Word: asceticism
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During his active years, Niebuhr was a 17-hour-a-day dynamo who kept students breathless with rapid, challenging lectures and intense conversations in his unostentatious, book-lined office in the seminary tower. He lived a disciplined, mildly ascetic life and produced 17 major books, plus a torrent of trenchant...
For almost 30 years, flamboyant Prince Norodom Sihanouk was revered as a "god-king" by what he called his "7,000,000 little Buddhas." Now it seems as if the same role has fallen, unbidden, upon ascetic Premier Lon Nol. Soon after he resigned last month, still semi-paralyzed in...
Shrii Sarkar attained full realization of his mission at the age of four, and acknowledged it by accepting his first disciples at six. Now the number of disciples has grown to more than five million, and he guides them through the agency of some 2000 Acharvas. He is now married...
The picture had hung for years above the fireplace of a cottage in the Thames side village of Bray: a long-nosed, sallow ascetic with a scarred mouth, dressed in fur-trimmed doublet and dark scholar's cloak. A gold halo and inscription announce him to be St. Ivo...
Gillis's words are remarkably similar to those of a lot of people who try to describe Jon Enscoe. The interesting thing about him is that he doesn't seem to fit the stereotype of the Vitalis all-star. He doesn't look, talk or act like one. He's...