How To Use Ascetic In A Sentence

Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30
The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
Orphaned and blinded from childhood, he became an ascetic freethinker and materialist.
Ascetic structuralism was a major line of enquiry in the London-based structural movement.
The people communicate with him by way of ascetic disciplines on certain sacred mountains.

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But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were
However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
He formed an order of ascetics devoted to develop a sense of community with the help of religious injunctions and instructions.
He balances imaginative contemplation of Christ's Passion with calls to ascetic efforts, regarding each as balancing and correcting the dangers of the other.
With regard to marriage Luther pursues the same idea: The marital relationship between a man and a woman is true chastity and of higher value than monastic asceticism.
Without missing a beat, the taller man handed Dickie a beer (apparently it was not too early to drink), and began challenging his opponent to distinguish between the genuine ascetic and what he termed the conspicuously nonconsuming -poverty snob. Villa Incognito
It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly. Twilight
The first Buddhist bhikkhunis were originally Jain ascetics and much of the Jain terminology came into the bhikkhuni vow texts. A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages �� Part Two: Day One
The family lived rather ascetically.
In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras.
And, O son of Kunti, in that spot is the tirtha called Asoka abounding in woody retreats of ascetics. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
Let thy self-discipline be not in ascetical exercises as the false teachers (1Ti 4: 3, 8; compare 2Ti 2: 22, 23; Heb Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras.
The harsh ascetic, however, is the one the word ascetic most generally conjures up. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
He is not explicitly called a Nazarite, nor is there any mention of the unshaven hair, but the severe austerity of his life agrees with the supposed asceticism of the Nazarites. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Imagine a particularly ascetic monastic order, whose rule not only enjoins chastity, but forbids sexual desire.
Essentially, the azad were itinerant mendicants who regularly practised extreme ascetic styles of religious devotion, as a mark of their ‘other worldliness.’
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
Then acerb old John Cotton and some other Boston ascetics Sabbath in Puritan New England
Resigning his see to write, preach, and travel, he lived ascetically in London.
(the possession of correct views, decision and purity of thought and will, the ability of reproducing any sound uttered in the universe, vow of poverty, asceticism, attainment of meditative abstraction of self-control, religious recollectedness, honesty and virtue), and such doctrines. Buddhism and Buddhists in China
A spare, sinewy ascetic, he gazes at the crucifix with an emotional intensity unseen in paintings of the early 1470s.
Aaschik Pasha, who was a dervis and celebrated ascetic poet in the reign of Murad (Amurath) I. Ahmed, the author of the work, lived during the reign of Bajazet I.., but, he says, derived much information from the book of Scheik Jachshi, the son of Elias, who was I.aum to Sultan History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
These three constitute the Supernal Triad - those spheres which are wholly outside the realm of direct human experience for all but the most disciplined and ascetic individuals.
Not surprisingly, the one-armed baba and other members of the militant ascetic Juna Akhara sect are big fans of the Ram temple.
I am a very ascetic person and essentially prefer the feeling of not buying something to the feeling of buying it. Times, Sunday Times
Joe Stirt says: "Swiss luxury penmaker Montblanc has just come out with a $23,000 pen to commemorate the austere, asceticleader of Indian independence's birth on this date (October 2) in 1869. Boing Boing
she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself
Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book? The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
While hardly ideal, our living arrangements were suitably ascetic, and conducive to inner preparation.
So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Les Miserables
I don't mean mystics and ascetics, who are often wrongly accused of such world - hatred.
Monks in the other sects either lived alone during the vassa, or they put up wherever they happened to be, sharing a forest clearing with ascetics who followed quite different dhammas. Buddha
Here was a maximalist in a landscape of ascetics, an inclusivist in love with the dictionary and world.
It is mystical and ascetic, with the sisters observing vows of poverty, chastity and silence.
His elegant epistles, brilliant treatises, and eloquent protreptics for asceticism appeared to promise him great things.
But his personal asceticism and disdain for the managerialism of modern politics brought its own difficulties.
Monk, also known by the ancient Indian Brahmanism, the medieval Catholic ascetics, etc.
Other extant ascetical florilegia still remain unedited. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The seventies were very sleek and empty, more concerned with structure, form, and a certain kind of ascetic rigorousness.
It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue. Narrative Strategies
Yet the texts are firmly part of the later medieval world: the first two come from the writings of visionary women mystics and the last from a rigorously ascetic monastic theologian.
