Sentences with phrase «as stoic»

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Brooklyn Museum - New York By Taliesin Thomas Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) is widely recognized as the stoic «Mother of American modernism,» the unabashed creator of sensual female genitalia - inspired paintings, the lover to her mentor and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, and in her later years, a recluse cloistered in the Southwest.

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) is widely recognized as the stoic «Mother of American modernism,» the unabashed creator of sensual female genitalia - inspired paintings, the lover to her mentor and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, and in her later years, a recluse cloistered in the Southwest.

Fans of Sid Meier's Civilization series who have witnessed the game's recent E3 trailer were no doubt delighted to hear the iconic voice of British actor Sean Bean (who's famous for his portrayal as the stoic Ned Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones TV adaptation) narrating the trailer, and now it has been confirmed that Sean Bean's involvement with the game doesn't end there.

Yet there isn't a hint of pathos, as the stoic Charley ploughs on across a wilderness that forever emphasises his insignificance.

But it's probably fair to say that Ali has flown under the radar for much of his film career, even when quietly impressing as stoic one - man support systems to Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond the Pines, Jennifer Lawrence in the final Hunger Games chapters, and Taraji P Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Dushku continues to slip effortlessly between Echo's various guises; Olivia Williams and Fran Kranz are given a more interesting relationship and they play off each other pretty well, Harry Lennix is as stoic and awesome as ever, and Tahmoh Penikett is given more room to breathe in his new role as a handler at the Dollhouse.

What's interesting about it is that his performance as the stoic Hugh Glass is so vastly different from the ones he's made his name on throughout his career: charismatic, fast - talkers like Jack Dawson in «Titanic,» Frank Abagnale in «Catch Me If You Can» and Jordan Belfort in «The Wolf of Wall Street.»

«Civil War» dares you to not be won over by Holland's youthful comedic charm and Boseman's depth as the stoic prince in the killer suit.

The writing is as stoic as Donovan, who Hanks plays as a regular neighborhood guy just trying to ensure everyone gets a fair shake — but behind the façade is real shrewdness.

Not only do we get the always enjoyably oily Malcolm McDowell as a vaguely Trump - ish autocrat who runs the race; Manu Bennett as a stoic yet dryly funny bad - ass hero; Marci Miller as his plucky sidekick (of sorts); Folake Olowofoyeku as a maniacal rock star who mows down on her owns fans; Anessa Ramsey as an insane evangelist who does the same to her own flock; Burt Grinstead (wonderfully manic) as a genetically enhanced, sexually confused, super-muscular man - child; and veteran character actor Yancy Butler as the furious leader of several ill - fated race protesters.

Soon though, he realises that he seems to be Groundhog Day - ing the big invasion day anytime he dies and only Emily Blunt as the stoic, impossibly - skilled, war - vet Rita, believes him.

Her manner is as stoic and severe as her bangs.

The Story of G.I. Joe William Wellman, USA, 1945, 35 mm, 108m Robert Mitchum's extraordinary, Oscar - nominated performance as the stoic, exhausted, and quietly beleaguered Lieutenant Walker in this adaptation of correspondent Ernie Pyle's dispatches from the war in Europe, made him a star.

Her powerfully - grounding performance is matched in intensity by those of Abigail Breslin as the taken for granted Anna; Sofia Vassilieva as the wasting away Kate; Jason Patric as the stoic family patriarch; Evan Ellingson as the brooding big brother; Alec Baldwin as a vulnerable crusader for the underdog; and Joan Cusack as a judge concerned about the best interest of the plaintiff.

Michael Fassbender as the stoic and tortured Tom, has the actor showcasing another effortless and engaging presence that proves he's got plenty more to offer the realm of cinema.

Skarsgard is magnetic as Benji, but it is Marling who truly shines as the stoic, yet somewhat fragile Sarah.

Adrien Brody takes the lead as a stoic mercenary who quickly surmises that they're all in over their heads.

Jim Caviezel plays Ladouceur as a stoic, noble, righteous soul — because that is all Jim Caviezel is capable of.

