How To Use monkish In A Sentence
- I term monkish morality, to remark it by the way, such precepts of ethics, such rules of life as aro4e during the time when the monastic state was held to be the only holy condition of life, the only one well-pleasing to God, and al - most the only, at least the only safe means of becoming happy; when the whole of piety was made to consist in praying and singing, in a so - litary, inactive and contemplative lifci when it TOii. Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
- The broiled rouget (with daikon radish and crunchy yellow lentils) had a similarly monkish, almost dried-out quality.
- Then he confesses he has 'monkish' tendencies - hence his choice of hotel today. Home | Mail Online
- There are a few good stories to be found in this bric-a-brac collection of anecdotes, repartees, narratives of one kind and another, stories deserving of a better treatment than could be imparted by the monkish scribe who set them down in casual confusion; and more than one later poet and playwright has been able to pick a pearl of price out of this medieval medley. Introduction
- Photographs of him make him appear dour, and he lived a monkish kind of life.
- monkish" consecration to his craft we cannot do better than reproduce a passage, quoted by Pater, from his letters to Madame Colet: The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
- But ye've need of more care than I can give ye, and I've told ye, I can't be hallooing with no monkish folk.
- Nine tenths of the critical writing about commodity culture could be anthologized under the title Killjoy Was Here; whether the point of view is Marxist alienation or post-structuralist hauteur, it's a given that the critic is monkishly immune to the gratifications involved. Material Girl
- It is not, however, only white and black which you must make valuable; you must give rare worth to every colour you use; but the white and black ought to separate themselves quaintly from the rest, while the other colours should be continually passing one into the other, being all evidently companions in the same gay world; while the white, black, and neutral grey should stand monkishly aloof in the midst of them. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
- Indeed, solicitude did not terminate with them: the munificence of his disposition having spread itself through every county in which he owned a rood of land, as many prayers ascended for the repose of his spirit as ever petitioned Heaven from the mouths of "monkish beadsmen" in favor of power and virtue. Thaddeus of Warsaw