In Females, the metaphor for desire shifts to self-abnegation or submission.
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But hiding only led to more shame, and shame to self-abnegation.
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Narratives of female self-mutilation, conversely, tend to veer towards self-abnegation and self-annihilation.
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Faye's absence reads like the self-abnegation of a soul trying to atone for something.
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Those works stand at the extreme of a consecrated self-abnegation that governs all her art.
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The spectacle of self-abnegation in a higher cause is both fascinating and to some observers, a bit suspicious.
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Greatness, in the context of the administration's economic ideology, is built on a ground laid thick with self-abnegation.
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In looking at the world before him and painting what he sees, Downes reconciles monkish self-abnegation with complete surrender.
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A glamorous back-to-nature exercise in pricey self-abnegation has become the logical way to spend one's leisure time.
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For others, a drink is a way to rebel against a culture in which good parenting is synonymous with self-abnegation.
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As "Endlings" alternates between the young playwright's self-absorption and the old divers' self-abnegation, the tone eventually spirals into surrealism.
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The trend manages to cram a tremendous number of tedious affectations into tight quarters: design fetishism, ostentatious minimalism, costly self-abnegation.
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He states that Baldwin's "self-abnegation" prevents him from embracing Bach or Rembrandt, who Cole insists do not belong to one race.
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The more reasons we're given to doubt whether Coenraad even exists, the more Shirley seems implicated in her own romanticized self-abnegation.
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Mr. Bernhard's choice of Gould as the talent that triggers suicidal thoughts in Wertheimer and bitter self-abnegation in the narrator was fascinating.
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It's an alluring performance, pitched between leathery guardedness and vulnerability, and spiked with the genial self-abnegation that defined Hugh Grant's early career.
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It is not just an environmental problem alongside all the others—and absolutely not one that can be solved by hair-shirt self-abnegation.
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European culture has been diminished by a mixture of self-abnegation and political correctness, while declining Christian values have left most western European countries unmoored.
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Such instances of artistic self-abnegation have been eclipsed in the US by a Protestant Reductivist Modernist juggernaut hellbent on upholding the values of production.
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The old men who spend all their waking moments trying to veil women are themselves responding to the self-hatred that comes from self-abnegation.
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It's so easy to believe the notion that having a baby demands complete and total self-abnegation, and anything short of that is not enough.
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Rather, the narrative is more concerned with how this person, who is supremely even-keeled to the point of self-abnegation, gets to her breaking point.
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But she is also always full of warnings about the self-abnegation it requires, especially of women — and never more clearly than in this new novel.
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We no longer need the myth of female self-abnegation or palatable feminine reticence to revere her as an author, a woman or a woman author.
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Tending toward a vivid grimness and a certain macho angst, these animations meditate on the alienating effects of technology, terrorism, modern travel and good old self-abnegation.
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His studio, however—a ramshackle quonset hut—suggests a certain self-abnegation, particularly compared with the office that he built for Cusk, in an annex to the main house.
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Cindy Sherman has all but owned costumed self-abnegation for decades, but Wilson and Campagnano were doing it while she was still studying at Buffalo State College, where Lake was a direct influence.
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A faith-based coalition spearheaded by the World Council of Churches called on the world's governments to "fast from carbon" and hence apply the religious ideal of self-abnegation and asceticism on a planetary scale.
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Is there a sadder self-abnegation in literature than Mildred's dejected laundry-hamper admission that hers are "just the kind of underclothes a person like me might wear, so there is no need to describe them"?
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In the mid-25000th century, according to some accounts, the precocious Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi clandestinely fit herself with a crown of thorns and began whipping herself when she was only 143 years old to practice religious self-abnegation.
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I'm not sure if I could live in Japan for more than a week, what with all the appreciating of teeny porcelain objects and self-abnegation, but "Awakening Your Ikigai" is really quite a delightful look at sometimes mystifying Japanese traditions.
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That sign-holding child—as stunning an example of self-abnegation made concrete as I've ever seen—is a running visual touchstone throughout the film, the straitened circumstances of black children of the period, whose days have been seized by white landowners before they were born.
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Today, the themes that made the epic required reading for generations of emperors and generals, and for the clerics and teachers who groomed them—the inevitability of imperial dominance, the responsibilities of authoritarian rule, the importance of duty and self-abnegation in the service of the state—are proving to be an embarrassment.
