When you ask Kuito's townsfolk how life is these days, the stoical response is usually ambivalent.

BBC: Mission impossible for UN in Kuito

And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class.

NEWYORKER: Vera Drake

Canada is a country of ferocious northern winters, whose stoical people are used to battening down their hatches.

ECONOMIST: Peace, order and rocky government

It has servants who are unflinchingly stoical and masters whose self-restraint deserts them.

WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Julian Fellowes: The Anti-Snobbery of 'Downton Abbey'

They stand at the aid agency relief centre in stoical, patient silence waiting their turn with more dignity than I'm sure I could muster.

BBC: (Mis)reporting Sudan's famine

Stoical about scandalmongering books about his family and gossip-column misinformation about himself, he was as determined as his mother to protect his personal privacy.

CNN: Brought up to be a good man

His anger in a NATO ministerial and subsequent public remarks was palpable, a stark contrast to the stoical, if not flaccid, demeanor that has been his trademark.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gates' Choice: His Damage to the All-Volunteer Force

In Labour ranks, the response ranges from confident to stoical.

BBC: Planning for the future

He is stoical about the planned cuts.

BBC: Historic Mount Edgcumbe's uncertain future

The main problem is not lingering Marxist habits of thought: a taste for all-in-one explanation, a romantic refusal to temper the desirable with the achievable, a stoical faith that the historical agent of radical change may yet appear, though none is now visible.

ECONOMIST: Political ideas