S. aUrElIuS - NbOmE [cAcTuS MaN]aMnEsIa sCaNnEr - bOuNtY [uNrElEaSeD]sOnS Of mAgDaLeNe - tAkBiR [fOrThCoMiNg oN AsCeTiC HoUsE]gLoChIdS - NeT B [fOrThCoMiNg oN AsCeTiC HoUsE]g.i.s.m.
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This seems somewhat ascetic to me, but each to their own.
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I like that you are an ascetic human who loves indulgence.
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Frontier religions were often ascetic, banning drinking, card-playing and dancing.
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The shift away from this ascetic stance started shortly after the election.
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It's not like a get rich quick scheme or an ascetic approach.
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I'm still drawn to an ascetic lifestyle, still struggle with social anxiety.
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Chicken and vegetable soup for the ascetic, Moroccan lamb for the gourmet.
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We didn't lead ascetic lives, but prudish attitudes had invaded our psyches.
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His father is a pastor with an ascetic hatred of the body.
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Schweppes' Bitter Lemon (and other delicious but ascetic or old-fashioned flavours).
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But Mr Vázquez has the misfortune of succeeding a notable ascetic, José Mujica.
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For the more ascetic, there's the diminutive Japanese Kyocera Card Keitai KY-01L.
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They're so virtuous and ascetic, and yet bacon is so good, you know?
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But Ramdev's operation is a far cry from the ascetic ashrams of yesteryear.
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Like a wise ascetic, he was scrutinizing us, two skinny creatures holding hands.
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The officials swim in a fancy pool; the ascetic Salus prefers the ocean.
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Alma doesn't just defeat Reynolds; she saves him from himself, from his ascetic bubble.
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Recently, Arizona noise collective Ascetic House accused Roca Wear of ripping off its desgins.
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A comparatively more ascetic creative, McRyhew deliberately excludes samples in his process as well.
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He had established his own aura, the aura of the samurai: unswerving and ascetic.
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In private, though, he acknowledged that the ascetic life he led was not for everyone.
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American fashion was in one of its ascetic phases, all monochrome fabrics and severe geometries.
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He is something like a comedy ascetic, demanding a purity that temporal jokes cannot achieve.
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He completely became an ascetic — no coffee, no booze, no drugs, limited types of food.
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Word of the Day noun: someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline adjective: practicing great self-denial adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline _________ The word ascetic has appeared in 29 articles on nytimes.
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They tend to despise comfort and require a life that is difficult, ascetic and self-sacrificial.
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Meanwhile, the BJP named another controversial Hindu ascetic as one of its candidates in central India.
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But where the Warriors are loose and effervescent, the Spurs play with an almost ascetic stoicism.
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The other is the through line of ascetic simplicity, as seen in the very last scene.
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As such, the public areas downstairs are decidedly ascetic, as were rural homes of the era.
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Where he was sensuous and sovereign, she is shy and almost ascetic, scornful of extravagant display.
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An ascetic sensuality, at once somber, self-abnegating, and restrained in its joyfulness, floods through Yun's paintings.
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"Painting With" is relatively ascetic amid Animal Collective's catalog, but onstage its momentum was all that mattered.
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The ascetic, asthmatic Argentine doctor first fought alongside Fidel Castro in the mountains of Cuba's Sierra Maestra.
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Wenders is plainly taken with Francis and his personal commitment to the ascetic lifestyle of his namesake.
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And he maintained a private, sometime ascetic image at odds with the Dionysian excesses associated with rock.
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But he turned these qualities to his advantage and ran as a sort of angry, ascetic monk.
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Asceticism has its charms, but some forms of the ascetic life are a little sexier than others.
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He said this is why ascetic religious practitioners like monks and hermits sometimes go to meditate in caves.
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Lovers of ascetic eating, in which a squeeze of lemon stands in for cooking, best look away now.
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His style—ascetic and almost monkish, as an acquaintance puts it—differs sharply from that of his compatriot.
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This almost ascetic devotion is often attempted in rock and very rarely accomplished in any genuinely impactful way.
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Among the winners for the BJP was a Hindu ascetic accused of plotting a bomb attack on Muslims.
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The central composer was the twentieth-century Russian ascetic Galina Ustvolskaya, who wrote spiritual music of flagellating force.
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Then there were the Essenes, a remote, ascetic community with strong apocalyptic leanings who shared property in common.
