stoically

How To Use stoically In A Sentence

• But the running, the vitamin drips and disciplined approach to eating are borne stoically. Times, Sunday Times
• She listened stoically as the guilty verdict was read out.
• The suspended assistant police commissioner had stood stoically as the jury forewoman was asked 20 times for a verdict.
• Yet she bore her pain stoically, neither asking nor expecting him to help her through it.
• Still, we endure stoically, because the etiquette books - written, no doubt, by extroverts - regard declining to banter as rude and gaps in conversation as awkward.
• There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied.
• As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death. Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
• This work is dedicated to Penny Vale who, in addition to listening to my theories of development and readings, waded stoically through reams of printed notes and sheets correcting typos and spelling mistakes.
• The present ministerial team at the Ministry of Defence has clung stoically to the traditional line that the negligence verdict was correct.
• There was more entertainment to follow as the Scotland side stoically withstood some brutal tackling to more or less assure themselves of winning their European pool.