Sentences with phrase «most stoic»

He's also the most stoic 76 - year - old on the planet, so he did the blokey thing when he woke with chest pains and waited until morning.

And job interviews can make the most stoic poker faces turn into sweaty messes.

It's enough to drive even the most stoic gamer into a rage.

Thankfully, even the most stoic of dogs are going to show symptoms of pain, especially if the pain is severe.

Dr. Borns - Weil is very experienced in reading body language and interpreting the behaviors of even her most stoic patients.

Who would have dreamed that Thor, one of their most stoic characters, would star in one of the studio's goofiest films?

The best intensive care nurses never do become inured to the daily tragedies they witness, and helplessness in the face of imminent catastrophe, especially when it involves a patient not much younger than oneself, is unbearable even for the most stoic of professional personnel.

Not to mention that SF is one of the most stoic and measured journalists I've ever seen on the internet, particularly in a topic that invokes a lot of passion.

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.

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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.

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.

By the third century A.D. the practice of paideia treated all the classical philosophical traditions — Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, but most of all Platonic — with religious interests.

The most important place in Susie's heaven is a pretty gazebo where she can watch those she has left behind: her shattered father obsessively attempting to solve her murder, her stoic mother trying to escape a «ruined heart» through «merciful adultery,» her baby brother struggling to understand that the word «dead» means Susie is never coming back.

There is in most of us a spark of reason, and much was achieved for universal human moral standing by the great Stoic philosophers who emphasized this logos in us all.

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.

She is particularly fond of the stoic thinker Chrysippus, whom she thinks to be «the most profound thinker on emotion in the entire philosophical tradition.»

In the Gospel of John we have the most forthright and vivid use of the term, for its author, who was probably a Gentile Christian familiar with the Greek idea of the Logos, (The word Logos which holds a central place in Stoic philosophy, can be translated Word but this does not do justice to its full meaning.

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.

Perhaps the most important borrowing was the Platonic and Stoic doctrine of the human soul.

Whatever Big 8 pride I had came out in droves during the Fiesta Bowl, which saw stoic Tom Osborne defeat cocky Steve Spurrier and saw Tommie Frazier rip off one of the most famous plays in college football history; he ran into a wall of Florida defenders, then ran right through the wall for a 75 - yard touchdown.

Most the time the look on her face is kind of stoic at first when going to an unknown new place, but it's so great to see her open up to new situations and places and eventually be comfortable.

Hillcoat's affection for deadly, stoic anti-heroes looks set to play a major part in Triple 9, which is one of our most anticipated releases of 2016.

There, Luke (Ryan Gosling), a stoic motorcycle stunt rider with tattoos covering most of his torso, takes the long walk from his trailer to the tent where he's about to perform his nightly feats of derring - do.

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.

Quentin Tarantino's most mature film, featuring Robert Forster's lonely, movingly stoic bail bondsman, hinted at a different way forward for the pop - obsessed director — a path he never took.

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.

Cecil Gaines, the stoic hero at the center of Lee Daniels» The Butler, is given this advise on his first day of service at The White House, and even though he most certainly takes it to heart, Gaines is anything but a shrinking violet.

The steering is dead accurate, but the A3 plots a stoic, insensate course through curves, its tires doing most of the work.

The Nix of the book's title derives from the name of a Norwegian spirit, one that makes you hurt the people you love the most; a spirit that suffocates Faye's childhood and, as it turns out, is a relic carried from the old country by her stoic father.

Many dogs and most cats are relatively stoic about pain, and problems such as abscessed teeth and oral tumors can easily be missed.

Keep in mind, many dogs and most cats are relatively stoic.

Japanese Version of Epic Viking RPG also Launches Today BALTIMORE, MD — November 17th, 2016 — Stoic, an independent game development company, and Versus Evil,, one of the leading independent video game publishers, today announced that four new languages have been added to the viking epic Banner Saga 2 in the most recent update.

It is in these moments that the restricted budget of Stoic becomes clear, which is too bad because it is so forgettable most other times.

And this is how Nintendo has elected to break six years of silence for one of its most celebrated series: a co-op shooter with chibi visuals in which Samus Aran, the stoic bounty hunter who's fronted every Metroid to date, is relegated to the sidelines.

With their small but passionate team Stoic Studios has made the most visually appealing game I have ever played.

BALTIMORE, MD — November 17th, 2016 — Stoic, an independent game development company, and Versus Evil,, one of the leading independent video game publishers, today announced that four new languages have been added to the viking epic Banner Saga 2 in the most recent update.

So it comes as no surprise to most people that today Stoic officially unveiled their third Banner Saga game.

The «Versus Evil RPG Experience» will take place at their Booth # 13096 and includes hands - on playable demos of two of the year's most anticipated role - playing games Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire from Obsidian Entertainment, and Banner Saga 3 from Stoic Studio.

The tough girl, the goofy guy, the stoic soldier, the shy one, all are tried and true tropes that are a constant in most video game stories.

It may sound unfair, but it's also more real, and is perhaps Stoic's way of drumming into you the bleakness and hopelessness of trying to lead in the most dire of situations.

In that regard, I accept that she is stoic and has continued to do most things.

The company has been recognized many, many times throughout its long and stoic history, but some of its most recent awards include «100 Best Companies for the Working Mother,» «Best Places To Work: LGBT Community,» «Top 50 Company for Diversity» and more.

This is the time of year that transitions even the most unreceptive and stoic of individuals into those filled with camaraderie and joy.