STOIC in a Sentence
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Example sentences for STOIC, such as:
1. We knew she must be in pain, despite her stoic attitude.
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Meanings and Examples of STOIC
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stoic
a. indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
Classic Sentence:
1 It was from her that he inherited his detachment from the sumptuary side of life: the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the Epicurean's pleasure in them.
2 The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.
Example Sentence:
1 The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to "burst" with boldness and good-will into "the silent sea" of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.
2 I wasn't particularly stoic when I had my flu shot; I squealed like a stuck pig.
3 We knew she must be in pain, despite her stoic attitude.