn't even bother trying to put on her usual mask of detached stoicism.
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As rumors and innuendoes swirled around her this year, on topics ranging from her husband's alleged infidelities to her mysterious medical procedure, Trump stayed quiet, doubling-down on her stoicism.
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In his book Conspiracy, Ryan Holiday, the media critic for The New York Observer and the author of books on marketing and stoicism, presents an inside account of Hogan v.
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THE BIG IDEAs We are a long way from the Stoicism of Seneca, but grief and how we deal with it is still a vital part of the human experience.
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Reporters at the White House, with a handful of exceptions, have responded to Mr. Trump's attacks with stoicism, even as some on the left have said they should punch back.
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This is McQueen at his very best: a fiercely interrogatory journey down and down into hell's mouth itself in pursuit of stark evidence of human pain, human labor, human stoicism.
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During a question-and-answer session, one audience member faulted Mr. Holiday for holding up flawed historical figures like John D. Rockefeller, a rapacious capitalist, as a model of Stoicism.
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The movie argues that the military stifles such breakthroughs on two fronts: first with a culture that encourages stoicism, second with a failure to provide prompt medical care for veterans.
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" The premise underlying the guidelines is summarized in a descriptive essay on the A.P.A.'s website: "Traditional masculinity — marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression — is, on the whole, harmful.
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Brick Body Kids begins in earnest on "no selling (uncle butch pretends it don't hurt)," which is more or less the comic counterpoint to "legendary iron hood"'s learned stoicism.
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When a song her ex used to favor inadvertently shows up on a playlist, her stoicism gives way to physical convulsions and hyperventilation as she tries, desperately, to hold it together.
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In a blog post, he writes how many Silicon Valley leaders and NFL managers, coaches and players promote the benefits of Stoicism because its practices help them to be better competitors.
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JON PARELES Sepulchral is the word for the talk-sung stoicism of Leonard Cohen on "You Want It Darker," the title track of his October album, which he released on Sept.
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It's been a wild ride so far — and those that have endured the ups and downs, the recession fears, and the trade and geopolitical tensions have been rewarded for their stoicism.
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You might spot a resemblance to Alain Delon, and Thérèse, quietly tormented in spite of her outward stoicism, foreshadows some of the characters Mr. Delon would play in Melville's major films.
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Twelve-year-old Zain witnesses and undergoes horrors that don't seem exaggerated, but Zain al Rafeea, the young actor who plays him, endures the worst with Keatonesque stoicism and Chaplinesque empathy.
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There is instead the filter, the well-meaning deception, that teaches neither religious hope nor stoicism, and when suffering arrives encourages group hysteria, private shame and a growing contagion of despair.
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Gus (Robert Duvall) and Call (Tommy Lee Jones), the aging ex-Rangers saddling up for one last adventure, represent the twin poles of classic Texanhood — swaggering self-regard and gritty stoicism.
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As I sobbed, I looked at Sylvester's album covers: this glamorous, androgynous black man with dark skin beaming with joy on some covers and on others he possessed an eloquent stoicism.
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You've been a model of stoicism, all the while reminding other women that their assault experiences are theirs to process as they wish (with noise, with silence, with rage — it's all OK).
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Seen from afar and combined with stereotypes about British deference and stoicism among Europeans who spend too long watching "Downton Abbey", Westminster's wood-panelled frippery looks like a guarantor of establishment views.
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Judge Judy is known for her take-no-prisoners courtroom demeanor and her tough-but-fair rulings — but even the famous television personality let her stoicism slip in this emotional courtroom moment.
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"I had been offline for seventy-two hours and can remember feeling that this should be counted among the great examples of personal stoicism and moral endurance of our times," she comments.
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These are the details everyone knows and the ones Lorena recites with the stoicism of the waiter at the Tortino Mare Italian restaurant who hours earlier had relayed the specials for us.
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That twisted rope of grief, depression, and humor is wrapped around Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan's masterful portrait of deep tragedy and emotion among men in a community that prizes stoicism.
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It's debatable whether Finns actually invented the sauna, as some claim, but it is an essential part of their national identity, right up there with stoicism and avoiding eye contact with strangers.
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Larsen's dry, matter-of-fact humor is detectable everywhere in her paintings, along an eye for the absurd, not to mention panic, stoicism, boredom, anger, annoyance, and pettiness — often in the same composition.
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Then, too, across the life-cycle the models may need to shift — romanticism tempered by stoicism for the young, the reverse for fathers of young children, and some gentlemanly combination in old age.
