(n.) The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of the literature illustrates a long-standing relation between self-starvation and religious ideals in Western culture and points to an association between contemporary anorexia nervosa and asceticism.
(2) The general has a (perhaps embellished) reputation for monk-like asceticism, eating once a day and banning alcohol from his headquarters in Kabul.
(3) Focal points for the subsequent symptom complexes of sexual behavior in puberty are: psychosexual prematurity or retardation, masturbation, homosexual relations, pubertal asceticism and premature and frequently changing sexual relations.
(4) The hypothesis presented here suggests pleasing asceticism on the part of eukaryotes.
(5) The remark catches his combination of asceticism and elegance: an American journalist once described him as "a haute-couture Gandalf", a wizard who is a little too fussy about his wardrobe.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It is not a bundle of laughs, Wagner was going a bit loopy by the time he completed it, the opera is underpinned by distasteful theories of racial cleansing (directed, as ever, against the Jews), and there is an unremitting asceticism and Schopenhauerian rejection of the physical world.
(7) While al-Qaida and other global jihadists project an image of religious asceticism, jihadist militants – comprising as they do men interacting under conditions of stress – often have pornographic material close to hand.
(8) He admitted he was tired, and a slightly gaunt look emphasised the sense of asceticism.
(9) These findings also suggest that future cross-cultural research might examine asceticism about the body and food in religions other than Judeo-Christian, cultural groups with rituals of fasting and vomiting, and the presence of fundamentalist churches and missionaries in those non-Western cultures for which there are recent reports of eating disorders.
(10) Under the influence of the developmental mode in preadolescence, every case determines how to utilize adolescent mentality (asceticism and indulgence colored by masochism and defiance vs. obedience).
(11) Asceticism ruled, wedlock deployed merely as sexuality's panic room, as he famously expressed in Corinthians 7:9: "But if they cannot contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn."
(12) As Gill now believed, "there can be no mysticism without asceticism".
(13) The theme of the starving writer finding authenticity in the forced asceticism of the garret is a sub-theme in this series.
(14) High levels of denial and low levels of asceticism were found in all three groups.
(15) Asceticism implies a spiritual or religious foundation for the practices it denotes; moreover, the precise nature of the foundation is obscure.
(16) The case studies presented here demonstrate that this asceticism may be subjectively expressed through religious concepts about the body and food and suggest that future research formally investigate the religious practices and beliefs of anorectics seen clinically.
(17) Beatrice's stormy asceticism, ecstatic states and mood swings lend themselves to potentially competing hypotheses regarding the spiritual and psychopathological significance of her adolescent development and eventual life-course.
(18) The asceticism that characterises anorexia nervosa, has received little attention in the literature.
(19) Nietzsche especially objected to the nihilism of late Wagner, with what he saw as its parroting of Schopenhauerian pessimism and asceticism.
Renunciation
Definition:
(n.) The act of renouncing.
(n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(2) Nick Lowles, director of Hope Not Hate, which campaigns against extremism, said: "We celebrate Quilliam's efforts here but only a complete renunciation of the violence and hatred the EDL leaders have promoted, and a turning away from the anti-Muslim rhetoric they have championed, will be enough for the many thousands who have suffered from the EDL's ugly actions over the past three years."
(3) The systemic elaboration of anterior phases (individuation, couple) allows an integration of the new role and renunciation of the symptom.
(4) 7 StGB and a reduction respectively a renunciation of minimal period of revocation should give possibility to courts and reprieval authorities to ensure the inclusion of a large number of persons suitable for additional training and in cases of total abstinence traffic authority should regard the aptitude for participation in traffic as regranted.
(5) But Mazowiecki’s renunciation stabilised the eastern frontiers of the European Union.
(6) But it is no use the Guardian preaching renunciation.
(7) It is possible to renounce any information but renunciation of information assumes a basic knowledge of both possible kinds of treatment.
(8) That will require the formal and public renunciation of many of the policies on which the leadership election was won and the construction of a viable economic policy – a wholly legitimate process in a party which prides itself on being a broad church.
(9) From the giving up of smoking on the eve of his wedding, via the renunciation of his nominal religion and dropping of his name, to the abandonment of his career, Philip has proved himself the consummate royal wife.
(10) The further development, however, showed that the responsible and successful surgery in a special field-in the case of Kehr the surgery of the bile ducts-could only be performed with a far-reaching renunciation of other surgical activities.
(11) The renunciation of a sealer is the advantages of the procedure.
(12) "Essentially, it has to do with the renunciation of citizenship.
(13) What are probably his two best-known pieces of writing, his 1940 novel Darkness at Noon and his contribution to Richard Crossman's 1949 essay collection, The God That Failed , were both inspired by his painful renunciation of communism.
(14) In-depth interviews and participant observation was conducted with 14 Hindu religious renunciates, 70 years or older.
(15) The remedicalization of psychiatry does not mean the return to a reductionistic biomedical model of psychiatry or the renunciation of psychotherapy and psychodynamics.
(16) We cannot meet the secretary of state's public renunciation of violence, but it would be given privately as long as we were sure that we were not being tricked."
(17) Unprepared learning, which is often accompanied by failures on the first steps of learning, is suggested to produce renunciation of search, which decreases learning ability, suppress retention, and increase REM sleep requirement.
(18) (I have, incidentally, done a straw poll among my octogenarian contemporaries, and have found that the majority were as ignorant and shocked by the renunciation as I was.
(19) Presumably, the function of REM sleep is to compensate for renunciation of search in the waking period.
(20) There can be no voluntary renunciation of sovereign immunity, just as no person can sell himself into slavery.