ascetic's

His photographs were published broadcast, and special writers exploited his strong, bronzed face, his scars, his heavy shoulders, his clear, quiet eyes, and the slight hollows in his cheeks like an ascetic's.

Chapter 45 2010

Abroad, Montblanc, the Swiss penmaker, with its eye on the potential buyers in India, commemorated Mahatma Gandhi with a $23,000 pen engraved with the ascetic's image.

A Clunker of a Year 2009

Schopenhauer recognizes a positive content to the ascetic's mystical experience, although he regards the experience as ineffable.

Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007

The mainstream Protestant position on asceticism, first, was that as a purported imitation of Christ's sufferings on the cross, it confused a purely personal choice with a divinely mandated sacrifice true suffering is always sent by God; and, second, that by undermining the ascetic's health, it also interfered with his or her duties to the larger community.

The Little Professor: 2007

From a related angle, the ascetic's struggle is a struggle against the forces of violence and evil, which, owing to Schopenhauer's acceptance and interpretation of Kant's epistemology, locates these forces significantly within human nature itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007

This peculiarity notwithstanding, the ascetic's struggle is none other than a supreme struggle against human nature.

Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007

The diet served to reduce the ascetic's body fat dramatically, and as fat decomposes quickly after death, it increased the chances of successful mummification.

Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

The mainstream Protestant position on asceticism, first, was that as a purported imitation of Christ's sufferings on the cross, it confused a purely personal choice with a divinely mandated sacrifice true suffering is always sent by God; and, second, that by undermining the ascetic's health, it also interfered with his or her duties to the larger community.

Details, details 2007

In the second 1000 day period, the ascetic's diet became even more limited: only bark and the roots of pine tree were ingested.

Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

This feature of the ascetic's commitment, it will seem to many, is generally shared by our moral commitments.

Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007