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Coach Todd Bowles did not expect the success to go quickly to Darnold's head, after his poise and stoicism were lauded after he threw an interception on his first play in Week 21.
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In Mr. Hernández's grave performance, the emotionally reserved Mostro refuses to engage in the theatrics Jeison wants to invoke, retaining a rocklike stillness and stoicism despite the storms threatening to break around him.
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As Massimo Pigliucci explained in "How to Be a Stoic," Stoicism is very much a practical philosophy of life that promotes social engagement and a genuine concern for others, not resignation and passivity.
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"If this was 50 years ago, what side of the line would you be on?" another demanded of young African American federal officer, whose mask of stoicism slipped ever so briefly at the barb.
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According to Steven Jaffe, co-chair of a lobby group called the Northern Ireland Friends of Israel, Ulster Unionists admire Israeli military prowess and what they regard as stoicism in the face of terrorism.
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And "Kino," by far the strongest, is the story of a man who worries that his stoicism has made him vulnerable to malign magical snakes who want to make a home in his heart.
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It is related to Stoicism—a too-neglected philosophy nowadays—and it's related, emotionally more than logically, to the idea of water under the bridge, which reminds us that the past cannot be rectified.
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"You've been a model of stoicism, all the while reminding other women that their assault experiences are theirs to process as they wish (with noise, with silence, with rage — it's all OK)," Dunham wrote.
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On Friday morning, many commuters braved long and complicated commutes into New York and other areas, facing a confusing slate of schedule changes, delays and cancellations with a mixture of weariness, frustration and stoicism.
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Her stoicism in the face of cancer had led hospital workers to call her "the fakir," an Arabic word for monk or ascetic — one who is self-sufficient and in need only of God.
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Today, Ben is inviting Reddit users to suggest ice cream toppings and then, with comic stoicism, Eric opens up a pint, piles on whatever monstrous combo the internet has cooked up, and chows down.
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"Mifune: The Last Samurai" is a celebration of the originality and influence of the Japanese star Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997), shown as a rare actor capable of the subtlest stoicism and the wildest bravado.
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Through his popular books, lectures and viral articles, he translates Stoicism, which had counted emperors and statesmen among its adherents during antiquity, into pithy catchphrases and digestible anecdotes for ambitious, 2500st-century life hackers.
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Another positive stress influencer is Ryan Holiday, who wrote several books in an attempt to revive a 2,000-year-old set of ideas called stoicism, which advocates self-control and a lack of indulgence.
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And second, to T's extraordinary staff, in particular to photography director Nadia Vellam and staff editor M.H. Miller, who responded to a number of 11th-hour crises with their characteristic stoicism, ingenuity and resourcefulness.
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Mr. de Leeuw resumed his deadpan manner — appropriate, too, to Socrates's stoicism — until the end, when, following Ms. Hannigan's description of the philosopher's death, he gave added emphasis to his last notes to shattering effect.
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He is armed with wry humor and iron-jawed stoicism, but the battler — the archetypal Australian male — is uniquely ill equipped to serve as a role model for a millennium that demands compassion and humanity.
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The Finns, who so pride themselves on their stoicism that they have a word for their national grit (sisu), have been named the happiest people in the world for the third year in a row.
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The Finns, who so pride themselves on their stoicism that they have a word for their national grit (sisu), have been named the happiest people in the world for the third year in a row.
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Brought to England by Queen Victoria, the prince sits in front of a shield and cradles an obscure object (other shots reveal it to be a white doll), with a melancholy air of noble stoicism.
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A certain kind of commentator would have you believe this is already the case, and that only an athlete who has subscribed to stoicism in his deepest heart has what it takes to be successful.
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In her book "When Boys Become Boys" she maintains that by the time the boys reached first grade, sometimes earlier, they traded their innate empathy for a learned stoicism and greater emotional distance from friends.
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Speaking on state television, President Cyril Ramaphosa praised her as a "tireless advocate for the dispossessed and the marginalized", saying she "bore the brunt of the senseless brutality of the apartheid state with stoicism and fortitude".
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Kennedy's stoicism is certainly commendable, but the electorate deserves to know when their President is so incapacitated by pain that he can barely function—and to the point where he's forced to seek out illicit narcotics.
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Kelly's defenders assert he has handled a near-impossible job with stoicism, seeking to manage the mercurial moods of the president as well as the vicious rivalries that rumble on among his aides and broader circle.
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Some of his biggest boosters — including the best-selling authors James Altucher, Marc Ecko, Tim Ferriss and Robert Greene, who are all enthusiastic boosters for his books on Stoicism — are also his clients at Brass Check.
