| 单词 | ascetic |
| 例句 | Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery—humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Siddhartha said: 'You know, my friend, that even as a young man, when we lived with the ascetics in the forest, I came to distrust doctrines and teachers and to turn my back on them. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Wandering ascetics, they were three thin worn-out men, neither old nor young, with dusty and bleeding shoulders, practically naked, scorched by the sun, solitary, strange and hostile—lean jackals in the world of men. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course,” he said agreeably, cool as a priest in his dark suit and ascetic spectacles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He dreamt that Govinda stood before him, in the yellow robe of the ascetic. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered how once, as a youth, he had compelled his father to let him go and join the ascetics, how he had taken leave of him, how he had gone and never returned. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I am still a Samana, he thought, still an ascetic and a beggar. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He was no Brahmin, sharing the life of the Brahmins, no ascetic belonging to the Samanas. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z And the ascetic stood until his shoulders and legs no longer froze, till they were silent, till they were still. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha now also realized why he had struggled in vain with this Self when he was a Brahmin and an ascetic. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The ascetic anthropologist of New York’s streets calls fashion “the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” Op-Ed Columnist: Hunting Birds of Paradise 2011-04-06T19:39:26Z And now, even if you’re inclined to look at some of the pilgrims as “dissipated” for whatever reason, it’s still an inescapably ascetic, and often unpleasant, practice. | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2012-03-13T18:15:57Z It’s not long before one starts to wonder just what “Father” these ascetics are working in the name of. ‘Faith’ Review: Training to Fight Demons at a Monastery 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In a huge altarpiece, dramatic lighting calls attention to the sagging, wrinkled skin of St. Jerome, an early Christian ascetic who practiced penitential acts of self-deprivation and self-harm. SAM’s ‘Flesh and Blood’ exhibit depicts desire, violence and more using the artistic vessel of the human body 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He signed up to an optimistic delivery date of 10 months and, because his writing cell wasn't quite ascetic enough, decamped to Berlin to write in complete isolation. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z In his own life, Seymour is as ascetic as Manhattan allows. Ethan Hawke’s Life-Changing Music Lesson 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In the longest story, an unforgettable piece called “Priest,” an ascetic man living on the ground floor discovers an old photograph from his spiritually tumultuous seminary days. As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z He is gaunt, lined, ascetic, a face redolent of wisdom leavened with a touch of kindly and sympathetic wit. Peter Bradshaw on John Hurt: 'A virtual folk memory of wisdom and style' 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Rather than visiting other major houses of worship there, I zoomed in on the sadhus, ascetics who renounce the world to embark on religious quests. A breathtaking Himalayan journey to ‘the rooftop of the world’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Jackson wrote most of them, and as a songwriter he favors conventional, ascetic structures and plainspoken declarations, as on “Every Now and Then” and “That’s Where I Belong.” Critics' Choice: Alan Jackson?s ?Freight Train? Erykah Badu?s ?Return of the Ankh? She and Him?s ?Volume Two? 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z As Obama put it himself, decades later, "I was leading an ascetic existence, way too serious for my own good". Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z Dear Carolyn: I recently received a handmade wedding invitation from a friend who is somewhat of an ascetic. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is it a problem that we never have anything to say to each other? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Stunning though those pieces were, they look archaic compared to the ascetic “modern” style then being embraced by Ponti’s peers. Design: Gio Ponti, Designer of a Thousand Talents 2011-06-19T18:00:05Z Quirky and austere, air plants achieve ascetic transcendence. The Alien Minimalism of Air Plants 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Thus Springsteen jettisoned many compositions – love ballads, soul stompers and beery singalongs – simply because they didn't fit his ascetic vision. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z His house has no modern conveniences, and the clinic he soon goes to, staffed by slim women with light-colored eyebrows, is similarly ascetic. Review: ‘Evolution’ Goes to a Magical Place You Wouldn’t Want to Live In 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z A highlight is the appearance of the Naga sadhus, or ascetics, who worship Shiva and bathe on the first day of the festival. Hindu ascetics lead millions of Indians in holy bath 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z A stylite was an ascetic who lived, usually for religious reasons, perched day in, day out on top of a pillar. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z I even bought him a new monastic belt, as if donating to his ascetic wardrobe would somehow render me guiltless. Modern Love: Signs, Wonders and Fates Fulfilled 2010-02-20T06:33:00Z In fact, the pieces’ simplicity and solidity won Another Country a spot in the shops run by Monocle magazine, the arbiter of ascetic cool. T Magazine: Shop-Class Chic 2010-10-25T16:48:00Z Levin sounded more in tune with the language of Mozart’s Sonata in E-Flat, K. 481, bringing more character and variety to the rhetoric, and Hahn remained sharp and precise, but at an ascetic emotional distance. Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin, solo and together at Disney Hall 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The chromatic contrast between the inkiness of their cassocks and the room’s ascetic whiteness finds an echo in Rodrigues’s rigid dualism, a belief in absolutes that will be tested. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Indeed, on the magazine's more ascetic fringes, there is a tendency to view any kind of individual charisma as somehow morally suspect. Maggoty Lamb ponders British rock journalism's Hollywood potential 2011-03-23T15:48:13Z What makes him radical, still, are the terms of his independence: he has his own thriving record label, Tzadik, and his own ascetic East Village club, the Stone. Music Review | John Zorn: Exploring the Topography of John Zorn?s Continent 2010-02-19T22:52:00Z I don’t have a nightstand per se — my bedroom is rather ascetic, with only a bed nestled between the constellation-painted walls. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z I was almost ascetic in my serene rejection of the superficial. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z The ascetic Monk, for instance, is sent away with the music of high society, a soured Johann Strauss waltz. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z And like many others, as I would learn, I also wanted something a little bit naïve and capitalistic: to buy an ascetic experience. Seeking Solitude in Japan’s Mountain Monasteries 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z A: Some of his early writings are very restrained, almost ascetic. Book Talk: Great Reformer biography links Pope Francis to Argentine roots 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He first met him in 1990, when the prime minister was a Hindu ascetic and political activist who laughed often, though never with his eyes. Witness to a landslide 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It is minimalist outside and in, as ascetic as the commitment to this style should be. | The Triumph of Personal Style 2014-04-04T16:38:00Z It never met a cream sauce it didn’t love, a tie it couldn’t loosen, an ascetic it couldn’t convert. Perspective | Celebrate Mardi Gras with drinks that taste like New Orleans. Baby included. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z A self-taught cook, he became an excellent one, entertaining frequently in his small apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan but otherwise, according to Mr. Altshul, living an ascetic life in an austere home. Gil Marks, Historian of Jewish Food and Culture, Dies at 62 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Beckett’s work was famously free from concerns with conventional storytelling and unafraid of silence, spare to the point of ascetic. Three Literary Critics Who Engage With Their Subjects, Unconventionally 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z He does not look his age, more like an amiable ascetic with a tidy moustache, medium-length grey hair, dressed in a shirt and jeans. ECM: In search of free jazz and free expression 2013-03-26T14:00:31Z Sadhus are the holy men who dwell along the river, outside of society, extreme ascetics. Captivated by the Ganges, a River of Souls 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The war against carbohydrates is one of ascetic virtues, and it cannot be won without replacing our most decadent culinary pleasures. Rice that cauliflower and spiralize that zucchini all you want. You’ll still miss your carbs. 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z It is an enactment, staged, distanced, almost alien in its ascetic clarity: an empty performance of real life. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Would it be to learn that he hates money and harbors dreams of retiring to an ascetic, monk-like existence? In Bob Woodward’s ‘Rage,’ a Reporter and a President From Different Universes 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z But, favored by travelers and ascetics, it was equally used by Buddhists and Confucianists. A Dazzling Look at the World of Taoism 2010-04-09T11:55:00Z Or consider 12th century Taoist ascetics who thought sleep deprivation could bring them closer to the truth. Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Next to the Bouché is another little-known gem, from around 1924: Marguerite Zorach’s delicately limned three-quarters portrait of the poet Marianne Moore, looking starched and ascetic, with long and languid hands. Art Review: ‘Fine Lines,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-04-18T21:31:41Z Something of an ascetic, he disdained smoking and, for most of his life, drinking, and wore open-toed shoes the year round. Alan Davie, Painter With a Global Bent, Dies at 93 2014-04-17T03:18:03Z She's cooking spaghetti, but he tries to tempt her into a "proper dinner," playing Mephistopheles to her ascetic Faust. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The high regard that the artists he admired felt for Fénéon is evident in the portraits, most notably Signac’s depiction of him as an ascetic yet flamboyant ringmaster. Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Seemingly miraculous powers have long been ascribed to yogis, fakirs, ascetics and jadoowallahs, or street magicians. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z It sounds ascetic, but this is Japan, where simplicity means invention and elegance. Best places to eat and drink in Japan: readers’ travel tips 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The cagey Ory, sensing an opportunity, disguises himself as a hermit and is viewed by the solitary women as an ascetic, a seer. A Lively, Stylish Met Debut For Rossini?s Last Comic Opera 2011-03-25T14:01:52Z Oh, it’s fine for those Californians, those Floridians, to laze in midwinter on some sunny beach, peeling oranges and applying sunscreen to their bare limbs, but we—we’re of a more ascetic and sombre stock. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z She says, “I’m a vagabond at heart,” but her prose is more ascetic than her living quarters. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The partners, each 34, introduced their label, which marries opulent fabrics and ascetic cuts, in 2011, calling it Tome because, as they explained at the time, the name represented a new chapter in their careers. Model Casting: Countdown to Fashion Week: Model Casting About for Character 2013-08-28T20:39:01Z As it happens, the Gould estate and the Gould Foundation also were interested in demystifying the pianist’s image as an ascetic recluse. Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z And in a letter to fellow poet Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell wrote: “Hyman is awesomely consistent, brilliant, ascetic — more and more people say he is the best painter in America, and so he is.” Review | Artist Hyman Bloom’s body of work is revered. And the bodies are cadavers. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z His first piece, “Dandi,” demonstrated the renunciation of the wandering ascetic. Review: Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance, a Showcase of Dizzying Movement 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Sneaks, practices a rigorously minimal form of post-punk that borders on ascetic. