ascetic
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Ascetic, observant and karmic are three words that describe my essence.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023
Ascetic in outline, but suffused with a warm humanity, their pieces are studded with minor epiphanies on the way to a larger sense of emotional fulfilment.
From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2010
Ascetic, 52-year-old Charles de Provench�res, Archbishop of Aix and president of the National Commission on Religious Education, addressed himself to the third major problem of French Catholicism: the growing religious illiteracy of youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ascetic Bachelor Gomes, an oldtime Army man, neither smokes nor drinks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kant's chapter on the Ascetic Exercise of Ethics is a fine defence of that training of the heart and mind which has no affinity with the morbid discipline of hair shirt and scourge.
From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)
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