asceticism
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There’s an asceticism to bespoke suit making that can be found in the religion as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
In the Jain family, his close friend Madhav Dhar said, “there was an ethos of hard work, integrity, asceticism, not being outrageous, not being lavish, and a tremendous focus on education.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Attempting asceticism sets patients up for a phenomenon known as the abstinence violation effect, where a minor lapse turns into a huge binge, because people believe they've already blown their recovery anyway.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2022
Environmental asceticism clearly has very limited political appeal in this country, and it will have even less abroad for consumers eager to attain lifestyles Americans take for granted.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2021
Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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