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z “He used to be a partyer, a heavy drinker and pretty freewheeling socially. He completely became an ascetic — no coffee, no booze, no drugs, limited types of food. He’s just a bit more well-adjusted.” The War on Drugs Is Still Playing Rock the Old-Fashioned Way 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z As Lonoff’s wife says of her famously ascetic, scrupulous, fanatically driven husband, “Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of!” Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z If you ever thought directors' works were written in their faces – gaunt, elegant Michael Haneke; impish, sly Roman Polanski; ascetic, introverted Andrei Tarkovsky – then Reygadas is the exception that proves the rule. Carlos Reygadas: in defence of Post Tenebras Lux 2013-03-14T18:00:09Z "Royals" was a revelation upon its release, an ascetic pop song built around crisp snaps, intricate vocal arrangements and minimal keyboards, all anchored by Lorde's worldly vocals. The top 15 modern rock #1 hits that actually stand the test of time 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z In her book, Ernaux asserts that there is “something ascetic and sad, or disenchanted” about her younger self’s expression in this scene, adding that her smile lacks spontaneity. ‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But protein and light are necessary, even for an ascetic. Poem of the week: St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir by David Wheatley 2010-12-13T12:26:00Z “Over a long career, Ms. Herrera has accomplished a rare feat: she has managed to imbue her ascetic, normally impersonal mode of art with emotion and spirit.” Carmen Herrera, Cuban-Born Artist Who Won Fame at 89, Dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z With “nothingtoodoo,” his first solo show at the Mary Boone Gallery, Mr. Koh gives his ascetic side full reign, to disconcerting effect. Art Review: Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine 2011-03-10T16:30:07Z As precise as Kawaguchi is at duplicating Ohno’s twisted body moves and ascetic style, his primary purpose is something other than the creation of an exact copy — because he knows that’s impossible. An ode to an avant-garde Japanese dance legend, performed with body and soul 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z If Mr. Silvers is an ascetic in his work habits, he is also a voluptuary of sorts. Robert Silvers?s Long Reign at The New York Review of Books 2012-03-17T00:18:55Z And all these years we thought he was a clean-living vegetarian with an ascetic life. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z The officials swim in a fancy pool; the ascetic Salus prefers the ocean. Review: In ‘The Confessions,’ the Monk Has All the Answers 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z I’d conceived our ascetic desert romp not out of some joyless parental imperiousness, but because in California’s great nothingness I saw a path into the sublime. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z A journey through a world of severe altruism and ascetic selflessness. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z As the ascetic, he arched all the way back and sideways; his martial dance was accompanied by memorable shakes of the shoulders. Review: Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance, a Showcase of Dizzying Movement 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z For decades, Sofiya was cast as the Tolstoy-family villain, a jealous, greedy woman who denied her husband his destiny as an ascetic and a prophet. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z In one of these Henry has upped sticks to join an ascetic community in Israel, renamed himself Hanoch and become "a real Jew". Ten of the best religious zealots in literature 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z There is something elemental, ascetic about the lecture and the way it strips performance to its simplest constituent forms — a speaker, an audience, a stool if you’re feeling fancy. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z She likes to set herself apart from the cookie-cutter Californian starlets by wearing cool, slightly ascetic pieces. What will the stars be wearing on the red carpet? 2011-01-11T20:36:34Z Though some more ascetic meditation retreats ban fragrances, even going as far as suggesting unscented laundry detergent and rustly fabrics, Ms. Gragg also likes to dab on a little scented essential oil before her practice. The New Mantra: Replacing ‘Om’ With ‘Glam’ 2013-01-09T22:24:20Z He is unmarried and lives what many call an ascetic life completely devoted to the program. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z The movie begins with Nina choking down an ascetic breakfast: one grapefruit. For Dancers, ?Black Swan? Is a Cautionary Tale 2011-01-07T21:13:52Z I call this an ascetic stance, and he’s not sure about that, says he has never thought about himself in that way. Joseph Fiennes: ‘I’ve done my bit for society – I’ve illustrated the patheticness of misogyny’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Some 15 years later, that ethic continues to define Samson’s practice, which he approaches with an almost ascetic intensity. An Artist Who Doesn’t Want to Feed Western Fantasies About Africa 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z One needn’t be an ascetic to appreciate the relative simplicity of the high-ceilinged, sparsely decorated room, with its nature-evoking color schemes of brown, tan and onyx. Check In : Hotel Review: Lumeria Maui 2014-01-28T20:56:07Z “Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich,” by the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is a remarkable work, adopting the methods of American Minimalism while swerving away from its ascetic tone. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Reprises Her ‘Fase’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Atop the barren ledges are several hermit cells made of stacked rocks where, as early as the 300s, ascetics lived in extreme deprivation. The Austere Beauty of Egypt’s Long-Distance Hiking Trails 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z But the opening chorale was delivered with ascetic concentration and the middle movement with engaging simplicity. Music Review: Midori and Ozgur Aydin at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-08T22:40:51Z “Painting With” is relatively ascetic amid Animal Collective’s catalog, but onstage its momentum was all that mattered. Review: Animal Collective, in Joyful Pursuit of Sensory Overload 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z And so a woman wears a marbled dress, an elephant fights with a horse against a dramatically marbled backdrop and a religious ascetic rides an emaciated marbled horse. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But to me and many others, the discomforts are a barely distinguishable blip — and, dare I say, often an ascetic pleasure — in an otherwise rapturous experience. In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z If the series is to be believed, we would like young women not merely to get their financial lives in order but to enter an enlightened state of ascetic living. Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Sometimes their actions seemed entirely ascetic and inwardly focused. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago: great dancers, mixed double bill 2013-02-11T17:29:35Z The yoga community can feel intimidating – bodies contorted for aspirational Instagram posts, or studios where you are pushed uncomfortably deep into poses – but Adriene has positioned herself in opposition to the unrealistically ascetic side. 'The people’s yogi': how Adriene Mishler became a YouTube phenomenon 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z For unclear reasons, she stopped composing in 1991 and spent the last 15 years of her life living an ascetic, monastic life. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He may be a practicing ascetic, but he will be forced to confront anew his human vulnerability. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z Ms. Celmins, 78, keeps a clipping of the ascetic abstractionist Ad Reinhardt’s 12 rules for painting, one of which is to avoid form at all costs. The Artist Vija Celmins Conjures Sea and Sky With a Brush 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It may seem odd that an order as pious and ascetic as the Carthusians relies on making premium booze to survive. Chartreuse liqueur’s popularity has soared. But how do you market the elixir without offending the monks who make it? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Closer still is the magnificent basilica of St Simeon Stylites, the ascetic who lived for years on top of a 12m column, the remains of which lie in the centre of the site. Letters: Syria – destination for tourism and torture 2012-07-08T20:00:11Z Yektai left sections of blank canvas to either side of his figure, and even the paint itself, unvarnished and scraped energetically across the surface, feels strangely ascetic. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The mood of the left for a long time now has been that of some emaciated hunger artist, determined to confront the people with a desperate ascetic vision. Franz Kafka's election guide 2010-04-08T09:15:00Z This focus on discipline and inner strength has surely influenced his approach to his work — single-minded, ascetic — and the controlled nature of the pieces themselves. Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z At root this idea is akin to the ascetic glorification of pain and suffering. From the archive, 7 June 1907: Editorial on George Bernard Shaw's remarks on poverty 2012-06-07T06:35:00Z In the second part of the book Clark does take up many of the famous themes from Nietzsche: The will to power, eternal recurrence, the ascetic ideal, and so on. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z The Will, he believed, could be temporarily nullified through ascetic practices and the contemplation of art, especially music. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Malouf is a classical Arabic music style, ascetic and finely detailed: unharmonized melodic lines that are shared and traded by the singer and instruments, accompanied by sparse percussion. Music Review: Sonia M’barek at the French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-07T21:13:40Z It adheres to the rigors of early music performance practice with the ascetic formality of a Noh troupe. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Ms Yanagihara draws the reader into the friends’ world, writing in a clean, realist voice that is ascetic in tone and withholding of information. Friend in need 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “The abstractionist Carmen Herrera produces minimal but eloquent paintings whose strength comes from their intense fusions of color and ascetic form,” she wrote. Carmen Herrera, Cuban-Born Artist Who Won Fame at 89, Dies at 106 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Aged 32, and with the deep-set eyes and ascetic gaze of an El Greco saint, he brings a subtle wit and apparently boneless fluidity to everything he performs. Rambert New Choreography 2012 – review 2012-06-02T23:05:56Z She depicts them as tonsured monks, “ascetic and contemplative,” working on the book together, Taylor helping Bechdel with the color. Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Some were inspired to imitate his ascetic habits. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z Sleeping on a bed of nails is historically associated with ascetic Hindu holy men, who sleep up poles and walk on coals. Can a bed of nails really relieve stress and insomnia - or just make me squeal? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Chunks of albacore tuna mixed with dollops of mayonnaise and plenty of salt is an easy-to-love foil to the ascetic brown rice. Japanese Snacks Inspired by Mom’s at Rice & Miso 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z I would like to somewhat dispel this impression that she was some ascetic saint of the desert. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque are widely regarded as 20th-century art's equivalent of atonal music: incredibly difficult, offering rewards that are in their nature ascetic and remote from everyday life. The joy of cubism 2010-04-26T10:18:00Z He said his mother was ascetic and withdrawn. C.K. Williams, whose conversational poetry drew praise, dies at 78 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The final return to the opening theme, bringing the piece full circle, took on an almost ascetic purity. Goldberg Variations/Fretwork ? review 2011-03-08T18:30:37Z Agnes fits right in with the thinkers, ascetics, crusaders and seekers who have populated Gordon’s fiction and nonfiction — books about Joan of Arc, Thomas Merton and Jesus. What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z But don’t think yourself an ascetic for savoring such simple things, Graves added. Personal Journeys: A Case for Getting Far, Far Away 2013-05-16T17:46:20Z Bartleby taught us to look for resistance in forms of ascetic refusal; Amelia Bedelia turns passive aggression into a kind of art. The Secret Rebellion of Amelia Bedelia, the Bartleby of Domestic Work 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z “I don’t always drink alcohol, despite my reputation. I live for life and living makes me drunk. I’m totally ascetic at the moment.” Gérard Depardieu: 'What people know is that I pissed on a plane' 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Except for intellectual ascetics, we all watch TV. Perspective | I’m signing off as TV critic, but here are six shows I’d happily watch again 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z We started video chatting for hours every night — he from an ascetic all-white bedroom, me from the cupcake-print corner of my studio apartment. Modern Love: Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us 2011-04-28T23:32:19Z The central cathedral, a fortress of ascetic Franciscan architecture, is standing room only on Sunday evenings. Next Stop: Valladolid, Mexico, a City of Yucatán Cool 2012-11-30T20:09:44Z And Céline and its imitators bring a rigor and restraint that is as ascetic as it is eloquent. Women’s power dressing enters the enlightened era Darragh Kennan is splendid here as an ascetic, brilliantly strategic Caesar. Seattle Shakes' 'Antony and Cleopatra' a full-scale telling of fascinating classic 2012-11-06T00:15:09Z The play seems minor because it’s better at instruction than revelation; Timon’s ascetic exile in the forest, under a looming leafless tree, portrays her as wiser, and sadder. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z There is evidence that religious ascetics were wandering North India as early as the fifth century B.C., practicing meditation and breath control in pursuit of mind-over-matter transcendence. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z “Chasing waves in a dedicated way was both profoundly egocentric and selfless, dynamic and ascetic,” he writes, “radical in its rejection of the values of duty and conventional achievement.” Review: ‘Barbarian Days,’ by William Finnegan, Details a Surfer’s Pilgrimage 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z O'Connor lived a private, ascetic life, dying relatively young and unmarried. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z Their spindly leaves are dotted with fuzzy little nubs called trichomes, which absorb moisture, and, given their ascetic transcendence of nutrients, that’s practically all they need. The Alien Minimalism of Air Plants 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The renunciation of the professional virtuoso’s career is both a kind of pleasure—a freedom from the pain that it caused him—and an ascetic devotion to a higher ideal. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z By comparison, the story “Hands” is on its surface about a monk in the Babylonian desert trying to prove his ascetic devotion to Jesus by cutting off his hands. The Angst of the Creative Millennial, as Fodder for Satire 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s certainly not down to his ascetic discipline. Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It was pensive and haunted: ascetic but by no means simple. Music Review | Gilberto Gil: At the Nokia Theater, Complex Colors in Simple Settings 2010-03-13T01:40:00Z This ascetic style's material effect is that the stories' meaning often lies hidden deep within the words, or even in the spaces between them. A brief survey of the short story part 34: Ernest Hemingway 2011-07-15T10:54:43Z Suddenly the leftists weren’t ascetics anymore; they were hedonists. ‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’ Review: Can There Be a ‘Decent’ Left? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z But people will always want to express themselves through their attire, whether to declare themselves rebels, artists or ascetics. Perspective | Fashion Week celebrated what it means to dream — culminating in this one moving Marc Jacobs moment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In “Fire on the Beach,” Faladé describes Wild’s flowing hair and “piercing eyes — reminiscent of John Brown’s ascetic’s glare.” A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Gumprecht Weiss — we learn his name later on — had once been a voluptuary but in middle age now prefers an ascetic, philosophical life. Book review: Metaphysical novella ‘The Creator’ by Mynona blurs the boundary between dream and reality 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Somehow, he is both an ascetic and a sensualist, highly disciplined and completely irresponsible. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z His personal life is so understated and ascetic as to seem anonymous. Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham 2010-03-23T18:39:00Z His eyebrows seemingly shaved and face often obscured by a scarf, Saul presents a curious figure, one who’s at once an artist, ninja and religious ascetic. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Reacher is a wild card, a highly decorated warrior once employed as a brilliant internal investigator, who has now quit the army and disappeared off the map, living a mysterious and somewhat ascetic life. Jack Reacher – review 2012-12-20T15:29:01Z The Black Keys don't sound remotely stripped-down any more, but they too once cleaved to this ascetic no-bass sound. Deap Vally: Sistrionix – review 2013-06-22T23:05:06Z Strong arguments can be made on both sides of this debate, and the sheer volume of opinions on the topic has become noticeable even to Ohtani, whose ascetic lifestyle usually limits distractions. Shohei Ohtani’s future is still uncertain as the Angels ponder a momentous decision 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Modi, a Hindu nationalist, casts himself as an ascetic who adheres to his religion’s strictures on vegetarianism and yoga. Modi to start US visit with yoga on the UN lawn, a savvy and symbolic choice for India’s leader 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z "People live like ascetics for 10 years or more to educate themselves well," wrote another Zhihu user. Kong Yiji: The memes that lay bare China's youth disillusionment 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z An estimated 30,000 people of Doukhobor descent reside in Canada, and for decades they lived ascetic, communal lives reminiscent of the Quakers or Mennonites, though suffused with Russian culture and traditions. A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Instead, groups of ascetics came together in communities called monasteries. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Carolingian reformers took inspiration from the monks of Ireland, who brought with them both their ascetic style of religious practice and their handsomely copied books of classical literature. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z His emaciated face and worn clothes give him an ascetic look. The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the Most 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z To those saying that the child is turning ascetic "out of her own free will", Prof Mehta points out that "a child's consent is not consent in law". Why an eight-year-old Indian diamond heiress became a nun 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z They were ascetic Midwesterners, simple in their garb, scientific in their outlook. Perspective | In 1910, an English aviator set his plane down next to the White House 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z St. Simeon Stylites the Elder: In the 5th century, this Syrian ascetic climbed up a pillar with a tiny home on top of it. Column: Hey, L.A. politicians — I know just the patron saint for you 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Many ascetics played a leading role in their communities, sometimes extending beyond the realm of civil behavior. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A short, laconic 43-year-old with the air of an ascetic, he punctuates his sentences with long silences while keeping an eye on the hundreds of bubbling chainaks arrayed on the coal stove before him. Taste-fest in a teapot: In crisis-hit Kabul, a master chef and the meaty dish he loves endure 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Another girl who had become an ascetic at nine caused a scandal of sorts in 2009 after she turned 21 and eloped and married her boyfriend. Why an eight-year-old Indian diamond heiress became a nun 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The Hindus suggest that the answer lies in purification, with ascetic rituals provided as means to achieve freedom from the cycle of reincarnation. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Billingsley developed a methodical approach to diving, an athletic form that Sports Illustrated described in 1966 as “an ascetic, artistic pursuit that is ridden with classical precepts and fixed ideas.” Hobie Billingsley, celebrated diving coach, dies at 95 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z For example, Late Antiquity witnessed a surge in violence carried out by ascetic monks against nonbelievers in cities of the empire, in an effort to preserve a sort of “pure” Christianity. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But they’re equally famous because of how uncomfortable many find them, almost like an endurance test, the way ascetics lie on beds of nails. Adidas slides are the world's most uncomfortable sandals that refuse to die 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z He grew religious in middle age, appearing on screen in a skullcap until finally withdrawing from popular culture for an ascetic life of biblical scholarship in Jerusalem. Uri Zohar, avant garde Israeli director turned rabbi, dies 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Such ascetic Jains must take the greatest possible care not to cause harm, intentionally or unintentionally, to any creature, including insects, plants, and microbes. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Rabbi Kanievsky’s insular and ascetic life led to frequent questions from secular Israelis about the extent to which he understood the world on which he pronounced. Revered Jewish Sage Buried in One of the Largest Gatherings in Israel’s History 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z These ascetics attracted followers, and as a result monasteries and hermitages flourished in less hospitable areas. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Many of them will stay on the banks of the Ganges for a month leading the life of an ascetic, with the belief they will receive salvation. Thousands gather at Hindu festival in India as virus surges 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z In director Scott Nolte’s staging, the plates are bare, the food imaginary and the dramatic stakes of a community of ascetics who’ve resolved to take no pleasure in the lavish meal are similarly missing. Review: ‘Babette’s Feast’ marks Taproot Theatre’s return to live performances 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z They derive their wisdom, in part, from spiritual forces, but also from tapas, or the meditative, ascetic, and spiritual practices they perform to gain control over their bodies and minds. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Military Academy graduate who rose through the ranks while winning academic fellowships and gaining a reputation as an ascetic, eating just one meal a day. Corporate boards, consulting, speaking fees: How U.S. generals thrived after Afghanistan 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Monasteries that housed groups devoted to the ascetic life spread across the empire, usually in remote locations and often in the desert. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious, frugal and ascetic in the White House. Review | Jimmy Carter’s missing ingredient: Presidential charisma 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z At 15, he enrolled in the local junior seminary, where he lived an ascetic life full of prayer. A Latin Expert’s Odyssey, From the Vatican to the Gay Rights Movement 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z She was a devoted ascetic and is said to have composed 10 of the hymns in the Rig Veda. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The Carmelite nuns are a cloistered and ascetic order, living largely in silence. The US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The priests, the seers and the ascetics are among the party's biggest supporters and play an important role in mobilising Hindu votes during elections. India Covid: Kumbh Mela pilgrims turn into super-spreaders 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z The Kumbh Mela — named after a vessel containing divine nectar — is a vast festival that rotates among four locations, drawing multitudes of Hindu ascetics, ordinary devotees, celebrities, tourists and even royalty. In India’s surge, a religious gathering attended by millions helped the virus spread 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Luna’s ascetic attitude is also reflected in a disdain for excess and redundancy, said Carlos Marun, a Brazilian congressman who sits on Itaipu’s board. At Brazil's Petrobras, a 'Spartan' military man takes the reins 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Hindu ascetics known as Naga sadhus, many naked apart from a coating of ash and carrying swords or tridents, led the bathers at the Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, in the northern town of Haridwar. Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees take holy plunge in Ganges 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z An ascetic cleric of almost mythical stature among millions of Shi’ite followers, Sistani intervened at critical junctures as Iraq lurched from one crisis to another. Pope Francis holds historic meeting with Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z The Arkansas Democrat, an ascetic grind who shepherded Medicare and other influential legislation through Congress, was also widely regarded as the most powerful man in government after the president. Fanne Foxe, ‘Argentine Firecracker’ at center of D.C. sex scandal, dies at 84 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z They’ve just been walled in, closed off, “like those anchorites” — medieval ascetics — “who used to build themselves into the walls of churches and see insane, terrifying visions and write about them.” Emerald Fennell’s Dark, Jaded, Funny, Furious Fables of Female Revenge 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Focusing the mind, toning up, sweating out the “toxins”: ascetic. The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z They do not sell merch, only music, and at low prices, too: a socialist and ascetic stance in a corporate US. $5 gigs, not $10m deals: the story of US punk label Dischord Records 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Even an ascetic approach may not save you. Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z And you don’t have to be a critic to see the strength of Zumthor’s ascetic exactitude. Op-Ed: LACMA's redesign doesn't deserve this much carping 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Trump initially saw Mattis as a man in his own image — awarding him the Trumpian nickname “Mad Dog,” even though the ascetic Mattis was closer to a monk than a mongrel. Opinion | Trump’s bad marriage with the military has finally exploded 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z It was the final year of the freewheeling 1970s, and his adventurous Francophone mother and ascetic Anglophone father were strangers in a sprawling hockey arena. The Man Striving to Be the ‘Canadian Obama’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The necessary training regimen keeps him uncommonly busy, but Ohtani embraces it with the ascetic mentality that got him to elite levels in Japan and North America. Determined Ohtani charging back into 2-way role for Angels 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z As such, the public areas downstairs are decidedly ascetic, as were rural homes of the era. A Farmhouse Fantasy Tucked in the Woods of Upstate New York 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Where Minimalism had exercised ascetic levels of restraint, Pattern and Decoration, known as P&D, went for the jugular of ebullience. A story of art that is also a story of feminism and female friendship 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Low’s 1999 Christmas EP – released as a “gift” to fans – was one of the most unexpected seasonal delights: ascetic indie band embracing the season without irony. The 50 greatest Christmas songs – ranked! 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z While the Congress leaders often behaved as if they were entitled to rule, the B.J.P.’s leaders presented themselves as ascetic, committed, and incorruptible. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z His growing fame brings admirers to his freezing workshop, where they wonder at his ascetic indifference to discomfort, and still more — gifted as he surely is — at his capacity for self-criticism. Can a Woman Who Is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Whether you seek a retreat into ascetic silence or anonymity, or the passionate thrill of nightlife – anything is possible here. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Per reflects that he is at home neither among ascetic Christians—the piety of the Sideniuses—nor among “the children of the world”: the luxury of the Salomons. A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Between his final meeting with Wagner, in 1876, and his mental collapse of 1889, Nietzsche lived the life of an intellectual ascetic. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z You refer, in your latest column, to Modi as “measured, ascetic, not driven by impulse.” The Times Columnist Roger Cohen on the Future of India 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z One gets the sense that many public health experts think that ex-smokers should atone with ascetic self-denial, rather than a pleasurable substitute. Opinion | A vaping ban would be hysteria masquerading as prudence 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The almost ascetic simplicity of classical kaiseki can be a cultural barrier; diners here “might feel like they’re eating nothing,” he says. The New Generation of Chefs Pushing Japanese Food in Unexpected Directions 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z His father is a pastor with an ascetic hatred of the body. A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Remote, calculating, ascetic and cerebral, a self-styled revolutionary inspired by what he once called “Marxist-Leninism-Mao-Tse-tung thought,” he affected a scholarly manner, bespectacled and haughty, a vestige of his early years as a schoolteacher. Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z She set a precedent for attention-craving ascetics such as St Simeon Stylites, who lived for 37 years on top of a pillar near Aleppo and was the subject of Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert. From bombs to Benidorm: how fascism disfigured the face of Spain 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Magazine profiles followed and established Epstein’s reputation as a stealthy yet exorbitantly successful money man with a gilded social circle and as somewhat ascetic streak. Source: Jeffrey Epstein dies by suicide while awaiting trial 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The pilgrims, many of them barefooted ascetics, chant hymns and ring bells as they travel through forested areas in Kashmir’s Himalayas. India promotes Hindu pilgrimage as sign of peace in Kashmir 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z For my generation, this became the icon of “Beckettian”, the adjective that conjures the solitary artist, part seer, part hermit: ascetic, angular, and reclusive. Another side of Samuel Beckett 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z "Previously the ascetics were more introverted and interested only in their own self-purification," he says. Why are these youngsters renouncing the world? 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z The pilgrims, many of them barefooted ascetics, chanted hymns as they traveled through forested areas up in Kashmir’s Himalayas on Monday. Hindu pilgrimage begins amid high security in Indian Kashmir 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The ascetic sophistication of a life-size figure of a meditating St. Francis inside a lonely cell, clutching a skull to his breast, by Francisco de Zurbarán? Review: 3 Velázquez paintings alone are reason to go, now, to this San Diego show 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The businessman Alain Minc reportedly counselled Macron to go into finance, saying, “To do politics today, you have to be rich or ascetic.” Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Saffron is the color worn by Hindu ascetics as well as the color of the BJP. Meet one of India’s most divisive new legislators: A Hindu nun charged with terrorism 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Many Muslims are also spooked by the win of a Hindu ascetic accused of plotting a bomb attack on Muslims. Let Hindus build their temple at razed mosque site, some Indian... 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Admission to the most élite colleges is widely perceived as a ticket to success, not to membership in an ascetic cadre of Platonic public servants. Jefferson, Adams, and the SAT’s New Adversity Factor 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Through it all, in the minds of many Australians, he was one of them: a leader just as comfortable with wine-sipping elites as beer-chugging farmers and ascetic environmentalists. Australia Longs for Bolder Politics as Beloved Leader Dies on Election’s Eve 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z He said the word “things” with ascetic disdain. Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life Into Comedy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Poland, recorded live in Warsaw, was suitably icy and ascetic, but filled with hope, too. The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked! 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z She sets the terms of her hijab, appearing as ascetic or as appealing as she wishes. Opinion | There are two types of hijabs. The difference is huge. 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “I chose abstinence over indulgence,” he says, and Pattinson is so fiercely ascetic in the role that, were it not for Monte’s gentleness toward Willow, you might mistake him for an android stowaway. Flesh Meets Machine in “High Life” 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “I admire Gandhi and want to live an ascetic life like him.” The Internet was obsessed with this philosophy-quoting homeless man in China. Now he’s fled the fame. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z In a new Bollywood epic, the hero leaves home as a young man to assume an ascetic life in the wilderness. India’s Narendra Modi, battling for reelection, gets a questionable Bollywood boost 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Sadhus - or ascetics - often draw most attention at the festival. Finding your soulmate in the world’s biggest crowd 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The backdrop to the killing is the tug-of-war among variants of Sunni Islam: the ascetic Wahhabis, the activist Muslim Brotherhood, and the statist neo-Ottomans, each competing for leadership. The Middle East’s Great Divide Is Not Sectarianism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Traditionally, ascetics like Mr. Prayagrajgiri, known as sadhus, were the primary attraction at the festival, setting up tents to greet the faithful. At the World’s Largest Religious Gathering, Nirvana and ‘Glamping’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z One notable absence: naga sadhus, the ash-smeared Hindu ascetics — the onetime-armed defenders of the faith — naked except for prayer beads and garlands of marigolds who lead the akharas’ procession on royal bathing days. Noted Indian transgender activist shakes up Hindu festival 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Some were “still in uniform, some barefoot or in sandals, some with the long beards of artists or ascetics”. Bauhaus at 100: the revolutionary movement's enduring appeal 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Last Sunday a parade of Hindu ascetics on elephants and camels passed billboards advertising matrimonial websites and the Kumbh’s free wifi. Kumbh Mela: Hindus converge for largest-ever human gathering 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The biggest draw at the festival are the Naga sadhus - the naked ash-smeared ascetics who arrive in massive colourful processions. Millions of Indians set for holy dip 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Our conversation is constantly interrupted by his ringing cell phone, staff bringing him papers to sign, and saffron-robed ascetics barging in through the door to speak to him. How to plan the world's biggest gathering 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Along the way, he experiences the extremes of deprivation, as an ascetic, wandering monk, and of satiety, as the wealthy lover of the beautiful courtesan Kamala. Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Presidents are supposed to set an example of ascetic bravery and stoicism in the face of ceaseless and often negative reporting. After terror comes the media BS: No, lazy pundits, “both sides” don’t do this 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Ohtani’s patient, almost ascetic approach to baseball has been evident ever since he agreed to join the Angels last winter. Ohtani still slugging in the final days of a remarkable year 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Some of those who come out to their families are forced to take medication, shock therapy or fake cures peddled by quack doctors and ascetics. As India awaits a historic gay rights ruling, a city holds its first pride march 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He is something like a comedy ascetic, demanding a purity that temporal jokes cannot achieve. Norm Macdonald, Still in Search of the Perfect Joke 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z In an interview for “Medicine Man,” a forthcoming documentary, former RAM executive director Karen Wilson said Mr. Brock’s ascetic lifestyle was driven entirely by his work for the organization. Stan Brock, Amazon adventurer who became a health-care crusader, dies at 82 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Seen now, they hint, startlingly, at a hidden, inner passion, a wildness at odds with the disciplined, even ascetic, existence for which he later became known. Before He Was a Photographer, Bill Cunningham Was a Hat Maker 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z In a country that is 90 percent Buddhist, Thai monks are revered as ascetics, dedicated to aiding laypeople on their paths toward enlightenment. In Thailand, ‘Obesity in Our Monks Is a Ticking Time Bomb’ 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z But if you’re an Aphex Twin fan, this seems positively ascetic in its simplicity: the Cornish producer sends his fans down labyrinthine rabbit holes full of clues and in-jokes. Blimps, runes and latte mummies: how Aphex Twin keeps fans guessing 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z But Ramdev’s operation is a far cry from the ascetic ashrams of yesteryear. The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Van der Post was the daughter of the explorer and conservationist Laurens van der Post, best known for celebrating the ascetic lives of African Bushmen. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z As her slight frame folded into the capacious velvet booth, her large brown eyes attentive but tired, she looked again like the ascetic I’d expected. Adrian Piper’s Show at MoMA is the Largest Ever for a Living Artist. Why Hasn’t She Seen It? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z As Diarmaid MacCulloch explained in his fascinating study of the history of silence in Christian thought, silence isn’t just the profound silence of the desert ascetic at one with his God. Is it time to give the overworked one-minute’s silence a rest? | Giles Fraser 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z With his cragged forehead, rakelike frame and ascetic brush-cut, Hawke aptly embodies the latter, as Toller is revealed to be a man grappling with doubt, hopelessness and a crushing sense of guilt. Review | This new movie gets right everything that ‘Mother!’ got wrong 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The couple were divorced four years later, and Roth retreated to pursue an ascetic existence away from the distractions of fame in a Connecticut farmhouse. Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral author dies aged 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Buddhist priests denounce the excess surrounding a festival commemorating a man who shunned his family fortune for an ascetic life, saying the waste around Vesak has become too much. How to Celebrate the World’s Best-Known Ascetic? Stop Partying, Some Say 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z One has glasses to show his lack of vision, the other is a long-bearded ascetic seeking knowledge. Revolutionary Rodin and Tahiti before Gauguin – the week in art 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z An ascetic who rises early to exercise, Khama seems to care more for the facts than flattery. This former African president stands out — and not just because he once crashed an air force plane 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z He works a second job as an emergency doctor and sticks to an ascetic lifestyle — old car, low rent and almost no vacations — to save his money and time for the research. Tenacious new gun researchers are determined to break cycle of mass shootings 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z An ascetic, one-eyed cleric and inspirational force, Omar had been dead for nearly two years when in 2015 the Taliban finally acknowledged his passing. A Dubai shopping trip and a missed chance to capture the head of the Taliban 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Luckily, there is an endless stream of articles dissecting the ascetic lifestyles of the rich and famous to provide plenty of counsel on this matter. Hacking my body clock by getting up at 4am changed my life – for the worse | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z He apprenticed with Lucien Lelong and Elsa Schiaparelli, but his greatest influence was fashion’s most famous ascetic Cristobal Balenciaga, who was both a mentor and friend. Perspective | What Givenchy knew before the rest of us about the power of a little black dress 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z He could careen from the tragic to the comic, the carnal to the ascetic – later, at dinner, while wolfing down four steaks, he told me he fasted every Monday and Thursday. The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s angry young men 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Habitat staff recall how the company culture changed gradually from one of style and sensuality to Ikea’s ascetic standards. Ingvar Kamprad obituary 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z His income from his writing was small, but he led an ascetic life and had few expenses. Murder in Hampstead: did a secret trial put the wrong man in jail? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Like a wise ascetic, he was scrutinizing us, two skinny creatures holding hands. ‘Penny for Your Thoughts’ 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z In private, though, he acknowledged that the ascetic life he led was not for everyone. The complicated legacy of Rabbi Shteinman, who has died aged 104 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z They live an ascetic lifestyle, eating specific foods like almond milkshakes and chapattis slathered with ghee. Ancient wrestling offers a future for some in modern India 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z They shared a love of language, libraries and ascetic living, and they eventually settled in a farmhouse in rural Hampshire. Iona Opie, scholarly explorer of the lore and customs of childhood, dies at 94 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z I don’t regret a moment of my weekend vacation, and I’m not about to propose some ascetic tech-free alternative either. It’s now impossible to live your best life without subsidizing Silicon Valley 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The ascetic, asthmatic Argentine doctor first fought alongside Fidel Castro in the mountains of Cuba’s Sierra Maestra. Time to bury Che Guevara for good 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z His style—ascetic and almost monkish, as an acquaintance puts it—differs sharply from that of his compatriot. The bosses of two famous French firms struggle to keep customers 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The monastic calling is to cultivate ascetic practices that help direct all of the soul’s desire towards God. Pity poor Prince George – discouraged from having a best friend at school | Mark Vernon 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump waded into the debate on Thursday, tweeting that the controversial monuments are "beautiful" and bemoaning that their ascetic beauty will be "greatly missed" from cities. Why the fuss over Confederate statues? - BBC News 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z He is often derided as an ascetic crank, pond scum, or inversely, revered as a back-to-nature saint. Henry David Thoreau, a new biography 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Yogi, as everyone calls him, is so ascetic and incorruptible that he doesn’t use air-conditioners, they say. Head of Far-Right Hindu Temple Ascends India’s Political Ladder 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The pilgrims, who include families, businessmen and barefoot ascetics, depart from a base camp near Botengoo for a 19-mile journey to a spot that is about 10,000 feet above sea level. Gunmen Kill 7 Hindu Pilgrims in Kashmir Attack 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z It marked the opening move in Fadhil’s almost ascetic brand of combat, one dictated by numbers and audio broadcasts, and where the sounds of war would only occasionally intrude. For Iraqi soldiers coordinating coalition strikes on Islamic State, it's a different kind of war 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Yet they are also very different: Mr. Modi is a deeply religious ascetic who often fasts and points to his lack of family as proof of his commitment to India and resistance to corruption. Trump Meets India’s Leader, a Fellow Nationalist Battling China for His Favor 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Yoga in India was first practised only by religious ascetics, and clear references to it can be found in texts from 2,500 years ago, Dr Mallinson says. Yoga: How did it conquer the world and what's changed? - BBC News 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The same dictionary defines yoga as “a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.” What’s the difference between yoga and pilates? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Monks in especially ascetic sects of buddhism attempted self-mummification for different ideological reasons, but the end goal was to die of starvation and remain preserved for eternity. Here are the ways to make a mummy that Tom Cruise doesn't tell you about 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Born in Corbridge in Northumberland, Brown soon demonstrated an ascetic streak. How old-fashioned shadow play has helped Antonio Conte light up Chelsea | Jonathan Wilson 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z In addition to his amazing dribbling ability, he was never booked and lived an ascetic life. The Stanley Matthews football revolution made in Ghana - BBC News 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z They sound like an ascetic’s vow to renounce the self’s happiness for a higher cause. The Art and Activism of Grace Paley 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z In the late 19th century, a Russian Orthodox ascetic named Nikolai Fedorov was inspired by Darwinism to argue that humans could direct their own evolution to bring about the resurrection. God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But not wanting to seem like a pretentious ascetic, I didn’t mention my resolution. Perspective | I gave up TV, then qualified for Olympic marathon trials and got my PhD 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z He leads an ascetic life, split between office and home, where he lives with his wife, and is “the most welcoming, naive, modest person.” ‘Wavelet revolution’ pioneer scoops top maths award 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z There have been hermits – also known as recluses, monks, misanthropes, ascetics, anchorites, swamis – at all times in recorded history, across all cultures. Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years | Michael Finkel 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z An Aghori ascetic, who at one point also threatens to decapitate Aslan for “talking so much”, also feeds the presenter who he claims is a piece of human brain. Reza Aslan criticised for documentary on cannibalistic Hindus 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z By the time Longstreth moved to Brooklyn, he was something of a minor legend in indie-rock circles: ascetic, eccentric and respected for it. The Dirty Projectors Go Solo 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z He is described as ascetic, highly disciplined and unfazed by the prospect of violence. Hamas elects hardliner Yahya Sinwar as its Gaza Strip chief 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z He was accompanied by an exceptionally tall and willowy young man with long, center-parted black hair and wide, ascetic eyes. 600 Miles in a Coffin-Shaped Bus, Campaigning Against Death Itself 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z This is not to suggest she lived the life of a do-gooding ascetic. Meet the Woman Who Gave Away the McDonald's Founder's Fortune 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z And, of course, as with Donne, when you start to look a little closer, you find that the amorous and the ascetic, the profane and the sacred, Eros and Thanatos have been intimately bound throughout. Leonard Cohen is John Donne to Bob Dylan's Shakespeare 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z If his fans were captivated by Cohen’s career dramas, they were also intrigued by the dichotomy he presented in his personal life—sophisticated ladies’ man and ascetic Zen Buddhist. Leonard Cohen dies at 82, singer-songwriter of 'Hallelujah' had a literary sensibility 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Throughout the day, local TV stations aired nothing but royal footage highlighting the King’s ascetic public life—the irrigation projects he inspected or the farms he promoted through rural-development schemes. A Tense Thailand Mourns Its King—and Fears for Its Future 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z He was a transhumanist ascetic, a young man who had largely withdrawn from the world so that he might never have to leave it. 600 Miles in a Coffin-Shaped Bus, Campaigning Against Death Itself 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Although the king’s personal habits, often bordering on the ascetic, were viewed by many Thais as beyond reproach, his family life was at times rocky. Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand dies at 88; world’s longest-reigning monarch 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z His attendants at the royal palace worked hard to portray him as a Dhammaraja, or holy king, an ascetic Buddhist ruler whose sole priority was the uplift of his people. After Thai King’s Death, Crown Prince Has a Hard Act to Follow 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z As a wandering ascetic, Majnun composes verses to her and eventually learns of her illness and death. Mark Morris dancers, Silk Road Ensemble join in classic love story 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Bookish and ascetic, aesthetically and stylistically he owes more to Labour’s methodist wing than to its union origins. Jeremy Corbyn: ‘People say I should be tougher. But it’s not my style’ 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z So-called forest monks who observe strict ascetic practices known as dhutanga are said to meditate while walking for weeks without ever lying down, even to sleep. Corpses, Pythons, Sleep Deprivation: Meditation Rituals in Thailand Can Be Intense 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Where he was sensuous and sovereign, she is shy and almost ascetic, scornful of extravagant display. Werner Herzog, Internet Explorer 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The city’s labyrinthine alleys are crowded with beggars, widows, and ragged ascetics, corpse bearers and the terminally ill, cows, dogs, monkeys, and motorbikes. What It Takes to Clean the Ganges 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z At a time when fashion influencers regularly receive free airfare, free clothes, free hotels, Cunningham was a journalistic ascetic. What Bill Cunningham taught us about ethical journalism 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z With his hollow cheeks and ascetic air, Pekerman fitted perfectly the Argentinian ideal of the coach as intellectual. Colombia v Chile: a compelling clash of theories as Argentinian coaches do battle 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The remote places celebrated in these photographs reflect, I think, a taste for the austere, ascetic and windswept forms of those years. Do writers’ photographs show a side of their character not revealed in their books? 