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I even, for a blink, was able to channel Krispis' stoicism: But when I think of my favorite multiplayer moments of all time, it's this game, this first walk through the fog, that will stand out forever.
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It is important for the book's readers to be aware that Holiday, the college dropout, is also a huge believer in Stoicism, an ancient Greek and Roman philosophy that preaches suffering, humility, acceptance and endurance without complaint.
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"Some of them looked at Ryan as a keynote speaker and said, 'Wait a minute, that's not Stoicism,'" said Massimo Pigliucci, a philosophy professor at the City College of New York, who organized Stoicon's New York meeting.
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We find ourselves in the cinder-block-walled refectory of a faith-based rehab center for the penurious, ruled over by the clipboard-wielding Rosemary, who wears a lifetime of hard use with stoicism but without camouflage.
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I see how easily a call to overthrow Liking and Disliking could shade into Stoicism and to the claim that you should feel the same about a slap in the face and a kiss on the cheek.
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Mr. Sorkin has written some sharp characters and cast them accordingly, tapping actors like Mr. Strong, Chris O'Dowd and a terrific Bill Camp, the protagonist in an affecting mini-tragedy in three acts (stoicism, disintegration and heartbreak).
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Notably, the video finds Emin singing the first line of the song into a cup of coffee, and then in an act of typical Russian stoicism, spilling the presumably hot coffee on himself while continuing to sing.
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Ryan Holiday made his bones as a PR guy and then revolted against the industry in his tell-all book Trust Me, I'm Lying and then, after much soul-searching, came to embrace the ancient philosophy of stoicism.
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" There actually isn't much room for men in Rosie's life, except for maybe the stolid German poet Dietmar (McKellar), who displays so much Germanic stoicism that even when he weeps, he says, "I'm not crying, I have angst.
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"He is eloquent in his praise of common soldiers, of their dignity, stoicism and dedication to the preservation of the Union," said Kenneth M. Price, co-editor of the Walt Whitman Archive at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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The stoicism that might have prevented a man like Armstrong, who was facing either death or a kind of immortality, from being able to articulate an answer in that moment is the heart and soul of First Man.
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The tricky thing about a film like Ad Astra is that it's easy to defend its flaws as intentional storytelling choices, to argue its emotional blankness is designed to reflect its thematic interest in stoicism, abandonment, and alienation.
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Ryan's stoicism Americans accustomed to now-retired Speaker John Boehner's easy shows of emotion -- with tears flowing on many occasions -- might have been surprised to see the stone-cold expression on new Speaker Paul Ryan's face throughout Obama's speech.
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You might not quite be rid of your infantile inclinations yet, but you at least have to start not broadcasting them to your friends and colleagues, because stoicism and discretion are qualities you really should have developed by now.
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Mother and son have reënacted it every five years since 2000, and the four versions, which reveal subtle and not so subtle variations in age, stoicism, and saliva formation, were featured in his show at the Palais de Tokyo.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the image of stoicism as President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, railing against everything from Congress' responsibility to keep the executive branch in check to women's right to choose an abortion.
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On Saturday, it mattered some that the smaller one was a woman and more that the woman was Jenna Riegel, whose gusto, playing off Mr. Jackson's stoicism, made "Shared Distance" the most alive selection among these works from the past.
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" Seemingly alluding to the family's famous stoicism following the many tragedies they have endured, he said, "We prize bravery here, but all of a sudden, bravery has become facing our pain, the most brave thing any of us can do.
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" And while Edgerton acknowledges there is "dignity" in the couple's stoicism, he believes "the greatest tragedy in this story is the couple's inability to have any avenues at first to escape this situation, and so they were robbed of time.
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And Taylor knows that it's all too easy to look but never truly see the "Haitan working (washing my window) not begging" (2015), whom he paints in rough but affecting profile, capturing so much: pride, intensity, stoicism, and simple beauty.
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And it encapsulated how Semenya, a gay black woman from a South African township, has dealt with a decade of almost unimaginable adversity: with the kind of poise and stoicism few of us are able or ever compelled to muster.
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Scott makes you almost sympathize with the idea of taking out all of that pain and frustration on your fellow man, and when Christmas morning comes and he's ready to begin anew, he sells that with the same quiet stoicism.
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But while the radical right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany grew stronger, even outflanking Ms. Merkel's party in her home state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, the chancellor's erstwhile best quality — stoicism — has flipped into its unhealthy cousin: leadership fatigue.
