Word: asceticism
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> Yaqub-Khan, 56, a trim, ascetic retired lieutenant general in the Pakistan army and its former chief of staff. Familiar with battle scenes, he was twice captured while serving with the British Indian army in World War II-and escaped both times. He is a four-goal international polo player...
Thanks to Manet's etchings and a few haunting daguerreotypes, the poet's face is more familiar than his work. Eyes: piercing and "as brilliant as drops of coffee," to borrow Baudelaire's own phrase. Face: as angled with cutting edges as an ascetic on a fast...
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written, most scholars agree, by the Essenes, a mysterious, ascetic Jewish sect that was wiped out by the Romans about A.D. 70. The scrolls, slightly older than the New Testament, were hidden in some caves at Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea...
The alert people watchers might even have caught sight of Ted Sorensen-lean, cerebral, ascetic-moving mysteriously through the Potomac power basin toward his new headquarters at the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Kennedy intellectual left Washington in 1964-lean, cerebral, ascetic.
Three years ago, Libya's ascetic, rabidly anti-Western President Muammar Gaddafi flew into a rage about a mild satire of himself printed by the Turin daily La Stampa. He threatened to have Fiat, the Italian megacompany that owns La Stampa, put on the Arab boycott list unless it...