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z And it’s in these scenes that McGregor convincingly portrays both the prayerful existence of an ascetic and its laceratingly sharp-eyed opposite. ‘Last Days in the Desert’ delivers a double portrait of Jesus and the devil within 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z For some ascetics, my translator added, it involved climbing into a ditch and burying oneself alive. What It Takes to Clean the Ganges 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Four-star officers sometimes describe him as the “warrior monk” because of his intense, ascetic manner. Five military leaders Republicans could draft for a run for president. (Hint: It worked before.) 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Beneath his glamour, Howe was an earnest man, an ascetic given to radical politics. The woman reformer who gave us “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z To all but the most ascetic among us, it is important to some degree what others think about our choice of gadgets, car, décor or clothing. Make recycled goods covetable 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Their ascetic, ritual-driven reclusiveness, overseen by a nun, wasn't chosen by them — it's a purgatory of sorts imposed on them by the Church for alleged sins. 'The Club' is an offbeat look at the lives of disgraced priests 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “Yes,” he says, “it’s a bit like Christian ascetics constantly reminding themselves of the sins of the past.” Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The early Christian ascetics overthrew the classical concept of the good diet. Resolved to Lose Weight in ’16? Join a Venerable Club 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z We were offered potato chips and chocolate and pillows and we refused them all, feeling heroically ascetic. How to Feel Like a Castaway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z While his predecessor was known for his ascetic lifestyle, Mansoor is viewed as a pragmatist – some would say opportunist. Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor wounded in gunfight, says Kabul 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z He was an ascetic drawn to mysticism who built the world's preeminent consumer-products company. Innovation: A binary life : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z They lived as ascetics and refused to do the slightest harm to anyone, so they were called “perfects.” Cursed: Take A Journey to the Scary Side of Geography 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z “Eyelids” follows an old man living a monk-like ascetic life on an island. Asian cinema masterpieces, ferry tragedy at Korean film fest 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z "Eyelids" follows an old man living a monk-like ascetic life on an island. Asian cinema masterpieces, ferry tragedy and more at South Korean film festival 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Wholly contemporary garments were created using the skills and resources of a brand whose founder epitomized the rigors of couture with the ascetic devotion of a monk. Alexander Wang says goodbye to Balenciaga joyfully, with clothes to costume your true-life adventures 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z “Tort law is being run into the ground, maligned, caricatured and slandered because it’s effective,” said Mr. Nader, still the ascetic reformer who seems to sleep in a suit and tie. Ralph Nader’s Tort Law Museum Seeks to Keep His Crusade Evergreen 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z But it was not surprising: he was an aesthete, not an ascetic. The day Brian Sewell picked a fight with Princess Diana 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z So, like all good social scientists, he was a political ascetic. Andy Kohut, a rare Washington figure 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z He was hardly ascetic: at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, where he was a sophomore, Jahar was known as a pot dealer. The Lawyer Who Defended Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z He was ascetic to a fault, oddly careless about his appearance, his food, and his home. Tea with Oliver Sacks: Will Self, Andrew Solomon and Sue Halpern pay tribute 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Most will spend it in a state of perpetual exhaustion, as near ascetics with regard to family, friends and other pleasures. The Real Problem With Medical Internships 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z His ascetic diet of black, bulked up with enigmatic biomorphic bits and pieces, seems to have been an attempt to counter claims that his “all-over” pictures were facile, flimsy, hedonistic and decorative. Why Jackson Pollock gave up painting 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z As the most senior staffer, the ascetic Podesta embodies the new campaign’s tightfisted ethos. How cheap is Hillary Clinton’s campaign? This cheap. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Baumard acknowledges that moral and ascetic qualities probably existed in humans before the major religions emphasizing them. Did Affluence Spur the Rise of Modern Religions? 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Modi, an ascetic who is a committed vegetarian and an enthusiastic yoga practitioner himself, suggested an international yoga day when speaking to the United Nations on a visit to New York last year. Modi’s plan to change India and the world through yoga angers religious minorities 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Teachers and doctors are reluctant to move to such an isolated place, says Piovesan, a thin and ascetic figure dressed in white. Sidebar: Will a road through the rainforest bring prosperity or disaster? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to characterize him as a purist and an ascetic, but Potter was polarizing. Dean Potter, Extreme Risk and the Allure of ‘Dangerous Arts’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Wirathu's venomous tirades are at odds with the common Western conception of a Buddhist monk: a gentle, saffron-robed ascetic in the mold of the Dalai Lama. Monk dubbed 'Buddhist Bin Laden' targets Myanmar's persecuted Muslims 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z In the latter film, a dramatization of the life of designer Yves Saint Laurent, fashion is depicted as either an ascetic, monk-like endeavor or a backdrop for scandalous excess and debauchery. ‘Iris,’ about designer Iris Apfel, celebrates a woman of singular vision 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The discipline is between 3,000 and 6,000 years old and originated somewhere on the Indian subcontinent, possibly among religious ascetics. Modi’s plan to change India and the world through yoga angers religious minorities 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Slowly, his life took on an ascetic pattern. Will Gaudi be made a saint? - BBC News 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z But rather than pull back on austerity, the famously ascetic British appear ready to double down. Britons issue a verdict on austerity: Please, sir, can we have some more? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z But the reason he personified hope for many Nigerians, said Patrick Smith, editor of the authoritative journal Africa Confidential, was that his ascetic, strict persona stood in stark contrast to Jonathan's. Nigeria president-elect's stern side now an asset, not a liability 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z His image of personal austerity — a sandal-wearing ascetic, he is one of the very few Nigerian leaders who did not emerge from holding office immensely wealthy — added to his appeal. Muhammadu Buhari, a Familiar, and Now Less Divisive, Choice for Nigerian Voters 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Almost daily, insurgents fired up by a strange concoction of Islamist ideology and ascetic inclinations rampage through villages in the Nigerian northeast, killing, burning, and maiming. Boko Haram Is Hardly a New Phenomenon in Nigeria 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Despite his access to great wealth he was “ascetic” and spoke plainly to commoners. Saudi Arabia as America's Frenemy: Obama To Visit "Ally" Which Makes World More Dangerous 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z He was described as ascetic, or as ascetic as someone in the habit of renting out entire hotels could be. King Abdullah, Who Nudged Saudi Arabia Forward, Dies at 90 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The Education of a Value Investor’s importance lies in recasting value investing as an ascetic discipline. Guy Spier's The Education Of A Value Investor 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z He has taught lessons by day and taken classes for his master’s degree in biomechanics by night, in an ascetic existence driven by curiosity. Chris Como’s Quiet Study of the Golf Swing Leads to Tiger Woods’s Side 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Adhering to this new regimen proved easy, however, because I had begun seriously dating someone who also led an ascetic existence. Marriage Built on Miles Finds Hope in Marathon 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Not that the man now ranked as the richest owner in American sports lives an ascetic existence. Steve Ballmer opens a new window as Clippers' enthusiastic owner Brand is hardly an ascetic, but he is learning about self-denial. Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’ 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z General Assembly since his resounding election victory in May, Modi also invoked India's Hindu and ascetic traditions, saying they might provide answers to climate change and called for an International Yoga Day. India's Modi jabs at Pakistan, encourages yoga in U.N. address 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z There is a tradition of Thai leaders embracing ascetic Buddhist values after becoming embroiled in bitter tumult. Are the Thais Really Going to Jail Sommeliers? 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z But he did not abandon his ascetic lifestyle. The man who helped bring yoga to the West 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The new ascetic is someone who goes for a walk without their phone or takes a week off Twitter to cleanse themselves. Mindfulness is all about self-help. It does nothing to change an unjust world 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It is too early to declare that a wide-scale rebellion is underway, or that ISIS, whose brand of ascetic Islamic law deems shrines heretical, is losing its grip of control on the city. Iraqi Anger Rises as Militants Attack Mosul’s Cultural History 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Yet among such ascetic efforts are some true indulgences. A Review of Muse by Jonathan Cartwright in Washington 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Many scholars ascribe them to the Essenes, a Jewish sect of ascetics. Son of Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar Is Sentenced to Two Months in Jail 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Such visitors would be happier amid the gaudy flaws of Eleven Madison Park or the celebrity world of George Blanc than in these ascetic monasteries of gastronomy. Further Reflections On The Legendary French Restaurants 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Or, adopt an ascetic philosophy: Pack light and carry on. Europe beckons air travelers, but may leave your bag behind 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Ray Allen, that ascetic and ageless monk of a 3-point shooter, sat in his bathrobe and slippers and spoke of his four sons and his intent to spend more time with them when he retires. The Miami Heat Dispirited and Disorganized in Loss to San Antonio Spurs 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Some saw something incorruptible in the ascetic and disciplined officer. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leader, dies Mr. Modi, 63, left his family home as a teenager, adopting the ascetic discipline of an activist for a Hindu nationalist organization. Signs of Diplomacy as Indian Leader Is Sworn In 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The other looks and even dresses a bit like the famously ascetic Mahatma Gandhi. Afghan candidates differ in style not substance 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist. Why We Cheer for Mindy Kaling Despite Not Loving Her Show 2014-05-06T16:00:59Z "Below the surface, much of Indian society, particularly in the countryside, thinks that Mr Modi's wife is the epitome of the ideal woman: ascetic, self-abnegating, unseen and unheard," she says. Canada passes US in middle-class wealth 2014-04-22T15:46:57Z Celibacy and ascetic renunciation of the comforts of family life is seen as a source of spiritual strength in Hinduism. Indian election gets personal, rivals attack Modi over marriage 2014-04-11T15:39:55Z He also conducted his affairs like an ascetic, raising no money for 15 months, then accepting donations of no more than half the maximum legal amount, until a wealthy Republican financier challenged him in 2010. Comptroller to Forgo Financing by Public 2014-04-07T01:30:03Z After Modi left home, he adopted an ascetic lifestyle and dedicated himself to winning recruits to the RSS, virtually cutting ties with his family, they said. Man and myth collide as India's Modi eyes final ascent to power 2014-04-04T09:01:57Z All agreed to wear the device for a week in November and share their data, as well as details of their ascetic diets. The Measure of an Olympian 2014-01-21T01:12:09Z In comparison to the ascetic 1980s jihad in Afghanistan, sleeping quarters in Syria are provided with Internet connections, allowing fighters to chat to family members abroad and play online games. 