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Mike Lévy, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchman who records as Gesaffelstein, has taken a more ascetic tack.
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When he was around 18, he went on his Himalayan sojourn, contemplating a life as an ascetic priest.
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With a litany of strict rules regarding what and when he can eat, he's the NFL's resident ascetic.
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He lives on his N.Y.U. earnings and takes no salary from E.J.I. His personal style is nearly ascetic.
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Yogi, as everyone calls him, is so ascetic and incorruptible that he doesn't use air-conditioners, they say.
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For my tarot reader and vision therapist... Didi,I like that you are an ascetic human who loves indulgence.
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He is often derided as an ascetic crank, pond scum, or inversely, revered as a back-to-nature saint.
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To be fair, money is a nice thing to have, and I personally am by no means an ascetic.
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It posits instead the idea of the "middle path," a life that is neither excessively materialistic nor too ascetic.
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There's Robert Pattinson as a stoic ascetic, Juliette Binoche as a fanatical doctor, and Mia Goth as an unstable inmate.
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Baba Ramdev (pictured), an ascetic yogi who is the public face of the brand, makes for an unconventional capitalist symbol.
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Congratulations Jeff Bezos on your change in personal brand from "business ascetic" to "prefers killing with his bare hands" pic.twitter.
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The man himself, tall and ascetic, hair swept back from a high forehead, is a visitor from the 219th century.
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And in a country where political elites are often dogged by whispers of lavish corruption, Mr. Joko's family is ascetic.
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Beckett's work was famously free from concerns with conventional storytelling and unafraid of silence, spare to the point of ascetic.
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Rather than advocate an ascetic renunciation of faux-feminist consumerism, Filipovic argues that women should pursue their right to happiness.
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Many Muslims are also spooked by the win of a Hindu ascetic accused of plotting a bomb attack on Muslims.
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Jaeggy seems to abide by a similar gospel: she lives a frugal, ascetic life, and is monkishly patient with her illuminations.
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Pragya Singh Thakur, wearing garlands and the saffron robes of a Hindu ascetic, is a candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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The ultimate purpose of Augustine's and Tolstoy's confessions, like Wittgenstein's, was ascetic: self-improvement through the catharsis and penance confession elicits.
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Mr. Godard's subsequent political films, made in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin, would be far more ascetic and considerably less fun.
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He was accompanied by an exceptionally tall and willowy young man with long, center-parted black hair and wide, ascetic eyes.
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Bergman's exploration of ascetic Protestantism and faith is so specific to his cinematic aesthetic that onstage it feels like a caricature.
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It asks regular consumers to be more vigilant, more ascetic, more considerate, and feel more guilt than the brands selling to them.
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Years of ascetic discipline have allowed Erró to produce such an expansive body; "I work 10 to 12 hours everyday," he says.
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But Bill was neither a grouch nor the ascetic people liked to imagine, fashion's own St. Teresa on her bed of logs.
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"the music is whatever 2" tracklist: hEaDbAnD - "fEbRuUs" PaRt 3 (InTeGrAtE) [ArS MeDiA]oRgOnOn pIt - mUkOiD FlEx [FoRtHcOmInG On aScEtIc hOuSe]J.
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" Wittgenstein saw philosophy in a similarly ascetic way: "Working in philosophy," he wrote in 1931, "is really more a working on oneself.
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The almost ascetic simplicity of classical kaiseki can be a cultural barrier; diners here "might feel like they're eating nothing," he says.
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For unclear reasons, she stopped composing in 1991 and spent the last 15 years of her life living an ascetic, monastic life.
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I don't have a nightstand per se — my bedroom is rather ascetic, with only a bed nestled between the constellation-painted walls.
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Even if you're an ascetic who eschews the materialism of holiday shopping, the Black Friday and Cyber Monday juggernaut is hard to avoid.
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And like many others, as I would learn, I also wanted something a little bit naïve and capitalistic: to buy an ascetic experience.
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It begins with a stern warning to "calorie counters," cautioning that the recipes that follow are "far too impertinent" for their ascetic palates.
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The Argentine pontiff, who had endeared himself to Catholics and non-Catholics alike with his benign informality and ascetic lifestyle, is on the defensive.
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His ascetic application, to my mind, also suggests an American pragmatism at work, with its innate distrust of the sensual for its own sake.
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How was the process of making it compare to how you've made music in the past for labels like Unknown Precept and Ascetic House?
