How To Use Asceticism In A Sentence
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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
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He was a Capuchin, which meant a life of asceticism and poverty.
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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.
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The Bishop nodded his approval of this asceticism before accepting the offer of a second helping from Madeleine.
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Though we may sift through the details of his asceticism, we must agree about the fact of living ascetically.
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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?
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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
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Although a passionate lover in his youth, after his baptism by Ambrose he became a champion of asceticism.
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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
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He next practised asceticism, which was very common among Samanas.
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Their asceticism and bodhisattva qualities led their followers to attribute to them a range of supernormal powers, such as discerning other people's thoughts, clairvoyance and ability to ward off malevolent spirits.
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And that is why our scriptures and other art-works, when they deal with love, turn from honest attempts at science in physics to romantic nonsense, erotic ecstasy, or the stern asceticism of satiety (the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom said William Blake; for you never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough).
Epistle Dedicatory
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The icon, in particular, is a practical form of art, dealing directly with questions of spiritual life such as holiness and asceticism.
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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
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Celtic Christianity in the sixth through tenth centuries was characterized by its extreme asceticism, its love of learning, and its distinctive monasticism.
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Buddhism corrupted by Brahmic theocracy -- as Christianity by Mosaic rites, by papistic theology and sectarian piety -- has come to us as a morbid asceticism or worse, delighting in self-inflicted individual tortures and revelling in unthinkable contradictions.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
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She suspected that beneath his righteous asceticism he possessed a hidden longing for the easy life.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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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.
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Although a passionate lover in his youth, after his baptism by Ambrose he became a champion of asceticism.
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He had now experienced both the extremes of a life of ease and comfort (as a prince) and the life of extreme austerity and asceticism.
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Unfortunately, the Romans, whether enjoying the decadence of a savoured cheroot in Egypt or the smoke-free asceticism of Rome, appear bound by the very buckles on their peculiar boots.
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You seem to have found a balance between absolute asceticism and utter hedonism.
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It belongs to the tradition of Titian and Rembrandt and Delacroix, and not just to the asceticism and idealism of the early twentieth century.
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As a form of asceticism, celibacy's heroic demands are more at home with a hermit in the desert or a monk in a monastery than with a priest ministering in today's highly charged sexual atmosphere.
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Asceticism affected the sexual idea deeply and extensively in modern times in China.
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Father Bourgoing was a wrier of the first rank of asceticism, as Bossuet testifies.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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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
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Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
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(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
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His elegant epistles, brilliant treatises, and eloquent protreptics for asceticism appeared to promise him great things.
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But his personal asceticism and disdain for the managerialism of modern politics brought its own difficulties.
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Asceticism and self-flagellation mortified the flesh.
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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
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In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism.
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In his time the religious energy and zeal were flowing away from the empirical world into the desert of otherworldliness, asceticism and renunciation.
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This Pharisee was boasting, in other words, of an asceticism beyond the norm.
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In other words, the noble landlords and magnates, whose values were decidedly not those of Puritan asceticism, were in the vanguard of capitalism.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Weber's texts also employ the typology to distinguish the asceticism of medieval monastics from that of Calvinism.
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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
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At the same time, the asceticism in western Christianity had also produced important influence on him.
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Following closely to this preoccupation with asceticism was monasticism which spread with incredible rapidity.
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He was also more adept at using his rhetorical skills in the service of theology and asceticism.
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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
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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.
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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
