Word: asceticism
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The Sept. 6 issue, for example, contained, in addition to the usual weekly supply of short excerpts from the foreign press, the following surplusage: Early Writings of Lewis Carroll (8 pp.), Memories of Fashoda (11 pp.), Francis of Cardona: A Cheerful Ascetic (7 pp.), The Formality of France (7 pp...
"I believe that when we speak of God most undergraduates think we mean a stern and forbidding elderly schoolmaster, extreme to mark what is done amiss; or else a grim king on a throne, who is more concerned with sins than with the people who commit them; or else (to...
Philip Snowden, the "ascetic, intellectual type of burning enthusiast," "a frail figure of a man who walks with a stick,"- "the man with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to...
Eleutherios is a big man, ascetic, energetic, persuasive. He has lived a life of extreme simplicity and self-abnegation; has worked as many as 16 to 18 hours a day; has proved himself to be expert in handling crowds, without resorting to the tricks of oratory. Once he and his...
Dr. Kammerer, 43 years old, of spare physique, has finely chiseled, ascetic features and the charming manner of an artist.