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Chunks of albacore tuna mixed with dollops of mayonnaise and plenty of salt is an easy-to-love foil to the ascetic brown rice.
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The movie, directed by Rob Letterman, places colorful Pokémon creatures in a neo-noir ascetic, a juxtaposition that recalls "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988).
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His house has no modern conveniences, and the clinic he soon goes to, staffed by slim women with light-colored eyebrows, is similarly ascetic.
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Of course, Mr. Corbyn, who is famous for cycling to work and being "totally anti-sugar on health grounds," has a certain ascetic charm.
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He was a transhumanist ascetic, a young man who had largely withdrawn from the world so that he might never have to leave it.
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By the time Longstreth moved to Brooklyn, he was something of a minor legend in indie-rock circles: ascetic, eccentric and respected for it.
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That's true for Ernst as well, who lives a solitary life that he probably considers ascetic, but that looks from the outside more like depression.
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One that is plugged into a rigid, regimented, hierarchical corporate structure that has made him hugely wealthy, yes, but a dedicated ascetic all the same.
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But at least in such "Saturation" paintings, Venet's reductionist ascetic quietism converts to a yes-saying mysticism that plays at the limits of factual clarity.
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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.
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"We're not always fully aware of how the context of many important intellectual things in our Western thinking is indebted to an ascetic environment," Salminen says.
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With the help of a Buddhist ascetic, she conjured a city out of the jungle, subjugated the natives and begat not one, but two royal dynasties.
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Thus, the jarring incongruence — to cite an extreme example — between his ascetic, process-oriented felt hangings of the 1970s and the apocalyptic Firestormreliefs that soon followed.
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Modi himself has been an avid traveler, visiting many remote parts of the country as a young ascetic after he left home, books about him say.
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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.
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Because Mr. Buhari had sold himself as a near-ascetic reformer, as a man so personally aboveboard that he would wipe out Nigeria's decades-long corruption.
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"I have zero other possessions," he writes, and thanks to this, he has found peace as a wandering techno-ascetic — Silicon Valley's version of Zen monkhood.
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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.
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Fish keeps our attention on both illusion and surface by maintaining a field of direct, near ascetic strokes in all of the manifestations of her style.
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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.
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Faith and reason, Athens and Jerusalem, the aesthetic and the ascetic, the mystical and the philosophical — even the crucifix itself, two infinite lines converging and combining.
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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.
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The duo continued to redefine the Jil Sander man with a runway show that artfully combined the brand's signature ascetic tailoring with the couple's softer touches.
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And now that dopamine fasting has taken off, at least in the Bay Area, it's being interpreted by some adherents in the most ascetic way possible.
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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.
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In the 1930s, the militant United Automobile Workers did not insist that its members take a vow of poverty and live the ascetic life of Christian saints.
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To any devout Russian, it is the home of Saint Seraphim, an ascetic monk who was one of the most revered holy men of the tsarist era.
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An electro aesthete with an ascetic streak, he matter-of-factly explains that he still works with much of the same analogue gear he did decades prior.
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The mood in their dining rooms could be tranquil, convalescent, earth-motherly, doctrinaire or ascetic, but rarely did it ripple with the energy of hookups in progress.
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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.
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Phoenix musician and Ascetic House label/collective co-proprietor, J.S. Aurelius, has shared a degraded, unpredictably mood-shifting new mix on Houston composer Rabit's label Halcyon Veil.
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First Thaïs is too sensual for Athanaël, the tortured monk, and then, once she agrees to follow his ascetic path into the desert, she's not sensual enough.
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It would take years of meditative, ascetic practice for an individual to fully overcome this — to truly and directly see only what is in front of her.
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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.
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At the very least, it will be a way to get a part of the family's sun-soaked, rustic-chic ascetic without booking a ticket to central Texas.
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He then spent two years as a Buddhist monk but, sensing he was not suited to an ascetic life, joined his mother's jewelry business for a short time.
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While aristocratic in his bearing, with a large gray beard, Mongiardino was rather ascetic in his habits: He lived alone, rarely received visitors and never ate at home.
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The models of successful community that Dreher highlights — from Mormons to actual monastics — are often distinctive or ascetic in ways that the average American believer can't necessarily embrace.
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Adityanath, a hardline Hindu ascetic who is known for anti-Muslim comments, has called for India to become a Hindu state, and has expressed views against inter-faith marriage.