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Finkel's article helpfully details some of the techniques that, along with an iron nerve and a preference for social Stoicism, helped Breitwieser to relieve some 200+ separate hosts of their possessions — targets included art fairs, museums, churches, and antique vendors.
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Its latest endeavor: 100 pictures for what would have been the 100th birthday of Jackie Robinson, the first black player in Major League Baseball, who endured racial venom with stoicism and proved a genius on the basepaths in Brooklyn Dodger white.
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It frightened her that this man, who was in excellent health, competed in triathlons and whose stoicism was a family joke, felt bad enough to call her from France to tell her how the very smell of food nauseated him.
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But that veneer of stoicism (one of Roy's character traits is that his BP never goes above 80) crumbles when he comes face to face with Clifford, the last man alive on Project Lima, parked on the outskirts of Neptune's ring.
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All this centers on the face of Woodard, a mask of stoicism that, over the course of almost two hours in which not terribly much happens, finally betrays Bernadine, revealing what is really going on behind her seemingly dead eyes.
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Yet it seemed to resonate with the quiet, reflective crowd at Stoicon, an annual conference for academics and practitioners of Stoicism, the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy that counsels self-effacement and detachment from the vicissitudes of success and failure.
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In light of these events, it's hard not to think of the two maidens in the same way that the Florentines looked at Michelangelo's "David"(1501-04), made a quarter-century earlier: an embodiment of the city's stoicism against overwhelming odds.
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In her new book, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World, out March 27, Palmieri describes how Clinton and her team survived one of the most vicious elections in American history with grit and stoicism.
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"He earned the well-deserved admiration of everyone for his stoicism and his capacity to confront the situation" In mid-January, skin from a new donor became available from a 22-year-old man in western France who had been declared brain-dead.
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Emboldened by the left's new adoption of him as a victim/messiah, he has shed any pretense of professional stoicism and seemingly cares little that self-indulgently discussing his interactions with the president now, before the probe concludes, may deleteriously alter the outcome.
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She brings her mother's stoicism and cheer to Deirdre, also contributing one of her mother's recipes to the play's Thanksgiving table, a salad concoction called Orange Easy and Delicious, which relies on Cool Whip, cottage cheese, mandarin oranges and Jell-O powder.
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Justin Harris and Luke Solomon's Freaks project has been equally inscrutable at times, although the duo has always served up their left-field house offerings with enough of a smirk to let us know where they stood, compared to Ricardo's proudly stoned stoicism.
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People could learn a thing or two about the virtues of stoicism from you, but the moon's trek through Capricorn is a time to be more mindful that you're not forbidding yourself from experiencing and expressing the full spectrum of human feelings.
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But the claim that a "traditional masculinity" encompassing "stoicism" and "self-reliance" necessarily makes this problem worse is mostly ahistorical rubbish — not least because in the actual history of the human race "traditional masculinity" as a single coherent category simply does not exist.
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Her Lincoln, for example, suffered from debilitating depression, as we know; but she also reminds us that he developed a mordant wit that reflected a deep stoicism — and goes far in explaining why the weight of his melancholy didn't derail his career.
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At the age of seventeen, he is arrested with a stolen car and five grams of crack; by the time he has been paroled, six years later, the observant, thoughtful, sensitive boy has built a fortress of stoicism around his heartbreak and anger.
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I think a lot of people end up with spirituality hacking, and life-hackers, in particular, turn to Stoicism and elements of Zen Buddhism and mindfulness practice and we see some of the same biases and myopia as in some of the other chapters.
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While the characters like Danny DeVito's Penguin, Tommy Lee Jones' Two Face, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze are undeniably over the top and ridiculous, they never really stray from being serious, villainous caricatures, and Batman responds in kind with an unbreakably dark, heroic stoicism.
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The face of Aparicio, in the leading role, is not placidly resigned but serene in its stoicism, and if she is less a participant than a bystander during the major convulsions of the era, well, few of us can claim to be much more.
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Maybe it's because so many of the songs are in minor modes; maybe it's because his lyrics probe psychological states instead of concocting character studies; maybe it's because he keeps his guitar playing upfront; maybe it's because his hardheaded stoicism suits a dire era.
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By relearning how to cry, I've relearned how to feel deeply, without all the embarrassment and false stoicism; when I get a little misty at the end of "Paddington 2," it's because I've allowed myself to be moved, instead of fending off the experience.
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Working in England brings Hoop geographically closer to one of her main sources — British and Celtic traditions, with their modal melodies and cleareyed stoicism — and on this album, she has traded California looseness for an element of measured formality, though strange things still happen.
