Sentence examples for bodily discipline from inspiring English sources

One of the slides in her presentation was titled "Bodily Discipline: Foucault + Snooki = BFF".

Physical movement sequences are undermined by the lack of bodily discipline of non-dancers; spoken passages, likewise, by the insufficiently nuanced acting.

For Noxon and Collins to fascinate viewers, they must draw from the poisonous worship of bodily discipline and deprivation that already surrounds young women like air.

That the press singled out the regulating of sexual desire as the most telling feature of Applewhite's regime of bodily discipline reflects the distinctly modern conviction that sexuality--and especially sexual dysfunction--is at the core of the self.

By physical and intellectual labour, bodily discipline, and meditation, the spirit can serve God and find tranquillity through an inner experience of the divine presence in the form of a vision of light.

has been a conspicuous figure here & in Paris, where he presides over the Akademia Raymond Duncan, in which instructio is given in practically all branches of the arts & crafts, as well as in a system of bodily discipline known as "Actionalism".

In place of the traditional Christian stress on bodily restraint and discipline, Bentham sought, like many other 18th-century philosophers, to promote the benefits of economic consumption, the enjoyment of worldly appetites and the liberty of natural passions.

The problem is that the show tries to compensate for that conformity by testing boundaries in the dicey areas of discipline and bodily functions.

How, for instance, can the pious affirm the sanctity of the human body while urging people to discipline their bodily desires?

Beard, who we are encouraged to believe won a Nobel prize in physics as a young man for something called the Beard-Einstein Conflation, is a short, fat, balding, much-married man of immense bodily appetites and scant self-discipline.

Although we did not find evidence that former Olympic athletes from disciplines involving high intensity exercise have a higher mortality risk than other former Olympians, people should think for a moment before engaging in disciplines with risk of bodily collision or fierce physical contact.