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He lives in a modest house with his girlfriend, adhering to strict, ascetic routines: rising early, working, walking the couple's English bulldog, drinking a beer in his local bar.
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WHEN SEVEN weeks of ascetic abnegation culminate in a joyful Easter celebration, Orthodox Christians are supposed to be in amity with one another, and at peace with the world.
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This opened up yoga to middle-class, conservative Pakistanis who might have remained hostile to the practice had it been presented as a purely Hindu or Indian ascetic discipline.
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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.
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Where Paterson is ascetic and gaunt, murmuring poems to himself, Neruda is corpulent and unabashed, declaiming to his disciples and eager to gorge on the sins of the flesh.
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By fasting I was tapping into my own religious, ascetic history, and I had triumphantly joined Weil and Chavez in their quest to share in the suffering of others.
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The obvious drama of the collision lay in the contrasts between the two men: The celibate and the lecher, the ascetic and the billionaire, the mystic and the frank materialist.
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The term itself derives from the Bloomberg News organization's semi-annual "The Bloomberg Way," a 300-page ascetic style guide that details how Bloomberg employees should write, report and behave.
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Baksy, traditional healers and seers, converted and continued their practices as Sufi dervishes, taking vows of extreme poverty and austerity in order to guide others down ascetic paths to god.
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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.
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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.
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"It is with great regret that today we are remembering a person who lived the life of an ascetic and who shunned fame, rank and office," the family's statement read.
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Not surprisingly, he dies (from the opening notes you can tell that the opera will not have a Disney ending), so Clémence forswears all other love and becomes an ascetic.
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The two threads become intertwined, each heightening the other, until the ostensibly ascetic and spiritual Perilous Gard becomes a kind of argument for the power and beauty of the body.
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We are no longer living out the legacy of Weber's edifying tale of Puritan spiritual entrepreneurship, harnessing the ascetic labors of the Old World to conquer a fledgling colonial-mercantile economy.
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There's a deep sense of deliberation about the album, as if every word and every sound had been weighed and pondered, not for radio consumption, but out of an ascetic craftsmanship.
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In the first, the artist, against a deep blue background, is slightly luminous himself, bare-chested and wrapped in white below the waist: an ascetic prophet, seer and seeker, barely 20.
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But there are real monsters in Weiner's story as well, from the ascetic and ruthless revolutionary Sergei Nechaev to the coterie of sycophants (among them Alan Greenspan) who gathered around Rand.
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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.
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WASHINGTON — By the standards of Robert S. Mueller III, the government's most prominent ascetic, Wednesday's nearly 10-minute statement in a seventh-floor conference room of the Justice Department was a circus.
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This mystical and ascetic vein of Islam might seem far removed from Ayaana's life, but the giveaway is the novel's repeated references to al-Adawiyya, the eighth-century holy woman from Basra.
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The idea, explains Kosha Joubert, another resident, is not to adopt a dreary, ascetic lifestyle but to demonstrate that it is possible to live in a green manner without undue sacrifice or disruption.
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He adopts different personas, too: a hug-happy uncle on trips abroad, a finger-wagging prosecutor against critics, a pious ascetic for the religious, a chowkidar (watchman) to please law-and-order nationalists.
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"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.
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Unreleased tracks from the likes of Berlin duo Amnesia Scanner, Brooklyn-based 1080p affiliate Via App, and a handful of Ascetic House releases feature, making the experience of indecision a little more enjoyable.
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Concerned about rising consumerism, King Bhumibol preached an ascetic lifestyle, even as the crown oversaw a property business that reaped billions of dollars from its ownership of prime Bangkok land, among other ventures.
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Of course, many make the pilgrimage in a more ascetic way: spending the nights under the stars, buying only the most necessary supplies, cooking for themselves with as many local ingredients as possible.
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Those who study him closely agree that Mr. Modi, 68, is a complicated man: isolated, ascetic, trusting few, close to even fewer; a blend of populist, nationalist and a self-made success story.
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Mr. Adityanath, a firebrand Hindu ascetic, who faces many accusations of stoking and participating in religious violence, was only crudely stating what his leader had already conveyed in a calibrated and effective manner.
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Although Sepah says he's created "the antidote to our overstimulated age," in reality he seems to have created something more like a stopgap measure, one prone to being misinterpreted in harshly ascetic ways.
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While it's hard to pick favorites, we're partial to Vancouver producer's Deen's burbling "Teletubby House Music," and Jock Club's "Dubplate Madness" is another raw house banger from the Arizona native and Ascetic House affiliate.