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Working in England brings Hoop geographically closer to one of her main sources — British and Celtic traditions, with their modal melodies and cleareyed stoicism — and on this album, she has traded California looseness for an element of measured formality, though strange things still happen.
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But far from being expressionless, these faces seem to register complex or even equivocal emotions — hovering between stoicism and disappointment, say ("Pale Blue Portrait Bust with Dark Drips," 2018), or between incomprehension and muted chagrin ("Portrait Bust with Amber Shirt and Lavender Hair," 2016).
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His first book, Trust Me I'm Lying focused on his career doing publicity and marketing for American Apparel and Tucker Max, while more recent titles like Ego Is The Enemy and The Daily Stoic examine how to apply the philosophy of stoicism to modern life and business.
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Her stoicism and ability to deflect and pivot to canned responses might be infuriating to American viewers who are critical of her father's administration, but there, they're seen as a sign of grace under fire — no matter what she's saying (or not saying) in her response.
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It is in Marías's portrayal of two completely different ways of being in the world — Eduardo's vengeful and intellectual stance, as compared with Beatriz's self-abnegating stoicism — that we see what a novelist can do best: relish opposing viewpoints and play them off against each other.
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But even adding in two different instances of maternal loss—the mother whose child is killed by Richard Horne's car, and our new information about why Frank Truman's wife is such a harridan—both these scenes could just be coincidental occurrences of female stoicism and sacrifice.
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No. Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn't I want that?
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"There was some skepticism about the personal trajectory of the author, since some of the things in his first book don't seem to be aligned with the ideals of Stoicism," said Gabriele Galluzzo, a professor of ancient philosophy at the University of Exeter in Britain, who attended Stoicon.
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He deflected questions about Mr. Trump with a calm stoicism, but he grew angry and emotional when Democrats pressed him on a more personal matter: accusations of racial insensitivity toward his employees and others as a federal prosecutor, which doomed his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986.
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The strength, stoicism, patience, determination, and technical skill has been unreal, and by letting him do work down low instead of placing him on the outside as a full-time spacer, the Memphis Grizzlies deserve credit for believing what their eyes (and early statistical returns) have told them.
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But I went into Homecoming feeling a little unsure of how that hero, as winsome as he was, would carry an entire movie; since a lot of his character's appeal in Civil War was that he was able to play off of the stoicism and sternness of the superheroes around him.
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Indeed, certain swaths of the American public appeared to react to the horrific events in San Bernardino and later Orlando less in post-9/11 fashion and more in line with the type of grim stoicism reminiscent of British and Israeli societies that have suffered longer series of terrorist attacks.
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If you have found fame by portraying the Queen of England, as Foy has done in two seasons of " The Crown ," there are few more effective ways of changing your tune than by playing a young American woman with a dirty modern mouth and a mind unschooled in regal stoicism.
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Within MMA, a culture that, outside of a few anti-heroes and Ric Flair impersonators, still demands superhuman conduct, unceasing humility, and steely stoicism from its participants, her intermittent sportsmanship, unbridled ego and mouth, and hair-trigger emotions—especially those seemingly omnipresent tears—were unforgivable transgressions unbefitting of a champion.
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They included a prisoner in Chicago, cigarette in one hand, the other anxiously grasping the jail cell bars, belying his stoicism; police frisking a suspect, his "hands high and trembling in the eerie light;" and young men playing poker on a New York sidewalk, minutes before police break up their game.
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Still, when I mention what I call the "men's health crisis" in public talks, people always call out the same cultural and behavioral explanations: male stoicism, higher rates of smoking, stress from protecting and providing for their families, resistance to seeking care and following medical recommendations, risk-taking that results in trauma.
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"It was quite a mess, but you just had to keep going," Ken Peppercorn, now 21944, told The Observer newspaper in London, reflecting the stoicism of his generation in his account of wading ashore under fire and scrambling to find a smidgen of cover in a crater hewed from the dunes by shellfire.
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You know, at the end of it, I really thought, if you compare Anita Hill with her dignity, her stoicism, her integrity when she appeared and tried to do her civic duty to provide testimony, with Dr. Ford, who was trying really hard to explain herself and to not go too far.
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We had a couple of roller-related hospital trips, one on Skate World's floors: My mother fell while sailing across its floors and broke her arm shortly after I was born, a testament to the bizarre stoicism of her desire to chase her trip to the maternity ward with a few laps.
