ascetic

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He was neither financially stable nor ascetic enough to commit to the artist’s lot without the remarkable self-sacrifice of his wife, Annalee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Her jury ended up awarding one: Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Celebration,” the first and, ultimately, best feature to emerge from the ascetic, anti-effects movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

In early Christianity, spiritual warfare meant one was to resist the Devil by engaging in forms of ascetic behavior, mastering fleshly desires, and cultivating Christian virtues like humility, self-control, and love of enemies.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

To become a sokushinbutsu, he began living in seclusion where he ate an ascetic diet of pine needles for nearly a decade.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

I am still a Samana, he thought, still an ascetic and a beggar.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse