Word: stoics
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...second goal, which dribbled over the goal line after Boe had made the initial shoulder save, prompted the usually stoic netminder to swing her goalie stick at the post...
...images of the dragon and phoenix on opposite sides. In another handscroll, from the seventeenth century, “The Twelve Zodiac Animals as Poets,” animals are used to reflect cultural symbols. Animals from the traditional Chinese zodiac are satirically dressed in elaborate garments like the stoic Asian poet. The poetry of these famous poets was entered into competitions at the imperial court; simultaneously portraits were erected to depict the authors in tandem with their writings.In this particular scroll, animals like the snake and tiger, with their smug expressions, extravagant robes, and blinding bling, are skewing...
...takes it, so to speak, like a man: "big girls don't cry." The boy has second thoughts ("Maybe I was cruel [actually, "ca-roo-oo-ool"]/ Maybe I'm a fool") and learns from her mother that the girl was "cryin' in bed," devastated despite her stoic front. Lesson learned: "big girls...
...John Keegan. Casting a cold eye over 4,000 years of mortal combat convinces this British historian that making war is basically a bad habit. Unromantic about the profession of arms but nevertheless sympathetic to the warrior class, Keegan conveys the grim details of warmaking operations with a stoic clarity that blurs all flags and levels all battlefields...
...driven by their stoic leader (the excellent Jamie Foxx) they play brutal football games in full field regalia. And await the inevitable Dear John letters from home (one of which arrives in the form of a video showing a wife having it off with a civilian back home). And set their tent afire with some careless cookery...