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" The A.P.A. guidelines argue that the socialization of males to adhere to components of "traditional masculinity such as emotional stoicism, homophobia, not showing vulnerability, self-reliance and competitiveness" leads to the disproportion of males involved in "aggression and violence as a means to resolve interpersonal conflict" as well as "substance abuse, incarceration, and early mortality.
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The lifestyle is often painted as a mixture of stoicism and financial savvy; I envisage myself as a modern-day Henry David Thoreau-type, living deliberately in the wilds of Zone 230, frugally saving half my paycheck and subsisting off of beans and pita bread until I've amassed a small fortune that will see me into early retirement.
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A study in stoicism If the country wondered what Melania Trump was feeling after the news broke her husband had allegedly been unfaithful with adult film star Stormy Daniels, a claim he has repeatedly denied -- just months after she had given birth to the couple's only child -- they needed only to read her silence and her independence.
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Perhaps this is the reason why there is such a prevalence of depression and anxiety, why the male stereotype has sustained emotional stoicism, why there is an abundance of people who feel lost, out of touch with themselves, and at worst, maybe it's part of the reason why there are so many cases of unexplained suicide.
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By Brown's reckoning, writing "Happy" helped him move through his own life with more equanimity, and many of the tenets of Stoicism—that we are disturbed not by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, that we should let go of the things we can't control—have found their way into his performances.
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"What I like about this book is when I'm struggling, it's easy to pick it up and read a few pages to get a different perspective, and to see the hidden opportunity," Reining says of Holiday's book, which shows how some of the most successful people have applied the ancient Greek philosophy of stoicism to turn difficult situations into opportunities.
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Though Mr Ali provoked much fury in his youth by refusing to serve in Vietnam and by converting to Islam, ditching his "slave name" of Cassius Clay along the way, he died a national treasure, his explosive reputation made safe by time, suffering and stoicism—and above all his long fight with Parkinson's disease and the damage caused by years in the ring.
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Few contemporary coming-of-age stories compare to the one that unfolds around Xiomara Batiste, the defiant, emerging writer at the center of Elizabeth Acevedo's best-selling, National Book Award-winning debut, "The Poet X," a novel in verse about a rebellious girl we root for as she carves a path away from her family's religious stoicism and toward her own artistic future.
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The farmers of Inviolata, exploited and oppressed by an ancient social order even as they are sustained by equally durable traditions of stoicism and solidarity, show an evident kinship with the fisherman in Luchino Visconti's "La Terra Trema," the agricultural laborers in Giuseppe De Santis's "Bitter Rice" and the landless peasants of Ermanno Olmi's "The Tree of Wooden Clogs," among many others.
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Such stoic philosophical reflections hit me as somewhat ironic within the collection of the maestro of trendy luxury, as stoicism is predominantly a philosophy that teaches that the path to happiness is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself to us (be here now), and by not allowing ourselves to be controlled by our desires for luxurious pleasures.
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In three decades of research, Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology at New York University, has observed a striking pattern of behavior among American boys: in early adolescence, they are openly affectionate with one another, speaking freely of love and lifelong bonds; by late adolescence, as they become cultured to project an image of masculinity, heterosexuality and stoicism, they start to distance themselves from their same-sex friends.
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Many seem to feel this way despite themselves: voters who have despised her Conservative Party all their lives, including, privately, a number of opposition Labour members of Parliament, admit to a grudging admiration for her calmness and stoicism in the face of extreme provocation — or if not that far, then at least empathy for the raw humiliation she's endured over the past two years combined with, on occasion, appreciation of her willingness to take responsibility while others fled.
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Algren led a big life that included such diverse experiences as immersion, while a student at the University of Illinois, in the Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius; conviction for stealing a typewriter, which elicited the mercy of probation from a small-town Texas jury sympathetic to the argument that the defendant was like a carpenter who could not afford his tools; interaction with the Communist Party as a member of the "proletarian" school of American writers; F.B.I. surveillance personally authorized by J. Edgar Hoover; three marriages (two to the same woman); and a trans-Atlantic romance with Simone de Beauvoir.
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Then there are other things about me that constricted by ability to cry: That I'm much more of a thinker than a feeler; that I'm quick to verbalize my feelings rather to sit with them; that I'm an anxious person who is often in a state hypervigilance in which I'm less likely to relax enough to cry; that I'm a journalist and thus part of a professional culture that places a high value on composure and stoicism; and that, like, a lot of guys, after years of painful personal and professional experiences, I had built a cinder block wall between me and my emotions that I've only recently started to disassemble.
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