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Example sentences for: ascetic

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Kasimir Malevich, for example, was also concerned with geometry and with purifying art of baggage such as color, but his Suprematism had its origin in an ascetic spirituality.
He, too, abandoned riches to become an ascetic.
Was he a "sheeted ascetic & do-gooder" or a "major influence" on mass movements everywhere?
You would think that cultivating a taste for such ascetic modes of enjoyment would be at least as effective a diet strategy as glorifying blubber, but Klein fails to entertain this possibility.
The very remoteness of Tohoku was appealing to such religious groups as the Zen Buddhists, who espouse an ascetic, unworldly life and constructed some of the country’s finest Buddhist temples in this northern part of Honshu.