1. They live a very ascetic life.

2. He lived as an ascetic.

3. The monks lived a very ascetic life.

4. The hermit followed an ascetic life - style.

5. Living hidden away in the mountains suited his ascetic character.

6. Counterbalancing this ascetic wunderkind is his brother, Charles Solomon.

7. Louis became an extremely devout and ascetic man.

8. The ascetic modernists' rejection of history in order to create a visionary brave New World was clearly incompatible with the historic pub.

9. We may imagine an ascetic who consistently chooses the sour instead of the sweet apple, in order to mortify the flesh.

10. While hardly ideal, our living arrangements were suitably ascetic, and conducive to inner preparation.

11. Like the ascetic movement of which it was an outgrowth, monasticism had its origins in the Middle East.

12. The church itself became a two-class system: the ascetic monasteries versus the more worldly regular clergy.

13. Fenton, thin, balding and ascetic, was another veteran.

14. This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices.

15. Fenton was a thin,[Sentence dictionary] balding and ascetic man.

16. He lives an ascetic life.

17. Ascetic monks all have tough wills.

18. His thin, ascetic face mirrows an intensity of thought.

19. I shall never be an ascetic.

20. I shall never be an ascetic if she does not take the vow with me.

21. Both an ascetic monk and a high-living playboy may assign 1000 units to a steak and 100 units to a potato .

22. She has never been close to her ascetic, workaholic father.

23. That waggery of fate...banished the wild and ascetic heath lad to a trade...

24. Other forms of holiness - that of the virgin and the ascetic - were assimilated to martyrdom.

25. In some ways, Livesey seems to have led an abstemious, not to say ascetic life.

26. It demanded a leafy, abundant, ovoid religion, not a stony, nomadic, ascetic religion.

27. At the same time, however, the Church also honored an ascetic ideal.

28. It might have been Covenant, but they never varied from their big-ugly oblate blue-gray ascetic.

29. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

30. Even the epigraph to The Line of Beauty - a passage from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - suggests a playfulness at odds with his ascetic reputation.

1. They live a very ascetic life.

31. The ordinary Yogi - ascetic has a fantastic ― a fantastically distracting, a fascinating ― life!

32. At times, so tightly did they draw , the mouth became stern and harsh, even ascetic.

33. We normally see an ascetic ( Sadhu ) meditating in a Yogic pose.

34. A hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance.

35. Ascetic and pragmatic, in their remote monastic eyrie they remained aloof from mundane strife, wrapped in meditation that knew no gods or elements of magic.

36. In contemporary Shanghai, architectural styles all coincide – the crassest postmodern revivalism and the purest ascetic modernism.

37. He is ascetic and has a good attitude towards everything.

38. So, therefore, we must take up, he suggests, an ascetic path,engaging only, as he says, in "those works" that are fit "for such men as come proud, open-eyed" and laughing to the tomb.

39. The ascetic saint and the detached sage fail in this respect to be complete human beings.

40. He simply smile and said, " I am indeed an ascetic person. "

41. Vanamee turned his lean ascetic face toward him, his black eyes fixed attentively.

42. To survive on this ascetic diet, Pinus longaeva invests very little energy in growth.

43. He left the luxuries of the court for the life of an ascetic.

44. For instance, Leo Tolstoy, a great and good man, at one time a sensualist, has now turned ascetic; a common evolution in the lives of the saints.

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45. 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.

46. Christian family ethics in Medieval Europe includes marriage ethics, conjugal ethics and parent-child ethics. It is provided with characteristic of ascetic, contradictoriness and flexibility.

47. A Hindu ascetic, or sadhu, wrapped in a bright-red cloth, smokes underneath a vad (banyan) tree outside a temple in Mumbai (Bombay), India.