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In a nation often riven by social, ethnic and religious strife, Edhi won respect from every strata of society for an ascetic lifestyle that was devoted to helping the poor regardless of their background.
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For many observers Mr Kagame is an ascetic, an austere moderniser who has pulled his country back from its descent into barbarism and overseen reforms aimed at improving its governance and boosting the economy.
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Jude Law pays Pius XIII (born Lenny Belardo), a newly elected pope possessed of pure, ascetic good looks: His flawless complexion is exquisitely complemented by his snow-white cassock and its fine gold trim.
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Her stoicism in the face of cancer had led hospital workers to call her "the fakir," an Arabic word for monk or ascetic — one who is self-sufficient and in need only of God.
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But this one had been repaired and was "less ascetic and more decorative" than those other examples, according to Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christie's co-chairman of Impressionist and modern art, who is based in London.
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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.
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A divisive politician and Hindu ascetic, Adityanath recently became chief minister of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, which, at 200 million, has more people than all but a handful of the world's nations.
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It posited two highly dynamic 220-year-old martial artists who shared a compelling—almost yin/yang-like—symmetry between them: the quiet ascetic and the boisterous showman, traditional against modern, San Francisco vs.
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The issue for me is that this ancient ascetic ethos—the notion that we have to consume far less in order to refine our souls and save the world—continues to grow in cultural clout.
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An ascetic tome this is not: The novel is full of sex of dubious consent, all sorts of force-feeding and purging — essentially sexual assault and eating disorders, but never by name in Han's universe.
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It looks like either the dank dungeon of a sloppy hoarder, or the spartan cell of an ascetic prisoner — we're not sure which, we're just trying to cover as broad a spectrum as possible here.
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They live simple, ascetic lives and work the land for sustenance, but they also leave bottles of their own blood sitting outside their rooms at night, and talk reverently about the sea making decisions for them.
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Egypt, the birthplace of Christian monasticism, is home to some of the world&aposs most ancient monasteries, nestled in the country&aposs barren desert and which have drawn monks for centuries to lead solitary ascetic lives.
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Shortly after its founding, however, Asahara believed he had been selected by the Hindu god Shiva to create a utopian society and set about trying to elect members of his ascetic cult to the Japanese government.
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Many of the students saw art-making as an almost monastic endeavor and became followers of the Swiss Professor Johannes Itten—a self-styled Zoroastrian mystic with a shaved head and fondness for wearing ascetic tunics.
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To imagine lifestyle choices making a substantial dent in global warming is to imagine a goodly portion of the world's rich people voluntarily living a lifestyle that is relatively ascetic even by US middle-class standards.
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He cut a frail, somewhat ascetic figure: He stopped drinking alcohol after having abdominal surgery for ulcers in 1973, and later gave up chocolate, which was described as his one indulgence, after learning he had diabetes.
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These figures cobble together pieces of the old orthodoxies, take out the inconvenient bits and pitch them to mass audiences that want part of the old-time religion but nothing too unsettling or challenging or ascetic.
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Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism and is home to some of the world&aposs most ancient monasteries, which have drawn monks for centuries to lead solitary ascetic lives in the country&aposs vast barren landscape.
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It feels like an ascetic practice, seeing through trial and error how much creativity you can put into the music within the restrictions of chiptune, such as its sound, polyphony, and the processing power of the CPU.
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But it is deliberately agnostic about final things, what awaits beyond the shores of this world, and it is skeptical of the idea that there exists some ascetic, world-denying moral standard to which we should aspire.
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Among other things, the Jesuits shaped his ascetic tastes, aversion to embellishment and determination to resist the cult of personality — to the extent he refused to sign autographs for school children during his early terms as governor.
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As we arrived, we could see images of the dead fighter's face — lean and ascetic, with short dark hair — being held aloft on posters; relatives also handed out stamp-size pictures for guests to pin on their lapels.
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She is a nomad, constantly shuttling between countries, but she is also an ascetic: Her work bristles with things, everyday objects that we all accumulate over a rooted existence, but her own life is stripped clean of possessions.
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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.
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Renowned for an ascetic lifestyle and recognized by his long white beard and traditional black cap, Edhi was a hero to the poor but infuriated some religious leaders for his refusal to give preferential treatment to Muslims above minorities.
