Example sentences for: ascetic

How can you use “ascetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The latter was built by Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa to split and counteract the powerful influence of Nishi-Honganji, which had attracted thousands of followers with its free-wheeling Buddhism: it allowed priests to marry and have children, permitted the eating of meat, and renounced traditional ascetic practices.

  • Was he a "sheeted ascetic & do-gooder" or a "major influence" on mass movements everywhere?

  • Members are portrayed as ascetic and hard-nosed, men you can respect even if you don't agree with them.

  • 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.

  • But the life of an ascetic and the wisdom of Hindu teachers did not satisfy his quest.


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