I n Colm Tóibín’s indelibly moving 2009 novel, “Brooklyn,” set in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey emigrates from her economically ...

Valery, 64, was evacuated Saturday morning, and like most residents, appeared calm and stoical. "The most important thing is ...

It’s surprisingly hard to concentrate on something as simple as what comes after Tuesday when surgeons are cutting inside ...

"It's quite scary to think about preparing for it," Katie said. Others, like Robin and Adrian, are stoical and said it would hardly affect them, although they concede blackouts would be tough to ...

When a teenage Israeli shepherd died, a terrible price was paid by Palestinians living near by as settler violence reaches ...

Francis feels very frustrated,” Eleanor Coppola, his stoical wife, wrote in 1976. “He gathers up his Oscars and throws them out the window. The children pick up the pieces in the backyard. Four of the ...

The stoical Oriental faces betrayed no emotion. Ethnologically and traditionally, white and yellow and brown are races apart. How could [a defense lawyer's] plea appeal to the six men to whom the ...

Queen Camilla's support for King Charles during his cancer scare has brought her closer to the British public, a royal ...

A steady trickle of well-wishers came through, but Woodrow Wilson remained a haunted man, wavering between bitterness and stoical resignation to fate. Before leaving office, he had won the Nobel ...

The Queen, stoical in black, laid the first wreath in tribute to the fallen. A wreath was also laid on behalf of the embattled Prince of Wales, who was abroad. A further absentee was the Countess ...