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Perhaps the curators are right to avoid an overwhelming sense of doom and gloom, but the show does not prompt the viewer to consider how attitudes towards eating—whether gluttonous and globalised or ascetic and local—affect the environment.
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Janet's therapist asked her about her childhood and concluded that she was a moral ascetic with a rigid superego, but, in what she recognized as an undisciplined moment for a Freudian, he suggested that she might leave her husband.
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But procrastination is a different business altogether: It is not only more available, but also more dynamic, just as the procrastinator is a more dramatic figure than the idler, who is as ascetic and immobile as a pillar saint.
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Like many of his contemporaries in Brooklyn's burgeoning techno scene, he approaches his productions with a similar flair for the ominous, freakier sides of dance music, with releases on notable labels including Ascetic House, Unknown Precept, and Bank NYC.
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RAM is an organization founded in 1985 by Stan Brock, a former actor and ascetic servant of the poor; according to a profile in The Independent in 2014, Brock slept on a "cowboy's mat inside the offices" of RAM.
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While Japan wrestled with complicated issues of modernization and heritage, its culture was understood in the West though clichéd binaries: The ascetic Zen of a rock garden on one hand, the gleeful kitsch of Hello Kitty on the other.
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The ascetic, Naga Baba Prayagrajgiri, had twice before joined the throngs of Hindu worshipers who flock to Prayagraj every six years to pray and bathe at the confluence of India's great rivers — two of them worldly, the third divine.
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BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - A Hindu ascetic accused of plotting a bomb attack on Muslims in India defeated an opposition strongman by a big margin on Thursday as her ruling Hindu nationalist party won a massive victory in the country's general election.
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The vast stretches of homorhythm — in which the guitar, bass and drums match individual syllables of the droning lyrics — create the sort of ominous ascetic feeling that I associate with chanting the Great Litany from my childhood in the Episcopal Church.
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When, at 29, Siddhartha stepped outside, he was confronted with the sight of the aged, the diseased and the dead, an experience that shook him so powerfully that he left his father's home the following day, embracing life as an ascetic.
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Tolstoy's novella "The Kreutzer Sonata" is a bad book, I think, not because it is the work of a nutty Christian ascetic, but because its nutty Christian asceticism has stamped out everything generous and curious and noticing in Tolstoy's imagination.
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Which is part of what makes the fully-formed emergence of Pain of Mind—released on Ascetic House because, as he told The Wire, so as to "not take up space on the PTP platform with my own stuff"—so surprising.
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These portraits of the progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel are spryer and less mystical than Zurbarán's more Caravaggesque — and more famous — tortured saints, like the ascetic, cloaked St. Francis kneeling in sepulchral darkness in the National Gallery of London.
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But this gives him an idealized, airbrushed image of Hinduism and India, which he views en saffron, the color of the robes of ascetics and hence originally a symbol of ascetic Hinduism — but nowadays an emblem of right-wing, nationalist Hinduism.
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And since for them gender functioned only to define the partner of a married couple who fathered or mothered children, many ascetic women imagined themselves to have exceeded their femininity altogether, and they communicated this by dressing in men's garb.
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His practical proposals include turning the home into "a domestic monastery" with regular family prayer and ascetic routines, home-schooling if Christian alternatives are unavailable, and creating like-minded neighbourhoods of cultural self-defence that "buy Christian, even if it costs more".
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Such allusions —along with those to his childhood memories of the comestibles unloaded on the docks of his native Piraeus — point to the myriad ways in which Kounellis's work has long eschewed the ascetic strictures attendant upon the 1960s exploration of objecthood.
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BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - For nearly a decade, Pragya Thakur was known mostly as the saffron-clad Hindu ascetic shuttling in and out of Indian courts, flanked by police, facing charges under an anti-terrorism law for plotting a bomb attack on Muslims.
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An ascetic who survives on black tea and a ferocious exercise regime, Mr Cai bemoans the fact that Chinese contemporary artists are often judged by just two measures: their take on the one-party system or the record prices their work fetches at auction.
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He later became a monk and priest, as well as a hermit and an ascetic, fleeing the machinations of Rome, where he was denounced for sexual impropriety with a female follower, for the Syrian desert near Antioch, where he practiced penance and self-mortification.
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When the police came, the trespassers were praying in the parking lot, led by two middle-aged men in clerical collars: the big, craggy Philip, a decorated hero of World War II, and the ascetic Daniel, waiting peacefully to be led into the van.
