self-deprivation

For Muslims, the holy month combines self-deprivation, religious reflection and charity for the poor with festive celebrations as families break the sunrise-to-sunset fast with iftar, the evening meal.

Given the right combination of solitude and neglect, hunger can just as easily morph into self-deprivation.

With a more mature and pro-science Joe Biden in the White House, we finally have a chance to talk about pandemic restrictions like adults, instead of as an endless test of tribalist loyalties proved by, depending on your party, performing recklessness or treating quarantine like it's a self-deprivation contest.

Self-deprivation could, after all, be rebranded as a form of vanity, of narcissism, of immoderation — taking more than one’s due by another script.

In a huge altarpiece, dramatic lighting calls attention to the sagging, wrinkled skin of St. Jerome, an early Christian ascetic who practiced penitential acts of self-deprivation and self-harm.