He was a practitioner of Stoicism, an ancient Greek religion that he helped bring to Rome.

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After killing Artorias you open up the rest of this lost world to explore, including the new multiplayer arena, the Battle of Stoicism.

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There was a lot of stoicism and reserve.

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Only the resilience of Wall Street and the stoicism of local punters like Maria Tsang seem to have calmed the panic -- for now.

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Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca, originally published in 1927, was considered a milestone in Eliot's development as a scholar of the Bard.

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In most of its manifestations, this stoicism is both admirable and beneficial.

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Harried, chased, both hunted and hunter, the blunt-nosed Matt Damon is a superhero reduced to pure reflex, yet, by means of his isolation and his stoicism, he becomes almost a romantic figure.

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That stoicism in the face of emotional testimony disappeared in the jury room, he said.

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One such film is "Colorado Territory" (1949), in which Raoul Walsh transformed his own "High Sierra" (1941), a classic portrait of an aging gangster played by Humphrey Bogart, into an elegiac western starring Joel McCrea, taking the opportunity to trim away the sentimentality of "High Sierra" and replace it with hard stoicism.

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