selfdenying

Paul Krugman may long for the return of selfdenying corporate workers who declined to seek better opportunities out of organizational loyalty, and thus kept wages artificially suppressed, but these are creatures of a bygone ethos — an ethos that also included uncritical acceptance of racist and sexist traditions and often brutish intolerance of deviations from mainstream lifestyles and sensibilities.

Nostalgianomics Brink Lindsey 2009

This had a modest selfdenying appearance; but it soon turned out that as, by reason of the impossibility of standing the glass upright while there was anything in it, it required to be emptied as soon as filled, Mr Riderhood managed to drink in the proportion of three to one.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

As such, he lived a most selfdenying and mortified life, giving all he had to the poor.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

For every one that will be a disciple of Christ Jesus, must come into the selfdenying life, (you cannot have two Kingdomes43,) So my advice to you all is, stoop to Christs appearance in you, he who Invites all to come44 and learn of him, who is meek and lowly and you hall find rest for your souls.

A Testimony for Truth . . . 1655

Paul Krugman may long for the return of selfdenying corporate workers who declined to seek better opportunities out of organizational loyalty, and thus kept wages artificially suppressed, but these are creatures of a bygone ethos-an ethos that also included uncritical acceptance of racist and sexist traditions and often brutish intolerance of deviations from mainstream lifestyles and sensibilities.

US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha 2009

Paul Krugman may long for the return of selfdenying corporate workers who declined to seek better opportunities out of organizational loyalty, and thus kept wages artificially suppressed, but these are creatures of a bygone ethos-an ethos that also included uncritical acceptance of racist and sexist traditions and often brutish intolerance of deviations from mainstream lifestyles and sensibilities.

Little Miss Attila 2009

Mr. Gladstone was a man of great purity of character and life, of noble disinterestedness; was selfdenying, was deep in his religious thought and life, was great and commanding in his labours and in his eloquence; but to this day it would be impossible in England to evoke enthusiasm and gather it around the name and memory of William Ewart Gladstone as, voluntarily, it springs up and burns brightly around the name of Lord Beaconsfield.

Two Pillars of the Empire 1904