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How To Use asceticism In A Sentence

• But it will be remembered that he recognises the holiness of marriage and family life, and if he thinks virginity and coenobitism a higher life, has no mercy for the dilettante asceticism of a morbid or indolent "incivisme. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
• 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.
• 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:
• 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
• Although a passionate lover in his youth, after his baptism by Ambrose he became a champion of asceticism.
• She recognised in these doctrines the recurrence of daemonic, that is, of heathen conceptions; and condemned us secular Gnostic Christianity, with its asceticism and its lofty proclamations of the nobility and value of the Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
• He next practised asceticism, which was very common among Samanas.