One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
Asceticism and self-flagellation mortified the flesh.
And yet there was a certain ascetic lengthening of the lines of his face. Chapter 20: A Lost Oligarch
They boasted of their Jewish circumcision and of their Greek philosophy, recommended angelolatry and ascetic practices. The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.
After only three years her natural frailty and the rigours of her ascetic devotions killed her.
The beetle in his eyes is no ordinary beetle, but one of the gods incarnated in the insect for this special purpose; and the fakir is a holy ascetic, who has acted in this case by the order of the same god. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
A friend of mine has gone for an ascetic existence, having denounced the demon drink, and even resolved to stop swearing.
She wants to destroy and simplify; but it isn't the simplicity of the ascetic, which is of the spirit, but the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilization to a featureless monotony. Greenmantle
In the sect, there was an esoteric minority called perfecti, who were supposed to obey the strict rules of an ascetic ethic; the rest were auditores, who followed, at a distance, the doctrines of the perfecti but not their rules. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
I agree the tunnel would be the most ascetically pleasing option, but I'm pretty sure they could change any ordinance if they needed to. Sound Politics: Mayor Gridlock
Early descriptions Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times.
We can see well enough that Paul had to fight the Gnostics, the Platonists, and the ascetics on these counts.
On its distant, furthest peak, ascetics are said to enact their own funerals and smear themselves with funeral-pyre ash.
With the "Théologie familière" they exhibit a fair specimen of Saint-Cyran's galimatias and obscure asceticism. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
But we cannot leave the statement even here without explaining that we use the word ascetic in its proper sense, to connote the rightful dominance of reason over appetite, the supremacy of the higher over the lower; not the jurisdiction of the judge over the criminal. Life of Father Hecker
He is composing a straight sextet for principals of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has premiered a ballet in Vienna and has been welcomed at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM, crucible of ascetic futurism.
Early descriptions Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times.
In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism.
His earlier life of self-indulgence had been unsatisfying, as was his six-year experiment with ascetic penances.
Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it
The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.
The church itself became a two-class system: the ascetic monasteries versus the more worldly regular clergy.
One of the most famous instances of the married ascetic is Tolstoy, whose later opinion was that the highest human being completely inhibits his sex-desires and lives a celibate life. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
The father was in something of a strait between the Christian dignification of marriage and its ascetic depreciation. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
The Nazarite from nazir, a Hebrew word meaning “set aside” or “dedicated” is a person who takes an ascetic vow not to drink wine, cut his or her hair, or attend funerals. The Blessing of a B Minus
In his time the religious energy and zeal were flowing away from the empirical world into the desert of otherworldliness, asceticism and renunciation.
And as he looked at her and considered her curiously, an object to enamour an ascetic and make a devotee lovesick, fire was lighted in his vitals and he cried, Folk say that whoso taketh up his abode in this house dieth or sickeneth. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The crude cells for the monks behind would certainly have encouraged a decidedly ascetic life. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
This analysis seems plausible in theory, but it ought to be noted that the most popular person to be beatified in recent years is the stigmatic Padre Pio, who was very much an eccentric, an ascetic, and a prodigy.
Later, the Fuke school came to be composed primarily of wandering, non-ordained ascetics who specialized in playing the shakuhachi flute.
If the ascetic moralist was a quasi - mathematician, the casuist was a kind of medical man. CASUISTRY
This Pharisee was boasting, in other words, of an asceticism beyond the norm.
In other words, the noble landlords and magnates, whose values were decidedly not those of Puritan asceticism, were in the vanguard of capitalism.
Known as Sufi (literal meaning - wool, as in ascetics who wore woolen garments), they opted for solitude and abnegation, renouncing physical comforts.
Are all men welcome to go there only if they live as monks, sharing the humility and simple lives of the inhabitants, eating, dressing, and living ascetically and piously, etc.?
I objected to his use of the word ascetic, because it's a positive word to me, indicating that the other kind of life is not as good -- medievalist girl here, I view asceticism as a good thing, but also an intentional thing -- you're not ascetic if you don't live the way you do intentionally, so as to be more holy/awesome. Fairyland
The leaves are said to be invigorating and an aphrodisiac and, therefore, not to be used by celibates and ascetics.
Participants examine ancient practices, contemporary practices, iconography, literature and even the way in which modern medical research supports some of the traditional claims of ascetics.
Buddhism requires ascetic behaviour, including fasting, by its monks, but not from other followers.