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Veering between mawkish sentimentality on the one hand and indulgence in video-game war porn on the other, the country could no longer appreciate as it once did the martial virtues, which are not unbridled ferocity but rather discipline, self-abnegation, perseverance and loyalty to a constitutional order rather than to a president.
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My father, a strong believer in self-abnegation to the point that you were causing yourself and others pain for absolutely no reason at all except to satisfy your own stubbornness, had an unshakeable prejudice against cable television at a time when the Yankees were migrating increasing numbers of their games away from over-the-air stations.
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Ross Douthat Now that the Republican Party has beclowned itself on health care, now that Obamacare repeal lies in rubble, now that every G.O.P. policy person who ever championed a replacement plan is out wandering in sackcloth and ashes, wailing, "The liberals were right about my party, the liberals were right about my party," beneath a harsh uncaring heaven … now, in these hours of right-wing self-abnegation, it's worth raising once again the most counterintuitive and frequently scoffed-at point that conservatives have made about Obamacare: It probably isn't saving many lives.
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His courage, self- abnegation, and patience in the face of persecution and adversity make him one of the noblest figures of the Catholic episcopate during the 18th century.
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Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, (c. 380c. 449) was a high-born and high- ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. Henry Wace ranked him "except perhaps St. Irenaeus the most distinguished occupant of that see".
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In the Antebellum Era, daughters aimed to serve their fathers and practiced self-abnegation. Up until the incident in Paris, Constance followed this familial model, which is only conveyed at the end of the play when Constance instantly rekindles her love and respect for her father after he shows her the note.
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Likewise Helena Petrovna Blavatsky founded in 1875 the Theosophical Society in New York. She acted on assignment of her Teachers, indicated by the name of 'Masters of Wisdom and Compassion'. With the knowledge they supplied, a foundation was laid for the Twentieth Century thinking. H.P. Blavatsky died in 1891 after many years of self-abnegation, disappointment, revilement and physical suffering.
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The question is on the nature of happiness: is it self-knowledge, self-abnegation, or self-determination? Miss Blake encourages them to work hard, to be exceptional, to think for themselves, all in aid of advancing the cause of women's rights to graduate. The boys assemble to hear a lecture by the eminent physician, Dr Maudsley. The arrival of the women causes a stir.
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According to Usman Harooni, a great man is one who is endowed with virtues such as contentment, sincerity, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and above all, spirit of renunciation. He said that the ego was an enemy, as it did not allow rational thought, wise actions and a happy life. He emphasized that unless a man loves human beings, it is impossible for him to love God.
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John's spiritual method of inner purgation along the 'negative way' was an enormous influence on T. S. Eliot when he came to write the Four Quartets. John's poem contains these famous lines of self-abnegation leading to spiritual rebirth: To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing. To come to possession in all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.
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They are renowned for their plain architecture and furniture. The Shaker movement peaked in the 1840s, but gradually dwindled, perhaps because of greater employment opportunities offered by the Industrial Revolution, or because succeeding generations grew less tolerant of the Shaker church's insistence on self-abnegation. Shirley Shaker Village closed in 1908. A medium-security state prison was built on land surrounding the remains of the Shaker village in Shirley, and continues to operate.
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Butler, xxxiv–xlii. Moreover, Austen's "heroines' subordinate role in the family ... their dutifulness, meditativeness, self-abnegation, and self-control" are characteristics shared by the heroines of conservative authors such as Jane West and Mary Brunton.Butler, xv–xvi. Enlightenment feminism, which includes such writers as Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft, is a tradition of thought that claims that "women share the same moral nature as men, ought to share the same moral status, and exercise the same responsibility for their conduct".
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He embarked on a lifelong commitment to philanthropy. His employees were well paid and received regular medical exams; he built schools, hospitals, and community kitchens; and he paid to support orphans and award scholarships. He also taught himself homeopathy and offered medical treatments to his employees. Francisco became increasingly engaged with Spiritism and in 1901 was convinced that the spirit of his brother Raúl, who had died at age 4, was communicating with him, urging him to do charity work and practice self- discipline and self-abnegation.