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Olivia Laing, in her 2013 "The Trip to Echo Spring," also considers Berryman and Carver, arguing, like Jamison, that no such relationship between drinking and writing is necessary: that sobriety and creativity might be the new paradigm — a newly ascetic one — for lasting art.
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For if it is fact that a kind of excess often accompanies the making of art, then there's another kind of excess — less cinematic, for sure — that seems closer to the point: Artists, even the hedonistic ones, are fundamentally, one might say excessively, ascetic.
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Mr. Hanoun, born in Tunis, Tunisia, settled in France after World War II. "A Simple Story," his first 221-millimeter feature, was made for TV and praised by Jean-Luc Godard as a synthesis of Robert Bresson's ascetic technique and Italian neorealism's social content.
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He often described a life in food service to be ascetic and maniacal—a true single-minded dedication to the culinary arts that supersedes any concerns over low pay, long hours, mental and physical health, and I think that's where his roguish vigor was most apparent.
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Oddly, his emphasis throughout—influenced, it seems, by ascetic Eastern religious ideas to which he was exposed—was on the idea that Uranians were less sensual than "mulierasts," or straight men, and that their lack of erotic appetite made them historically responsible for the advance of civilization.
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A prophet can be played as a beatific ascetic, but this Samuel is the polar opposite: wild-eyed and somewhat scary, the kind of fellow who when he sits down next to you at a bar causes you to finish your drink in a gulp and leave.
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This was not the fate of Chavez, who is today still admired for carrying out a centuries-old ascetic practice, nor of Mohandas Gandhi — nor for that matter, Jesus Christ, who in the Bible is said to have fasted for 40 days and nights in the desert.
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Clearly, there's an appetite for this content in a post-Jiro world, as Terada has managed to shed the stereotype of the brutally serious and ascetic sushi chef, garnering more than 770,000 subscribers and 130 million views on YouTube in the process, thanks, in part, to the Big Mac.
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While the Islamic Center had championed an ascetic and rigid form of Islam that had only modest appeal to young people who liked to drink alcohol and carouse at night, Mr. Zerkani, Belgian investigators said, was able to bridge the divide by channeling the criminal energies of young delinquents.
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As Ally attempts to study the treatment of mental illness in an era when the allegedly insane are left to molder in abusive institutions, she begins to regress herself, recalling harsh memories of life with her relentlessly ascetic mother and neglectful father and the tragic loss of her sister.
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He was a revolutionary who didn't wear camouflage fatigues; a ruthless and murderous dictator who spent evenings in his earlier years in the State House curled up with his wife and a Graham Greene novel; an ascetic loner with a passion for learning and an insatiable hunger for power.
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Click here to view original GIFGOP presidential candidate and sweater ascetic Jeb Bush's emotional register on the campaign trail hovers between "mildly deflated" to "moderately chagrined"—but LOOK at how his eyes light up as he realizes that the expensive and impractical gadget he's been wearing can make phone calls.
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In India he belongs to the lineage of ascetic saints who have never ceased in the eyes of vast numbers of Hindus to represent the highest form of human life on earth; his title of the Mahatma makes him heir to a great company of religious teachers, mystics and devotees.
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Emboldened to add her own imprint to her acre of property, DeCourcy tore down the shed and built in its place what she calls her "house by the pool," an ultraminimalist aerie that's a physical manifestation of both the stillness she seeks each summer and Shelter Island's own ascetic predispositions.
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In Hilary Mantel's popular novels about Reformation England, "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," the figure of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's enforcer, is presented as a sympathetic proto-modern alternative to the dueling zealotries of popery and Calvinism — more broad-minded and humane and secular, less bigoted and ascetic.
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"Ben Kingsley's performance as Gandhi, aging 50 years in three hours, from dapper, status-conscious lawyer to emaciated ascetic in a loin-cloth, is certainly as fine as anything Muni ever did, and likely to take its place among the cinema's great historic portraits," the Guardian wrote at the time.
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Whatever the exact course of events, the monks' stoical reaction to the incident is a reminder of the astonishing resilience of a community that was founded during the reign of Emperor Justinian, in the sixth Christian century, in a spot where hardy individuals had been pursuing the ascetic life for hundreds of years.
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Modernism was a failure: It destroyed the fabric of cities under the auspices of urban renewal, it forced an ascetic style onto the American people who, in their homes and places of commerce, were devoted to a sprawl that tended aesthetically toward the traditional, much to the chagrin of Architecture writ large.
