Words similar to asceticism

Example sentences for: asceticism

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

Since Günter Grass won his Nobel Prize a week ago, critics have argued that Grass' political views make him a parody of a left-wing German intellectual: Who can take seriously a man who mourns the lost asceticism of East Germany?
The LAT notes that Regan tried and failed to land the Lewinsky book, but didn't mention that Regan's commitment to asceticism and deep contemplation included publishing Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.
New York 's Walter Kirn dissents from the pack, complaining of McKibben's books in general--"his combination of arrogance and sincerity, narcissism and asceticism, is riveting and infuriating at once"--and of this book in specific--"The thesis is ancient and hard to argue with, though something in McKibben's pious manner may make one want to try."
I begin to wonder whether fondness for gambling correlates with general indulgence, and dislike correlates with asceticism, and decide that they probably do.)
Within the monarchies, thinkers took to the asceticism which has characterized spiritual life in India.