Sentence examples for as renunciation from inspiring English sources

But reluctance isn't the same as renunciation.

The theme known as Renunciation of Love first sounds in "Das Rheingold," when Alberich forswears love and thereby gains access to the magic gold.

'His modern pact with the devil gives him access to every human experience, but only as an object of enjoyment from which he must detach himself in the moment of consuming it.' This is enjoyment as renunciation.

All share common non-Vedic practices (such as renunciation itself and various Yogic meditational techniques) and doctrines (such as the belief in rebirth and the goal of liberation from perpetual transmigration), but Buddhists and Jains do not accept the authority of the Vedic tradition and therefore, with some exceptions, are regarded as less than orthodox by Hindus.

The first critical biography of Gaudí to appear, this book belongs to the history of Catholic renunciation as well as the history of the building art.

In Peronist rhetoric, this event has come to be referred to as "The Renunciation", portraying Evita as having been a selfless woman in line with the Hispanic myth of marianismo.

I would explain forgiveness as the renunciation of anger, resentment, and/or indignation as a result of a perceived offence.

This kind of critique was much too often greeted as a renunciation of goals rather than an inquiry as to means.

Further riling the Palestinians, he publicly endorsed Israel's demand to be recognised as a Jewish state, which Palestinians take as an renunciation of what they claim is a UN-sanctioned right of refugees to return.Mr Obama's denunciation of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, could further cost Mr Abbas the domestic buy-in he needs to return to the table.

Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.

He isn't an answer to old debates so much as a renunciation of them.