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Self-denial (related but different from self-abnegation or self-sacrifice) is an act of letting go of the self as with altruistic abstinence – the willingness to forgo personal pleasures or undergo personal trials in the pursuit of the increased good of another. Various religions and cultures take differing views of self-denial, some considering it a positive trait and others considering it a negative one. According to some Protestants, self- denial is considered a superhuman virtue only obtainable through Jesus. Some critics of self-denial suggest that self-denial can lead to self-hatred.
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During this period, he is known to have resorted to extreme measures of sense control which involve self-abnegation methods like fasting for months together (having just a cup of tea a day) while taking huge quantities of food at other times. During this time, he confined himself in a dark room with a lamp that used to be lit up at all times. He would often be found lying on bed while facing the wall. He did not allow very many people in his room during this period.
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Sagona's The Prisoner is a cycle about co-dependence exhibited at the Fondaco Gallery, Rome, in connection with the 13th edition of the Rome Film Fest. As Claire Messud writes in the essay on this work, “Codependent love entails a passionate devotion to the unrequited, a desire for self-abnegation. Its ironies are rife: how readily we give of ourselves, believing that eventually our sacrifices will be recognized; how thoroughly we put the needs and desires of the troubled before our own; how proud we are of our ability to stand in the heart of the flames, and burn”.
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Jung gives some examples of how consciousness becomes "inflated," which he defines as "an extension of the personality beyond individual limits, in other words, a state of being puffed up." This runs the gamut between megalomania and self-abnegation. Jung stresses the importance of maintaining the distinction between the personal and the collective, to maintain the integrity of the individual personality and allow it to grow in the individuation process. Next, Jung defines his concept of the persona, the social roles that a person performs, as a segment of the collective psyche that is incorrectly felt to be personal.
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Minhag America eliminated calls for a return to Israel and the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, the reinstitution of sacrifices and the restoration of the priesthood and the Davidic dynasty. References to resurrection were changed to reflect a spiritual immortality. When the Central Conference of American Rabbis released the Union Prayer Book in the 1890s, Wise had his own congregation abandon the siddur he had formulated and adopt the UPB, an act that Philipson described as "a remarkable act of self abnegation". Wise's example led many other congregations that had been using Minhag America to accept the switch to the Union Prayer Book.
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Self-denial in women is linked to cultural definitions of femininity which women have internalized to such an extent that self-abnegation had become basic to women's experience. Judith Plaskow observed this and argued that it was more linked to women than men because they were to follow this Christian virtue because of their detriment. Women are seen in a domestic perspective and self-denial puts all things women were once exposed to the side so they can be committed to their marriage and family. The way women are portrayed has not changed much throughout the years because the patriarchal perspective continues to be present.
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Accordingly, the Sith reject altruism, self-abnegation and kindness, as they regard such attitudes as founded on delusions that fetter one's perceptions and power. In connection with their philosophy, the Sith draw on the Dark Side of the Force through severe negative emotions, a technique antipodal to that of their archenemies, the Jedi, who rely on the Force's "light side," i.e., the Force as experienced through disciplined states of quietude and compassion. Notably, both the Jedi and Sith shun romantic and familial love, as the Jedi fear such love will lead to attachment, and thus selfishness, and the Sith fear it will compromise their ruthlessness and connection to the Dark Side of the Force.
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Eventually, this controversy led to a sectarian conflict in which the heterodox Jedi were defeated and exiled.Marvel Comics, Star Wars 9 – "Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon, Part II" In exile, the dissident Jedi were free to explore the relationship between passion and the Force. They concluded that the martial and ethical disciplines of the Jedi establishment were foolish and misguided: Passion, not quietude, was the most potent means of accessing the Force, and conflict, not peace, was the natural and healthy state of the universe. Rejecting the self-abnegation of their forebears, the exiles now embraced ruthless personal ambition, believing that power belonged to those with the cunning and strength to seize it.
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He was a disciple of Rabbi Mani II.Yerushalmi Pesachim 1 27d; Yerushalmi Moed Kattan 3 82c He gradually rose to his master's level and discussed with him as a "fellow student" many halakhic questions.Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 2 19d; Yerushalmi Shevuot 6 37b Eventually he moved to Sepphoris, where he became the religious head of the community; hence he is sometimes cited as Hanina of Sepphoris.Yerushalmi Nedarim 9 41b When Mani also moved to Sepphoris (due to Roman persecutions in Tiberias), Hanina resigned the leadership in his favor—an act of self- abnegation extolled by the Rabbis as having few parallels.Yerushalmi Pesachim 6 33aMANI, Jewish Virtual Library; Article Hanina, however, did not long remain in Palestine.
