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spartanism

noun as in austerity

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Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he remade the Trask household, and Adam gave him no opposition.

Granted, it’s an honorable soliloquy from a Dance Music Hall of Fame inductee, but the spartanism of a spoken word segment – especially one that sounds like Werner Herzog waxing poetic over the Drive soundtrack — three tracks deep into the album is a roadblock and diminished return upon subsequent replays that could be better positioned at the very start or end of the record.

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In his overflowing bliss he often cast the spartanism of the movement to the winds, and now he was bent upon indulging himself in the “romanticism” of having his wedding proclaimed at a gathering of his most intimate friends.

New designs often emphasize the penny-pinching Spartanism that pioneering architects borrowed from industrial buildings.

Yet that sort of spartanism paid off in a performance�under the brilliant direction of Sir Carol Reed�which delivered astonishing proof that her talents were more than physical.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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