While the ascetic regime of an Italian seminarist in the late nineteenth century was of course alien - and sometimes alienating - I was impressed by his devotion and sincerity.
And having crossed this herbless plain, the king came upon another forest full of the retreats of ascetics, beautiful to look at, delightful to the heart and of cool agreeable breezes. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
Sufism emphasises the more mystical and ascetic aspects of the religion.
Both an ascetic monk and a high-living playboy may assign 1000 units to a steak and 100 units to a potato .
There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians.
While hardly ideal, our living arrangements were suitably ascetic, and conducive to inner preparation.
The protagonist moves through various stages of life, from living with ascetics to participating in the marketplace, neither of which bring satisfaction.
For very much of the literature that comes under this head of demonology is tainted with errors that may well owe their origin to the father of falsehood, and much of it again, especially those portions which have a practical purpose (what may be called the ascetical and mystical demonology) is designed to lead men to give themselves to the service of Satan. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Father Bourgoing was a wrier of the first rank of asceticism, as Bossuet testifies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Ye, O honoured ones, have turned yourselves away from the sweets of life and endured the pains of asceticism for the sake of Him Who hath come down unto the earth and voluntarily peregrinated thereon for our sake; therefore ye have, O wonderworthy ones, acquired in heaven the Hospitable One. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
Missionaries in the African churches, and probably elsewhere, were normally unmarried ascetics living in the utmost simplicity.
Not only are there bondslaves and a king, and cruel punishments for the breach of the marriage contract, in that happy island, but there is throughout an atmosphere of asceticism.
It is an actual example of "realism" unencumbered and applied with great rigor, and it is likely to unmoor the assumptions of those readers tied to a more conventionalized, less ascetic understanding of the role of "realistic" dialogue. Narrative Strategies
There were the pillarists, like Simeon Stylites, who displayed his asceticism, his privations and penitences high above the market place for all eyes to see.
They are neither cutesy, comedic Yiddishers nor noble, chiseled, ascetically moral kibbutzniks. Bradley Burston: Winslet, 'Waltz,' and How Hollywood Likes Its Jews
Bernard's over-rigorous pursuit of ascetic discipline adversely affected his health.
Heracles there appears a philanthropical as well as an ascetic theme, a hedonistic attraction towards a sim - pler, more natural way of life as a reaction against artificiality and excessive civilization. CYNICISM
She had lived ascetically to the point where she destroyed her fragile mental and physical health.
In this setting, less advanced monks practiced the ascetic life under the tutelage of a more experienced master. Christianity Today
The Sword Masters are warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence.
If you live like an ascetic monk a small hired van may suffice. Times, Sunday Times
“He affronted polite society, conformed to no one's dictates, lived like an ascetic and worked like a packmule,” says a contemporary. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
I am a very ascetic person and essentially prefer the feeling of not buying something to the feeling of buying it. Times, Sunday Times
If you live like an ascetic monk a small hired van may suffice. Times, Sunday Times
Weber's texts also employ the typology to distinguish the asceticism of medieval monastics from that of Calvinism.
The history of ideas shows clearly that the eudaemonistic, Socratic asceticism, which is pedagog - ically motivated and has its background in the peda - gogical debate of the fifth and fourth centuries, belongs to Cynic philosophy from its beginning. CYNICISM
Not seldom, in fact, they interlard their plans and hopes for a revival of the sacred liturgy with principles which compromise this holiest of causes in theory or practice, and sometimes even taint it with errors touching Catholic faith and ascetical doctrine. The Sacred Liturgy: The First School of the Faith
At the same time, the asceticism in western Christianity had also produced important influence on him.
And becoming pre-eminent in ascetic habits, she was wont to wear raiment of triple roughness. Psalms of the Sisters
The motive was mainly ascetic, but was in part connected with the greater authority which, in antiquity, attached to such renunciation.
This is all the more difficult because many liberation theologians continue to use a great deal of the Church's classical ascetical and dogmatic language while changing its signification. Is Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., right or wrong...
Reminded me of British colonialist discourse which deemd Hinduism “ascetical” and “fatalistic” (and thus a pat reason for the poverty in India), never mind the “Victorian Holocausts” and other inconvenient truths. Matthew Yglesias » Aid, Growth, and Counterinsurgency
In the past he had enjoyed luxury, but as he grew more fanatical, his lifestyle grew more ascetic. Times, Sunday Times
I'd asked Mark Twight to be my partner because he was a bold alpinist known for climbing fast and light, an ascetic philosophy I live by.
Following closely to this preoccupation with asceticism was monasticism which spread with incredible rapidity.
This revolt, joined to an ascetic and sterile devotion to positive fact, would ultimately slay even God.
That is why the rich used to gorge on it; fighters are still fed on it; and ascetics reject it.
What he heard, he took literally and gave up all that he owned and went off to learn about the ascetic life. Times, Sunday Times
They appear as often as not in religious contexts and associated with marginal Christian groups, whether ascetics or heretics.
He walked away from every system of thought and every ascetic setup that was offered to him as an alternative.
A hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance.
Zacharias Werner, author of a number of romantic melodramas, the heroes of which are described as monkish ascetics, religious mystics, and "spirits who wander on earth in the guise of harp-players" -- Zacharias Werner also went to Vienna and joined the order of Ligorians. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
And then one chill afternoon, sitting buttock to buttock with Fawn Greenstreet — Bodhi — on one side of him and Karuna on the other, staring through the long-nosed ascetic face of Geshe Stephen and digging inward, shovelful by shovelful, bup-bup-bah came to him. The Silence
Mystics and ascetics have been telling us for ages that the goal of life is to learn how to die.
I was simply fighting against what I perceived as biblical, doctrinal, and ascetic fundamentalism.
In effect , said Weber, this meant displacing the monastic - style discipline, self - denial, and ascetics into secular life.
At the same time, however, the Church also honored an ascetic ideal.
The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.
The "simplicity of the ascetic" is usurped by "the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilisation". Archive 2005-08-01
The abode of the ascetics is depicted with a pathetic grace that we only find paralleled in the "Admetus" of Euripides. Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala
Tales of plentiful pearls, exotic spices, and ascetic holy men, like the present-day sadhu shown here, appear in pages on India in Marco's book from the late 1290s, The Description of the World.
The leaves are said to be invigorating and an aphrodisiac and, therefore, not to be used by celibates and ascetics.
But by ascetic restraint and by introspective contemplation, the soul can ascend to its true fulfilment.
Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the centre of the novel.
Some ancient Gnostics were ascetic but others counseled sexual license.
Cornet always led a frugal and ascetic life, able to live contentedly for weeks on end with the same menu of rice and dried fish.
By contrast, the sort of Church that Montanus offered was one of ecstatic prophecy, immediate eschatology, ascetic moral rigorism, and, at the same time, institutional chaos.
We've seen the interview with the ascetic visionary who squats before a frugal meal among his disciples.
The Sword Masters are warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence.
He was also more adept at using his rhetorical skills in the service of theology and asceticism.
His ascetic aspirations did not make him wish to be a hermit.
Catholicism, of which both the diplomatical and the ascetic parties in the Church, Jesuits and Theatines, were eager to take advantage. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
Through the ages Christian mystics have also pursued joy through ascetic, rather than ecstatic, disciplines.
The metaphysical mystery, thus recognized by common sense, that he who feeds on death that feeds on men possesses life supereminently and excellently, and meets best the secret demands of the universe, is the truth of which asceticism has been the faithful champion. The Varieties of Religious Experience
Taking his new-found asceticism a step further, there is growing talk that the prime minister will even pay homage at the shrine of one of Italy's most revered stigmatics, St Pio of Pietrelcina. Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news
What he heard, he took literally and gave up all that he owned and went off to learn about the ascetic life. Times, Sunday Times
The major sect of Udasin ascetics was originally not Shaiva - nor even Hindu - but belonged to the Sikh religion.
The crude cells for the monks behind would certainly have encouraged a decidedly ascetic life. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
We can see well enough that Paul had to fight the Gnostics, the Platonists, and the ascetics on these counts.
Despite their non-Christian inspiration the practical effect of these beliefs was an asceticism among the perfecti far more in accord with Christian precepts than the laxity of many of the Roman clergy. HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Now his life is ascetic and cosy. Times, Sunday Times
Past life accounts (skyes-pa’i rabs, Skt. jataka) are accounts of the difficult ascetic practices that Buddha performed in his previous lives while engaging in the conduct of the bodhisattvas. The Twelve Scriptural Categories
He fell to greedily, as the tastes and the toasts went up and down the table, in a manner alien to his usual asceticism. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Orphaned and blinded from childhood, he became an ascetic freethinker and materialist.