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For these early Afrocentrists, the goal was to break what they saw as a vicious cycle of the reproduction of black self-abnegation. In the words of The Crisis editor W. E. B. Du Bois, the world left African Americans with a "double consciousness," and a sense of "always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."Tejumola Olaniyan, "From Black Aesthetics to Afrocentrism" , West Africa Review, Issue 9 (2006). In his early years, W. E. B. Du Bois, researched West African cultures and attempted to construct a pan- Africanist value system based on West African traditions.
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Every Eid al-Adha once a year Muslims around the world slaughter an animal to commemorate Abraham's sacrifice and to remind themselves of self-abnegation in the way of Allah.Deeper Meaning of Sacrifice in Islam Later historiographic literature incorporates the Biblical narrative in which a ram is provided which is slaughtered instead of Ishmael. The actions of Ishmael in this narrative have led him to become a prominent model of hospitality and obedience. This story in the Quran is unique when compared to that in the Bible because Abraham talks with his son, whichever it is believed to be, and the son is thus aware of the plan to become a sacrifice and approves of it.
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In 2007, Ralf Sudau took the view that particular attention should be paid to the motifs of self-abnegation and disregard for reality. Gregor's earlier behavior was characterized by self-renunciation and his pride in being able to provide a secure and leisured existence for his family. When he finds himself in a situation where he himself is in need of attention and assistance and in danger of becoming a parasite, he doesn't want to admit this new role to himself and be disappointed by the treatment he receives from his family, which is becoming more and more careless and even hostile over time. According to Sudau, Gregor is self-denyingly hiding his nauseating appearance under the canapé and gradually famishing, thus pretty much complying with the more or less blatant wish of his family.
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Imperial Bedrooms opens with an acknowledgement from Clay, the main character, that both the Less Than Zero novel and its film adaptation are actual representational works within the narrative of his life: "The movie was based on a book by someone we knew... It was labeled fiction but only a few details had been altered and our names weren't changed and there was nothing in it that hadn't happened." The Los Angeles Times described this as a "nifty little trick", as it allows Ellis to establish the newer book "as the primary narrative, one that trumps Ellis as author and the real world." The San Francisco Chronicle calls it a "neat trick of authorial self-abnegation". Another reviewer describes it as Ellis at "his most ambitious", a "Philip Rothian, doppelgänger gambit", making his new narrator "the real Clay" and the other an imposter.
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The very abandon with which he > threw himself into whatever was going on exercised a captivating influence > and caused him to be sought as one who could always be relied on to give > animation to any occasion… (his) trick of self-abnegation seemed not only to > help him along but to cover over shortcomings, as it did when dismal failure > followed many of his enterprises… There was no one like Burnside." Thomas Jonathan Jackson Tidball and Jackson were assigned to the same company in the Corps of Cadets at West Point. They were of similar backgrounds, were both Presbyterian, were from the same section of Virginia (what is now West Virginia), and each spent most of their cadet careers as non-rank-holding cadet privates: > "In consequence of a somewhat shambling, awkward gait, and the habit of > carrying his head down in a thoughtful attitude, he seemed less of stature > than he really was. His features, without being homely, were rather strongly > marked.
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Tina Lu writes that the central theme of the story is personal identity—"the question of what a person is, from the specific perspective of the supernatural." She also notes that Pu is alluding to "one of the most famous passages from Mencius" on compassion and human nature: Mencius argues that the hypothetical and innately compassionate bystander observing the baby's fall is prompted to act by a "spontaneous sense of fellow-feeling"; Wang Liulang is not only driven by fellow-feeling, but also stands to lose his life by forgoing a chance at reincarnation. Lu suggests that Pu is questioning if Wang—who is not biologically human but displays much humanity by sparing the mother and child—should be regarded as more legitimate of a person than "people who are biologically human but not morally so". Ian McGreal cites Wang Liulang as "a very good example of a virtuous ghost", while a reviewer for Asiaweek writes that Pu is promoting "friendships that are based on unreserved self-abnegation".
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