'My Afro Is Melting' 2013-11-27T09:50:21Z The Kedar Ragini depicts an ascetic listening intently to a musician The exhibition showcases 130 objects from 25 museums and private collections around the world. Yoga history - savage and serene 2013-10-25T00:45:07Z One character struggles to transition from an ascetic, sex-free recovery to one that includes a relationship. Sex Addiction: An Intimacy Disorder 2013-09-30T17:30:00Z Succession is a fraught topic in Thailand as the heir apparent, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, is a controversial figure whose more lavish lifestyle contrasts with the ascetic bearing associated with his father. Thai King Leaves Hospital as Bangkok Braces for Fresh Protests 2013-08-02T09:20:27Z Still, it was undeniable that Francis’s easygoing and ascetic style aroused optimism among many here that the Catholic Church could be on the cusp of a long-awaited revival. Vibrant Display at Pope’s Last Mass in Brazil 2013-07-28T21:41:46Z He describes an ascetic youth dedicated entirely to the pursuit of footballing excellence. David Beckham: product of Sir Alex Ferguson's school of hard graft 2013-05-17T11:31:49Z Maybe this is better than self-denying ascetic teenage subculture anarchism. Inside the Pussy Riot Split 2013-05-08T08:45:00Z More than 2,000 years old, the festival is a meeting point for Hindu "sadhu" ascetics, some of whom live in forests or Himalayan caves and who belong to dozens of inter-related congregations. India stampede kills 36 at world's largest religious festival 2013-02-11T06:49:46Z One ascetic Buddhist sect organised protests against the ThaiBev stock listing, some outside Mr Charoen's home in Bangkok, which escalated to the point where he was forced to shift the listing to Singapore. Thailand's whiskey tycoon branches out 2013-02-03T04:48:57Z The ascetic Swartz, who never attempted to cash in on the information he “liberated,” was motivated by ideology, not the accumulation of wealth. You’re No Aaron Swartz! 2013-01-23T09:45:00Z The atmosphere is intellectual, rugged and ascetic, and the college is a democratic body, where student-led committees decide admissions, hire the faculty and mind most matters of policy. Co-education: Old all-male ways die hard 2013-01-17T16:04:41Z The ascetics are the biggest crowd pullers, but away from all the media attention were millions of ordinary Hindus, mostly rural folk, who queued patiently for hours to bathe in the holy waters. Millions at Kumbh Mela first day 2013-01-14T17:09:16Z "I wash away all my sins, from this life and before," said wandering ascetic Swami Shankranand Saraswati, 77, shivering naked in the cold. Millions of Hindus take to the Ganges at largest festival 2013-01-14T07:13:48Z “They are still eating macrobiotic,” says one knowledgeable source, referring to the ascetic diet Castro adopted in the late ’90s as a treatment for his diverticulitis. Fidel Castro’s Last Stand 2012-12-17T05:00:00Z The ascetic Swartz, who never attempted to cash in on the information he “liberated,” was motivated by ideology, not the accumulation of wealth. You’re No Aaron Swartz! 2013-01-23T09:45:00Z Mr. Petraeus, a gaunt fitness fanatic, is known as a brainy ascetic. David Petraeus, Seen as an Invincible C.I.A. Director, Self-Destructs 2012-11-10T17:30:03Z A stocky, bespectacled man with a trimmed white beard, Modi is known for his ascetic lifestyle and enthusiasm for yoga. Narendra Modi: the Indian leader who came in from the cold 2012-10-29T03:41:29Z Virtually year-round, we lead ascetic lives, where each movement on and off our bikes is calculated so that we will perform to the best of our abilities. Cycling’s New Path, to a Clean Sport, Must Continue 2012-10-15T15:40:21Z The Essenes, an ascetic sect of desert dwellers who lived around the time of Jesus, believed that when they sang in unison on the Sabbath, they were mirroring the songs of the angels in heaven. Celebrating the Jewish High Holy Days: Where is the pleasure this season? 2012-09-13T18:53:00Z One: I become an ascetic, a monk, taking deep cleansing breaths before I open the fridge to free myself of the desire for leftover chicken fingers. Dads Often Find It Difficult to Eat Healthy 2012-08-21T22:28:14Z America’s ascetic reputation is confirmed by a paper to be published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology by Scott Rick of the University of Michigan and Maurice Schweitzer of Wharton Business School. Drinking at work: The boredom of boozeless business 2012-08-09T15:01:02Z In the runup to the Olympics, Adlington has lived the life of an ascetic – she recently said she doesn't party and is in bed by 8.30pm most nights. Rebecca Adlington takes 800m freestyle bronze behind Katie Ledecky 2012-08-03T23:42:00Z That moment of passion and of shame had revealed in him a new nature, and severed him irrevocably from the hopes and feelings of the ascetic life. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The event that seems to have called him from home was the preaching of an enthusiastic ascetic named John the Baptist. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z He was a celibitarian and an ascetic, drinking water three times a week, wearing a hair-shirt next his skin, and keeping the sheet intended for his burial at the foot of his bed. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z In appearance, Terry was an ill-adjusted compromise between an ascetic and a young man about town. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Yet enough of the traditional ascetic tendencies were preserved to lead to the existence of a monastic fraternity whose members divested themselves of all individual property, and promised chastity, with obedience to a superior. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z They are not, however, on that account the less significant of the moral conceptions which the ascetic period had created. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z If St. Dominic was the type of the active practical missionary, St. Francis was the ideal of the contemplative ascetic, modified by boundless love and charity for his fellows. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z He could, indeed, comprehend the ascetic grandeur of a Pascal or the rolling eloquence of a Bossuet, but he was distrustful of that fervid breath of poesy that comes and goes unsummoned and uncontrolled. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Whether by his prestige as a hermit and ascetic or by his personal charm, he soon acquired enormous influence over the people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Yet, instead of the youthful and noble countenance which tradition would surely ascribe to a gallant prince, the face which peered from the casque was that of an evil-minded ascetic. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z It would be difficult to conceive a more horrible or disgusting picture than is given of the penances by which that saint commenced his ascetic career. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z These customs, and the precepts embodied in the formula of heretication, illustrate the strong ascetic tendency of the faith. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z His face seemed furrowed by the suffering of ascetic mortifications, and a little cross of black wood was suspended from his neck, leaving no doubt as to his faith. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Both, however, observed the ascetic life, of which the abstinence of Pythagoras and the endurance of the Stoics were imitations, and all practised the virtues most opposite to heathen morality, namely, humility and charity. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Following the example of St Augustine, he is said to have organized his cathedral clergy into a “congregation,” devoting a great part of their time to social exercises of ascetic religion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z In the preceding ages the supreme ideal had been the ascetic. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z His face, as Marston saw it in profile, was thin and in a way ascetic, but it wore a stamp of recklessness. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z She turned a wayward ascetic into a fairly good parish priest. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z It is ascetic, as it acts on the will through the link which connects the body with the mind, and regulates the passions through the inferior part of the soul. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z His bulky person and swollen face suggested at the first glance a sort of Abbot Boniface; he was, I believe, in reality an ascetic. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The ideal of the Catholic legends was the ascetic, whose first duty was to abandon all secular feelings and ties. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Still Harry's rather a Spartan; there's an ascetic vein in him. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The nearest practical approach to the theological estimate of a sin may be found in the ranks of the ascetics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z To put an ascetic work into the hands of such persons would often be like giving beef to a young baby: it would hurt, not help them. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Although a good deal of an ascetic, as his emaciated face and figure would testify, he is nothing of a hermit. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z “Vast numbers of laymen separated from their wives under the influence of the ascetic enthusiasm which Hildebrand created.” History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Cisneros yielded outwardly, but under the veneer of display he led the ascetic life. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Starting from this belief, the ascetic makes it the exclusive object of his life to avoid sinning. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z A Communism, ascetic, denouncing all the pleasures of life, Spartan, was the first form of the new teaching. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z Mr. Kato’s family kept city officials away, alternately saying Mr. Kato was in a vegetative state or that he was a monk going through the process of self-mummification through deep solitude and an ascetic diet. IHT Rendezvous: In Japan, 'Lonely Deaths' in Society's Margins 2012-03-25T05:05:07Z The sufferings endured by the ascetic who fled from his relations were often, no doubt, very great. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z At Miraflores is a wooden statue of St. Bruno, with a keen and subtle face of the same ascetic type as that of the young monk we watched praying quite oblivious of the gaping tourists. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z It is sufficiently evident, that, in proportion to the high organisation of society, the amiable and the social virtues will be cultivated at the expense of the heroic and the ascetic. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z If it is to overcome its opponent, misanthropic, fleshless spiritualism, and that on the latter's own ground, materialism has to chastise its own flesh and turn ascetic. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z He was the author of a number of ascetic and controversial writings, which were collected and published in one edition by S. Brunner in 1851. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z It is this last consideration which renders it impossible for us to place the heroism of the ascetic on the same level with that of the great patriots of Greece or Rome. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z There exists an account by a witness of the sensation his thin, ascetic face caused in the court, as if an early Syrian anchorite had wandered thither. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Granted the ascetic principle upon which the monastic system rested, the Rule of St. Benedict must be regarded as eminently moderate and sensible. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Indeed, the personality of the stern God himself exhibits this feature in a very marked degree, whence the term mahāyogī or “great ascetic” is often applied to him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Much, however, was due to the hallucinations of solitary and ascetic life, and much more to deliberate imposture. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The effect was indescribable,—austere, ascetic, yet with a passionate glamour essentially Spanish. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z But sixteen hundred years ago the philosopher Lucian called attention to the exceptional longevity of the Pythagorean ascetics, whose religious by-laws enjoined total abstinence from wine and all sorts of animal food. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z He was no dreamer, he had none of the makings of an ascetic, much less a saint, and yet so far he has beaten me. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Following our charioteer, who had opened an inner door, we went into a large dimly-lit room which, when the window-shutters had been opened, revealed itself as a long narrow dining-room of severely ascetic appearance. