How To Use Monkish In A Sentence
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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
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The broiled rouget (with daikon radish and crunchy yellow lentils) had a similarly monkish, almost dried-out quality.
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Then he confesses he has 'monkish' tendencies - hence his choice of hotel today.
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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
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Photographs of him make him appear dour, and he lived a monkish kind of life.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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When it comes to discussing Governor David Paterson's political future, New York Democrats are impressively, almost monkishly, focused on the present.
Paterson Inspires Senators to Care Deeply About Their Work
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The poetic use of words in unusual, appealing ways: an intellectual, lives monkishly, coddling a loss — a deceased or divorced wife, dead children, a missing brother.
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In the front yard the pot-bellied officer was scowling and grunting, exclaiming angrily to the monkish gatekeeper.
COUP D'ETAT
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Here was a dilemma for the monkish student! whose vow of obedience to patristical guidance was thus sorely perplexed; he read and re-read, analyzed passage after passage, interpreted word after word; and yet, poor man, his laborious study was fruitless and unprofitable!
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Yet it is not simply black and white that must be made valuable, rare worth must be given to each colour employed; 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 plainly companions in the same gay world; while the white, black, and neutral grey should stand monkishly aloof in the midst of them.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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True, skepticism had been spawned, and throughout Western Europe grave and dedicated men were poring over charters, deeds, and cartularies, and casting a jaundiced eye on those monkish tales that had done service for history for nearly a thousand years.
Amateurs
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This most extraordinary pile was situated in a deep valley, closely surrounded by hills, as though the very light of the sun had been an indulgence too great for the mortified beings who once inhabited there to enjoy, while the croaking of rooks, the dashing of a waterfall, and the gloom of overhanging woods, seemed well calculated to sooth that melancholy, which, in the idea of monkish superstition constituted that divine principle whose real existence dissipates every mental gloom, and diffuses serenity and joy through all the powers of the soul.
Ashton Priory
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The questions mooted he referred to a mere monkish jealousy -- an unsober gust of passion which would soon blow over.
Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties
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In the front yard the pot-bellied officer was scowling and grunting, exclaiming angrily to the monkish gatekeeper.
COUP D'ETAT
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Temple, something of a clerkly monkish atmosphere, which public offices of law have not disturbed, and even legal firms have failed to scare away.
Barnaby Rudge
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What is more worthy of note is the credulity with which he swallows the fabulous inventions of the "monkish chroniclers" when set before him in English earthenware.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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But I never thought of him as anti-violent until Uma Thurman's father came on my "Con Games" radio show in Aspen to lead me monkishly down the path of virtue.
Michael Conniff: CON GAMES: Violence On The QT With Quentin Tarantino
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The broiled rouget (with daikon radish and crunchy yellow lentils) had a similarly monkish, almost dried-out quality.
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In the front yard the pot-bellied officer was scowling and grunting, exclaiming angrily to the monkish gatekeeper.
COUP D'ETAT
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My object, indeed, in the introduction of the Danish Vala especially, has been perhaps as much addressed to the reason as to the fancy, in showing what large, if dim, remains of the ancient "heathenesse" still kept their ground on the Saxon soil, contending with and contrasting the monkish superstitions, by which they were ultimately replaced.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
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Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever!
The Caged Lion
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In Spain, there are few or no schools in the villages and small towns, that would have the effect of releasing the minds of the natives from monkish tyranny, which at present influences their principles, and biasses their choice, with regard to political, and indeed almost all other pursuits.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
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There were some who said it was a monkish trick, contrived for his own ends by one of the brethren from Beauvais, but, less than six months later, all Scotland believed that the skeleton masquer at Jedburgh had, indeed, come to warn an unfortunate land of its approaching doom.
Stories of the Border Marches
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Harry turned from the crosses in front of which he stood, and looked at the monkish fellow who was emerging from the mist.
EVERVILLE
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For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.
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Moreover, he believed very firmly in Christianity as the way of saving human beings, and he addicted to a monkish life.
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Arguments should not be pitched as if the judges were normal people with normal life experience; eschew plain common sense in favor of the kind of monkish jesuitical hair-splitting scholasticism that would make Plato’s headspin.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Oral Argument — Common Mistakes:
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Trained in mystical gravity-defying monkish martial arts, he is Team Celibate Vocation's ultimate weapon.
Vocations, Now in Five Colors!
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Countenances of such amazement were turned towards him, that Small, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, could scarcely forbear smiling as he proceeded; and if we could suspect so grave a personage of waggery, we should almost think that, by way of retaliation, he had palmed some abstruse, monkish epicedium upon his astounded auditors.
Rookwood
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Exactly," says Harmony, and die computer geeks, ever helpful, all nod monkishly in assent.
Shampoo Planet
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Some of the more learned men were kind of monkish, not sharing the values of the culture as a whole.
Schiele and synthesis revisted
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His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery.
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Vine-leaves and bunches of grapes decorate some of the more ancient columns inside the church, and grotesque mediæval monsters, such as monkish architects habitually delighted in, entwine themselves around the capitals of others.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
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Harry turned from the crosses in front of which he stood, and looked at the monkish fellow who was emerging from the mist.
EVERVILLE
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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