Sentences with phrase «stoic men»

One last thread found throughout Fire Emblem is that many of the lead characters are stoic men that favor the color blue.

There's a Howard Hawks - ian brio to director Joseph Kosinski's Only The Brave, a relaxed, no - muss - no - fuss camaraderie of stoic men doing their jobs that in its best moments reminded me of Red River or Only Angels Have Wings.

Watching these stoic men and women care for their dogs — despite their own obvious fatigue — then push off on the final 22 - mile stretch run to the finish in Nome, proved to me that this race is the ultimate iron - will event.

This film is a little grittier than the Taken series but comparable to that in content, giving Neeson another opportunity to be a stoic man of action.

Liam Cunningham plays a stoic man who drinks a lot one night in a pub to forget the demons that haunt him.

And then there was Moonlight, Jenkins's sophomore feature about a lonely boy, who becomes a troubled teen, who becomes a stoic man.

The first movie had Keanu Reeves's stoic man of action taking on the Russian mobsters who killed his dog — a vengeance with a vicious edge.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

«Uncle Will» has a fully developed teaching on the place of man in the cosmos, the indispensability of the Stoic virtues of magnanimity and generosity, and loneliness, class, understanding, beauty, and love.

In its ideological foundations political democracy is derived both from the Stoic conception of a natural law of human equality and the Christian idea of the worth and dignity of all men in the sight of God.

The Stoic said: «The only genuine good that life can yield a man is the free possession of his own soul; all other goods are lies.»

Bonhoeffer speaks of different types: Aristotelian (man becomes a person by partaking of reason); Stoic («a man becomes a person by submitting to a higher obligation»); 4 Epicurean (man's life is heightened by pleasure, though it has a «defective concept of spirit»); 5 and the idealist tradition flowing from Immanuel Kant (the perceiving person is the starting point for philosophy).

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).

Not seeking power, but hoping to persuade nonetheless, all of these men came to exemplify a southern stoic self - reliance immune to the blandishments of the pop celebrity that was given great writers in the 1950s and 1960s.

He thus illustrates how these thinkers influenced Percy's exploration of man's inner confusion about his place in the universe: how the Stoic virtue of honorable endurance proper to Percy's Southern upbringing blossomed into the perception of divine intent revealed through the beauty of created things.

Tom Wolfe in A Man in Full shows how it can occur after reading the Stoic Epictetus in a maximum security prison.

This school has continued even to our day, and although we understand that it was filled with men of great learning and zeal for divinity, it is recorded that the said person was especially distinguished at that time, in as much as he had come from that sect of philosophers who are called Stoics.

It found its highest expression in the Stoic philosophy, which, for all its efforts to call men to the service of humanity, had for its aim the «self - sufficiency» of the individual (his «autarky», as the newspapers now say, adopting a word from the vocabulary of Stoicism, but usually misspelling it).

If God, as in the Stoic conception, is «beyond fear and desire,» then «the wise man who courageously conquers desire, suffering, and anxiety «surpasses God himself»» (CTB 16).

Stoics and Neo-Platonists alike had their doctrine of the Logos — the creative effluence of the transcendent God, forever going forth into his world and, above all, lighting «every man.»

The Stoics used the new knowledge to exhort men to integrate their lives to the rhythm of the cosmos, for they said man was a constituent part of this vast organism.

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

Clegg loyalists pin their hopes on the belief that their man will, over the next 11 months, earn belated recognition from the voters for his stoic resilience.

Silver, 71, one of Albany's proverbial «three men in a room» who ruled the Assembly with seldom - questioned authority for 20 years, was stoic as the jury forewoman read seven consecutive verdicts of guilty on extortion, bribery and money - laundering charges on just the third day of deliberations.

He listens with the stoic patience of a man who has faced many disbelievers.

As a young man, I learned to suppress my feelings, to be a tough guy, a stoic, a soldier.

They are the stoic, the man's man, the salt of the earth.

It also helps men to learn in small group discussions how to deal with the cultural expectations to be brave, strong, stoic and invincible.

14 % said once a week, another 14 % said once a month, 50 stoic individuals (6 %) said «I do not cry», and 2 % (15 men) said they cry every day.

Women fall in love with Scottish single men who are magnetic and stoic.

Seemingly incapable of cracking a smile, he fits securely in the stoic - farmer tradition that stretches from John Wayne in «The Quiet Man» to Russell Crowe in «The Water Diviner.»

If the goal of the Darwin's great - great - grandson, Randal Keynes, the author of Annie's Box, along with the writers and director of «Creation» was to humanize Darwin and bury the iconic image of the stoic bearded man who walked with a cane and was slightly hunched over in his later years, then they brilliantly accomplished what they set out to do.

He's happy to let Waltz and DiCaprio chew the scenery, comfortable with playing the stoic straight man (albeit with a few amusing quips here and there).

Although Whitaker does an amazing job playing the stoic servant, Cecil is a man trained to have no opinion, to not speak unless spoken to and to spend his time anticipating the needs of white folk, many of whom neglect to see their own part in racial discrimination.

Clint Eastwood's ode to the heroic pilot is an old - fashioned sort of film, an account of a stoic, strong - silent - type man forced to account for his own heroism by a bunch of pencil - necks.

With West, Leone made certain that surface similarities existed between the film's characters and those found in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Charles Bronson's stoic harmonica - playing loner can be equated with Eastwood's «Good» Man With No Name; Henry Fonda's vicious Frank is Lee Van Cleef's «Bad» Sentenza; and Jason Robards's wily bandit Cheyenne is Eli Wallach's «Ugly» Tuco.

Drive follows a man with no name (Ryan Gosling) who is the perfect picture of the existential hero: a quiet stoic with no known past or attachments, defined only by his actions and the code by which he lives.

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.

After way too many films featuring a bland, stoic Clive Owen (Sin City, Inside Man) he finally gets a role with depth in Children of Men.

They are all led by Brad Pitt who brings a stoic exterior to Wardaddy when it comes to the fact that these men are killing machines.

It's about weary old soldiers becoming tired of killing and being inspired by the stoic suffering of their prisoners to become better men themselves.

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.

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.

Also in the mix are the Sheriff's proud stallion Buck (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who's itching to be heroic, the stoic bounty hunter Rico (Charles Dennis), peg - legged rabbit Lucky Jack (Charles Haid), and nasty little man Wesley (clearly modeled after his voice, Steve Buscemi).

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.

He's actually quite a stoic, quiet man who on the surface is calm.

Marsh is a stoic leader and one who has earned the respect of his men.

But Affleck's stoic Neil can be seen as an echo of Brad Pitt's»50s father from Malick's «The Tree of Life»: a strong, quiet man whose deep feelings are smothered by a masculine inability to express them.