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The Christian faith, planted in the dissolute cities of Asia Minor, had produced many fanatical ascetics and a few illustrious theologians, but it had no renovating effect upon the people at large. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z We note, in the first place, its protean and capricious form, half Judaistic, half philosophical—ascetic in one direction, libertine in another: “tossed by the waves, and carried about with every wind.” The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Even the ascetic tortures himself only in order to gain greater good. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z It is not always the ascetic who feels most acutely or sympathises most intensely. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z There seems, however, exaggeration in Walton’s statement as to the meanness of his dress; and Walton certainly misreads his character when he portrays him as a kind of ascetic mystic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The ascetic notion of the impurity even of marriage may be faintly traced. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z He may turn ascetic, and deny this or that to himself; and yet never deny himself. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z He might have quoted the mystic Joachim Flora—of the Third Kingdom—who said that the true ascetic counts nothing his own save only his harp. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In respect to Mr. O'Connell's general course as a public man, it may be said that he did not belong to the ascetic school of politicians. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Some of these passages come from works of Tertullian's later years, when he was evidently leaning more than of old to ascetic theory. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Services of the ascetics in enforcing the duty of chastity, 318-320 Children, charge of murdering infants, among the early Christians, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z It has been known amongst these rigid ascetics that when a stranger visited them, they mortified themselves by entertaining him and partaking of the good cheer. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In her character, the womanhood, the sweet, pure, physical womanhood, had a strong part; it had not been refined away by over-development of the mental powers, or reduced to a subordinate position by ascetic surroundings. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z It has an ascetic ring about it—an aspect of negation, which seeks for abstract holiness, and turns its back on human nature. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Hugh’s manners were a little rigid and harsh; but, though an ascetic to himself, he was distinguished by a broad kindliness to others, so that even the Jews of Lincoln wept at his funeral. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Moral beauty of some of the legends of the ascetics, 156. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Fasting has ever been considered as predisposing to meditation and ascetic contemplation. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z That all this was unwise, and brought its own punishment, will be readily admitted; but it is well to note that Fletcher's ascetic practice was not the result of an ascetic theology. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z He had nothing of the ascetic in his appearance, though his manners were cold and reserved; but he was liberal, and had good nature and good temper, as well as good parts. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z She had had opportunities of studying his countenance while he slept, and she had traced in it those qualities of enthusiasm and weakness, of the libertine and the ascetic, which his career so remarkably displayed. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The age of the ascetics began to fade. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z After several proposals of marriage to other ladies had been rejected, he married an heiress who agreed with his ascetic programme of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Beneath his ascetic practice was evangelical doctrine, and a living faith. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z Simon was too sternly self-contained, too completely under the mastery of his cold and ascetic faith, to give thought or word to the boy. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z The Egyptian has always been deeply religious, and his very enjoyment of life makes him admire and revere the ascetic. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z The laws were rescinded under the influence of the ascetic enthusiasm which made men regard the state of celibacy as pre-eminently holy. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z But Gauguin could never, had he known of Blake, have pardoned in him the ultimate ascetic negation, the contemptuous denial of earthliness, of "the delusions of the goddess Nature." Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Her ascetic visage was wrapped in holy calm, as with closed eyes she told her beads. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z These delusions were not confined to ascetics and peasants, but they took possession of nobles and kings; of people who were at that time called intelligent; of the then educated. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z He was neither an insane ascetic nor a fool of pleasure, but walked the golden path along the strip of verdure that lies between the deserts of extremes. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Decline of the ascetic and saintly qualities with civilisation, 130. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Now the intelligent men of the world have cast aside the teachings, the philosophy of the ascetics. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z The ascetic Abbess gazed proudly and fondly on her son, but with a tinge of concern. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Yō′gi, a Hindu ascetic who practises the yoga system, consisting in the withdrawal of the senses from external objects, long continuance in unnatural postures, &c.; Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The beds were mattresses stuffed with something remarkably like potatoes, and laid on the mud floor at night, upon which the nuns slept a short, ascetic sleep. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Mr. Chase had the high narrow forehead of an ascetic, the loose mouth of a sensualist, and a thin crop of pale and almost colourless hair. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Cromwell himself was no ascetic and saw no harm in honest sport. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z She, Masago, and Tomoy� had got on so splendidly that, as she thought of the past, a faint blush of self-complacency tinged the Abbess's ascetic cheek. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Essene, es-sēn′, n. one of a small religious fraternity among the ancient Jews leading retired ascetic lives and holding property in common.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Despite the heavy cares of an extensive diocese, Bishop Ryan has found time to make some valuable contributions to doctrinal and ascetic literature. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Scholarly, dignified, ascetic in his private life, devoted to the service of the Church, he was nevertheless more respected than loved. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Its originator was not a sage like Confucius, not an ascetic like Buddha; it was the people itself. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z This ascetic religious philosopher was a master of thrilling war stories. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He had repressed them by the ruse of convincing himself he was an ascetic. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z She had become extraordinarily stout, and the coppery complexion inherited from her Aztec ancestors had taken on an unhealthy ascetic pallor. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z His works, consisting of sermons, letters and ascetic treatises, have been frequently reprinted,—the best edition being that of the Benedictine P. N. A. Giustiniani, published at Venice in 2 vols. folio, 1751. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Treb also expects us to apply ourselves with the ascetic, aesthetic devotion of Trappist monks: "We do not do drugs nor alcohol, we do confetti." A Very Confetti New Year's 2007-01-09T16:35:00Z Another frequent cause of visions is long-continued fasting combined with more or less ascetic devotion. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z This morality would easily become ascetic and appear impossible if it were not blended with an opposite element which renders it human and fruitful without either lowering or destroying it. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Fortunately for the Government, the prophet was no ascetic. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z This kind of suicide is so far from being the result of the will to live, that such a completely resigned ascetic only ceases to live because he has already altogether ceased to will. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The restraints of an ascetic life seem to have been very little to Hāfiz’s taste, and his loose conduct and wine-bibbing propensities drew upon him the severe censure of his monastic colleagues. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Here he devoted himself to ascetic devotion, and had a vision ordering him to leave the world. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The toil he had borne since the thaw came and the suspense he had suffered had set their stamp on him; he looked fined down, his face had an ascetic cast. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z With all his admiration for the ascetic life, he recognizes human limitations. Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England 2011-12-19T03:00:41.437Z To this category very properly belongs the life of St. Francis of Assisi, that true personification of the ascetic, and prototype of all mendicant friars. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The ascetic gently put aside the dead ape, and rose, a grey phantom, to his feet. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z She died quite young, exhausted by her ascetic life and continued excitement, and has ever since been revered as the patron saint of Peru. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z There was nothing about the prairie man to suggest the ascetic, yet Beatrice vaguely realized that strenuous toil and clean ambition had driven the grosser passions out of him. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Schopenhauer admits that the knowledge which for the ascetic is the 'quietive' of the will has to be won anew in a perpetual conflict. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z "I should go on with the game," said the most innocent and most ascetic youth among them. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Neither can we accord firm confidence or high praise to the "Way of Salvation" which somehow Will can attain to follow by æsthetic contemplation and ascetic self-denial. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Some of these ascetics pass from a simple trance to a state of catalepsy, in which their bodies become insensible to pain—but this kind of ecstasis is not accompanied by divination. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Maddened by desire, this high-born Princess makes violent love in language of supreme beauty to the ascetic dweller in the desert. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z And, in the end, we shall perhaps not find the ascetic to be the supreme ethical type. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z If Zoroaster, as Pliny and Plutarch think, lived only on milk and cheese, and passed thirty years in the wilderness, these are merely traits taken from the lives of the Brahman ascetics. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z His mode of life was simple and ascetic in the extreme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Married when quite young to the old marquis, she tried after his death to protect herself against the temptations of the world, and of her own heart, by ascetic devotion. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Let not the old ascetic say we ought not to gratify our appetites any further than is necessary to maintain health and to perpetuate the species. Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question 2011-12-03T03:00:10.910Z The apparent contradiction is at once obvious between the ascetic consummation of his ethics and his unascetic life, carefully occupied in its latter part with rules for the preservation of his naturally robust health. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The Ascetic.—The ascetic makes out of virtue a slavery. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z His face looked curiously ascetic and thin, but the smile in his keen eyes was genial. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Tombs of ancient abbots we also find, and one recumbent carving of a starved and shrunken figure, whose leanness attests some ascetic period not famous in sculpture. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z But even in this comparatively happy case, shall we count for nothing the years of ascetic sacrifice at which after happiness is purchased? Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question 2011-12-03T03:00:10.910Z |
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