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I'm told by the gallery's project coordinator that Schweger modeled these paintings on the libraries at the University College London, which were just up the road from me when I was in London working on my dissertation at Birkbeck College, daily burying myself in the lonely and ascetic warrens of Senate House Library.
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Instead, she mostly seems frustrated that Sanders has maintained his image as an economy-class-flying ascetic, when his campaign has raised, albeit mostly from small donors, an extraordinary amount of money—forty-six million dollars in March, compared with twenty-nine and a half million for Clinton—and has spent it profligately.
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In the charged electoral atmosphere, one of Modi's most prominent Hindu nationalist allies, the controversial Hindu ascetic turned chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, suggested that the Indian armed forces were in fact Modi's forces -- a remark that invited censure from India's electoral authorities, but which also underlined the thrust of the BJP campaign.
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You may not guess it given their past orbiting experimental scenes as part of the Ascetic House label/collective—that crew tends to shun outright ecstasy in favor of something a little more insular and strange—but their synth exercises skew big, bombastic, erotic, and emotional in a way that can feel all-consuming.
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When two Romanesque sculptures, "Virgin and Child in Majesty" and "Enthroned Virgin and Child" were installed at the Cloisters on either side of an ensemble by Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren for Viktor & Rolf, I found myself contrasting the rhythmic but otherwise ascetic carving of the two ancient works with the glittering textures of the lavish garments.
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After the attacks of September 21992, 21995, he came to be known in Les Izards as "Ben Ben," after Osama bin Laden, whose ascetic religious doctrine was then of no interest to him—he went to prostitutes, drank alcohol, snorted cocaine, and smoked hashish, which he apparently also sold—but whose grand spectacle of murder evidently was.
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If there's anything we've learned, surely, from the Weinstein nightmare — and from prep schools and Penn State and NBC and Donald Trump's payoffs and a million other examples — it's that cultures that enable sexual abuse and predation can be a problem no matter whether the environment is liberal or conservative, religious or secular, ascetic or sybaritic.
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The old saw about boxers, that they wouldn't expend a certain kind of energy before a bout — sexual energy, which would need to be hoarded if the fighter wanted to be at peak strength — aligns nicely with this notion, one in which the ascetic isn't starving herself so much as harnessing her powers, because power is a finite thing.
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" No. 251 Lima, Peru "This screwball fantasy — interwoven with a realistic tale of an improbable romance — is the Peruvian novelist Vargas Llosa's homage to two people who gave shape to his artistic and personal life during his adolescence: an ascetic Bolivian who all day, every day, wrote scripts for radio soap operas, and the author's Aunt Julia.
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Although well-informed critics have said that Putin is worth tens of billions of dollars and has twenty residences at his disposal, the program portrayed him as a near-ascetic, who wakes at eight-thirty, lifts weights, swims long distances, eats a modest breakfast (beet juice, porridge, raw quail eggs), and works deep into the night.
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That essay—recommended to me by the distinguished curator John Elderfield, who, together with Mary Morton and Xavier Rey, co-curated the National Gallery show—vivifies the ascetic passion of Cézanne: an awkward man of turbulent, half-strangled emotions, known to pause for twenty minutes between one brushstroke and the next, who set benchmarks of rigor and authenticity for artists ever after.
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In many ways this feels strikingly similar to Anuradha Roy's newest novel, "All the Lives We Never Lived," in which the adult Myshkin reflects on the course of his life, which was derailed when his brilliant and frustrated Bengali mother fled with her German lover in the late 1930s, abandoning him and his father, an Anglo-Indian academic turned freedom-fighting ascetic.
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Once she converted to Catholicism, she zealously pursued a platform that included the distributist theory of broad property ownership, racial equality, pacifism, safeguarding the rights of organized labor and environmentalism — a robust agenda to be put into effect through direct support for the poor and homeless, rural communes upstate, ascetic retreats, social services, aggressive advocacy and, when necessary, civil disobedience.
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Of Boulez's hundred and fifty or so recordings, I especially prize his hot-blooded Cleveland Orchestra account of "The Rite of Spring" on Sony; his commanding version of the three-act version of "Lulu," on D.G.; his ruthless reading of Mahler's Sixth Symphony; and just about every record he made of the music of Ravel, whom he obscurely resembled—two ascetic sensualists in communion.
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