So, while taking a much harder edge to the feel - good hug - an - Indian West of «Dances With Wolves,» «Hostiles» ultimately falls back on the same one - dimensional archetypes, depicting Native Americans either as ruthless savages or as stoic sages, with nothing in between.

Edgerton is mesmerising as the stoic husband, whose only instruction to his legal team is to «tell the judge I love my wife».

As the stoic Christian Grey, Jamie Dornan seems a little more life - like this go - round, being directed to loosen up somewhat, but he is still all abs and no substance, as the script has given up on trying to make sense of him or enlighten the viewer on his psychological issues.

As the stoic stranger Silas (Fassbender) describes in voiceover, young Jay is «a jackrabbit in a den of wolves,» willing to pay Silas to serve as chaperone while oblivious to the fact that his new protector falls among those looking to collect the bounty on Rose's head for crimes committed back home.

Society views men as stoic, self - sacrificing, and above all, strong.

As a stoic, he said, he would have caved in long before.

Olga Korbut almost singlehandedly shattered the Western stereotype of the Soviets as stoic, unfeeling automatons.

Hollywood tends to reward — and remember — bombastic performances over more subtle fare, and DiCaprio's frequent casting as the stoic protagonist allows his scenes to be eaten away by his supporting cast.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.8

If, as Stoics like Aunt Emily believe, he has simply been reabsorbed into the circumambient nothingness, why is human life not absurd and worthless?

as a Stoics fantasy of a sacrosanct nullity!

Not exact matches

While some view football as a cutthroat, dog - eat - dog industry, the anecdote shows that even the most stoic of football figures can make moves that benefit both their team and the player they're moving.

That's why Ryan Holiday, the author of The Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic, created the Memento Mori medallion, a coin I now carry with me everywhere that serves as a physical reminder that «You could leave life right now.»

Salah's stoic reactions to his goals might strike some as odd, but it's rooted in tradition.

As she joins the crowd, Jenner grabs a conveniently placed can of ice - cold Pepsi and passes it to a stoic police officer.

As the crowd broke into applause, the boys remained stoic.

No one invites that stoic, toothless version of Jesus out for drinks as much as He seemed to get invited out.

Perhaps it is because the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers wanted to engage God only as a concept, and not as the God - man who lays a claim upon our lives.

he appealed to «nature» as standard in a way a Stoic might have done; (I Corinthians 11:14 - 15) his praise of moderation and his use of «virtue» were in good current form; (Philippians 4:8.)

But truth is as badly stretched when one sees the fundamentally Jewish Paul as a Hellenistic or Stoic philosopher.

It is not the Stoics» doctrine of God itself so much as the ethic of stoicism imposed upon the divine that has been utilized: to be utterly tranquil, unaffected by external exigencies, nonattached, disinterested — in short, apathetic (apatheia).

In The Crucified God (originally, 1972), an intentionally provocative title, Moltmann saw clearly that traditional Christian thought tried to resolve the tension between God's love and God's self - contained immutability by championing the Stoic elevation of apatheia as a way of characterizing a divine love that is no in way affected by the recipient of that love.

It portrays me as the southern Stoic gentleman opposed to the Snopesy (or the money - grubbing populist) governor.

There is little to indicate its date, except that the author seems to blend the Jewish wisdom literature as found in Proverbs with the style of the Cynic and Stoic traveling preachers.

There's a moral precision about him as a man and as a public servant; without being prissy or showy in his moralism, he sets himself to the Stoic task of seeing that the jobs at hand are those that will be done.

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).

The Stoics spoke of certain ways of behavior as being «natural» because they believed these activities were consistent with the nature of things.

For the Stoic, the outward conditions of life — freedom as privilege and as right — were of minor importance compared with the inner liberty won by loyalty to the truth.

They can not even be dissociated enough to analyze them atomistically, as Aristotle attempts to do in his Nicomachean Ethics and the Stoic philosophers were fond of doing.

No one as much as Kant has had a sense for the transcendent character of this connection, and this against the whole of Greek philosophy to which he is directly opposed, rejecting Epicurean and Stoic equally: happiness is not our accomplishment: it is achieved by superaddition, by surplus.