Sentences with phrase «more stoic»

I'm more stoic than I thought» and «Christian squirts baby oil into his hand and then rubs my behind with careful tenderness — from makeup remover to soothing balm for a spanked ass, who would have thought it was such a versatile liquid.»

On the cover of the catalogue for her recent retrospective, titled Revelations, you see her face, a hazy and grainy dark - eyed phantom, lurking behind two of her more stoic photographs.

Almost completely off the map of Bushwick Open Studios and any other artistic district of Brooklyn, the event was held in a semi-abandoned venue that required the commitment of construction more stoic than epicurean, in a block - ghetto totally disconnected from other contests of its nature.

Seems like FemShep is more expressive, while BroShep's more stoic.

Sporting a head full of dreadlocks and a brooding wildman disposition that makes him seem a more stoic version of Blanka, Nicalli uses his own crazed form of martial arts, which includes a ground explosion that the player can aim.

Cats are much more stoic than we are.

Cats of both sexes typically are more stoic than dogs when it comes to pain.

Here are 10 calm dog breeds that will very likely be compatible to the more stoic owner.

This is usually what I do, but I may be a broken human being (as in, more Stoic philosopher or Zen outcast... I'm not well socialized).

With only 2.5 turns lock - to - lock, it is now 10 percent quicker yet at the same time a touch more stoic around the straight - ahead position.

Age is a big benefit too, as his acting style has become more stoic as he gets more wrinkles on his forehead and weariness in his eyes, but it makes his calibrated expressions all the more immediate.

As Aguilar, he's a lot more stoic and subtle.

Sadly, Assassin's Creed III also charged in with a fair amount of bugs and glitches and Connor's more stoic, pensive demeanor combined with Ubisoft's habit of «Forrest Gumping» him into virtually every major event of the war didn't gel well with fans who had gotten used to Ezio's charm and swagger.

At one point Vikander can display a charismatic, adventurous, rebellious spirit and in another point she could display fear and vulnerability that sets her apart from the more stoic, campy iteration brought to life by Angelina Jolie in 2001's «Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.»

The restraint in his performance marks something of a diversion for Rudd, taking on a more dramatic persona here (though he's not completely sullen — just think more stoic, as in Perks of Being a Wallflower and dial the infectious inanity of Anchorman down to 1).

There are serious miscalculations throughout The Lone Ranger, starting with the casting: Hammer plays the masked hero with the dim enthusiasm (or enthusiastic dimness) of Brendan Fraser at his most stilted; Depp's Tonto is an ethnically dubious repurposing of his popular Jack Sparrow character, more stoic but equally eccentric; and Helena Bonham Carter, as a brothel madam with a lethal fake leg, does little but add to the cartoon grotesquerie.

When people work out, they learn to be more comfortable being uncomfortable, and this familiarity with suffering allows them to be more stoic when faced with challenging situations outside the gym.

Mothering, rather than making me more stoic, has actually deepened what I feel, and perhaps even made grief more powerful.

Birzer makes a case for Kirk's orthodoxy, but acknowledges that his outlook was more Stoic than Christian, especially in his most intellectually productive period.

Oddly enough, that axiom — which earlier and more Stoic philosophers reckoned absurd and dangerous — encapsulates exactly that dream of another, better and more malleable world which is otherwise called Fairyland.

From a more stoic and historical perception this is also flawed to a marketing technique at best.

With a winning performance from Jonathan Banks, Mike became one of the most interesting and beloved characters in the series, with a hardened presence that makes him more stoic and intimidating than nearly anyone else in the show.

Not exact matches

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.

And certainly, without access to resources of patience and compassion beyond one's normal human endowment, most of us would have to face life with no more than a stoic despair.

A more subtle form is the stoic determination to grit one's teeth and take what comes, asking no odds of God or man.

Stoic morality, Plato's language of the Good, Aristotle's metaphysics of act and potency — all became richer and more coherent when emancipated from the morbid myths of sacrificial economy and tragic necessity.

In this view, stoics from Seneca to Van Dusen deny life that more profound depth which may be afforded by continued experience — even suffering experience.

An ethical repudiation of slavery only began with the rise of Greco - Roman Stoic philosophy, which contributed a lot more to the founding ideals of this country than most Christians are aware of.

If we compare stoic with Christian ejaculations we see much more than a difference of doctrine; rather is it a difference of emotional mood that parts them.

In the Stoic philosophy, «providence» means nothing more than the teleological character which can be discerned in the working of natural law.

For Novak, however, nothing could be more disastrous for Judaism than to admit Socrates, Plato, the Stoics, Grotius, and Kant into the operative logic of Jewish jurisprudence, for not only did the ancient advocates of natural law such as Plato and the Stoics lack a doctrine of creation, but even Grotius and Kant» devout monotheists though they were» imported a false philosophy into God's sovereign dealings with the human race:

When Jesus saved me, he didn't make me a person less prone to despair or less intensely overwhelmed by emotions of both joy and sorrow, and he didn't make my very stoic big - picture friend more emotionally affected by suffering.

The Stoic sage Seneca counseled that «the living word and life in common will benefit you more than written discourse,» and his contemporaries indeed tended to think together and to think out loud.

We would then have no more fear; without fear and without hope we would be invulnerable like the Stoics.

Teenagers can be challenging during divorce as they are more likely to be stoic and keep their feelings hidden inside.

Here its cheesed up to the max with Sheen getting out of control and becoming a loose cannon whilst the others must all band together and be even more macho and stoic than ever before.

Oscar - nominated for her intense, stoic performance in Winter's Bone, she shot to fame via The Hunger Games franchise, bagged an iconic role for Marvel in the X-Men universe, won the Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook and scored two more nominations for Joy and American Hustle.

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.

Do we accept the painful stereotypes this movie is built around — Matt LeBlanc's roguish pilot 101 and Hurt's stoic father — or do we subject ourselves to more dreary talking head scenes?

Director Joe Wright recognizes this and thanks to a sharp script by Anthony McCarten, Darkest Hour is more than just a stoic piece of work that has characters occasionally yelling at each other.

The moment causes a rift in his psyche, and a realisation that, perhaps he's more than the stoic flatfoot he's been tasked with playing.

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.

The film lacks the spark of BBC's Sherlock series which has a vibrant Benedict Cumberbatch and stoic Martin Freeman, but it delivers something more profound and meaningful.

In 1899, Javier seems to be less the sly (and slightly manic) gunman we saw in RDR1, and more of a brooding, stoic young man - though that's not his only trait.

And more importantly, it reminds you that it's easy to take a talent like Elliott for granted, until someone hands him the sort of role that lets this stoic pillar of hypermasculinity play the scales.

Likewise, I found Daniela Vega's stoic responses to endless micro-aggressions far more convincing than they might have been if played by an outsider.

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.

Her stoic, icy visage and the moderately inviting visuals of her section at least serve as a sedative to the flat crime saga the film is more interested with.

Where One - eye was stoic and brutal, Kohlhaas is a more restrained protagonist, refusing to place himself above the law.

Stiller takes the stamp of uniqueness away from the movie and undermines his lead character; certainly Walter needs to pay more attention to the world around him, but he completely cuts off what defined him as a person, and he's so stoic about most of it that it doesn't seem to have an impact; he becomes not an everyman, but a movie man.