And, O son of Kunti, in that spot is the _tirtha_ called Asoka abounding in woody retreats of ascetics. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
The double cloak here is the diplois, the pallium, doubled in length, worn without the underlying tunic or any other undergarment by ascetics and Cynic philosophers.
The paduka or toe-knob sandals were usually worn by ascetics and mendicants.
There are people everywhere: market touts, pilgrims, ascetics draped in beaded necklaces, Sikhs with full beards and curled moustaches, women in red and pink silk with all the grace of Bollywood stars.
And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover. Irene Monroe: The Gandhi None of Us Knew
If you live like an ascetic monk a small hired van may suffice. Times, Sunday Times
Religion advocates that we must renounce all worldly material things and become ascetics.
The composition of hymns of the Rig-Veda was done by Hindu recluses, ascetics, Rishis and Sages rooted in the realities of life inside the society.
In the past he had enjoyed luxury, but as he grew more fanatical, his lifestyle grew more ascetic. Times, Sunday Times
For Brendan, salvation is best accomplished through the monastic way, understood as a combination of ascetic practices and liturgical observance.
There is something priestly about him, a lofty, ascetic air.
The venerable ascetic Mahavira for a year and a month wore clothes; after that time he walked about naked, and accepted alms in the hollow of his hand.
Could one have imagined that the brilliant wit, the luxuriant raillery, and the fine and deep sense of PASCAL, could have combined with the most opposite qualities -- the hypochondriasm and bigotry of an ascetic? Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
His path was called ‘the Middle Way’, between life in society (seeking pleasures) and the life of a rigorous ascetic (fasting and mortifying the flesh).
At last one day, when he could think no longer, and dumb instinct awoke in him, he crawled down to the water and lay in a warm shallow water utterly fordone, and the five ascetics with whom he had held counsel and who expected great results from this incredible suffering said, one to another: ‘He will die now.’
Reflects Meyers: ‘Orwell's austere, dour, spartan and ascetic character as well as his tall, gangly figure was more Scottish than English.’
Fr Robinson, the founder of the Toronto Oratory, is a philosopher and a student of the spiritual and ascetical tradition of the Church. Interpreting Newman’s Beatification: Reactions from Key Figures
The ascetical florilegia are collections of moral sentences and excerpts drawn partly from the Scriptures and partly from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The second is the way of the ascetic, the stoic, the fakir. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
He was a Capuchin, which meant a life of asceticism and poverty.
These are bleak, sad stories set in a comfortless world, and the manner of their telling is accordingly plain (but not simple), as though their author has vowed himself to verbal asceticism in pursuit of a hard truth.
The Bishop nodded his approval of this asceticism before accepting the offer of a second helping from Madeleine.
When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints, and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and their more extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were
The ascetic modernists' rejection of history in order to create a visionary brave New World was clearly incompatible with the historic pub.
Though we may sift through the details of his asceticism, we must agree about the fact of living ascetically. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
It, indeed, sent the stylite to his pillar, the hermit to the wilderness, the ascetic to the scourge and hair-cloth shirt; but it also led the warrior to the Holy Land, the beggar to the castle-hearth, and the workman to the building of the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
One of the most insightful pieces she published on Borges was "A Postmodern Approach to Fictional History in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and the Asceticism of Ezra Buckley" in which Palin brilliantly deconstructed the notion of history relative to the character, Ezra Buckley, in a way that the late Jacques Derrida wrote, "Je m'em branle! Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It?
Be it understood that the shocking thing which we know as Comstockery, goes back into the centuries for its origin; being, indeed, the perfect flower of that asceticism, which was engrafted on the degraded Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906
The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.
Although a passionate lover in his youth, after his baptism by Ambrose he became a champion of asceticism.
The false ascetic, the perfidious and murderous crone and the old hag-procuress who pimps like Umm Kulsum,341 for mere pleasure, in the luxury of sin, are drawn with an experienced and loving hand. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In this setting, less advanced monks practiced the ascetic life under the tutelage of a more experienced master. Christianity Today
A special sanctity often attached to religious hermits and saintly ascetics, who were revered for their piety and sought out for the healing abilities of the blessed power attributed to them.
My tastes are modest to the point of ascetic austerity.
ascetic practices
Come then and give yourselves to Christ, not repelled by any false, ascetic views of his religion, but believing, as his word entitles you to believe, that it is the promoter of innocent joy, of healthy and grateful recreation, of the highest and purest pleasures. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
In his time, ascetics and recluses again made an attempt to enter the Guru's flock.

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