Sentence examples for in renunciation from inspiring English sources

It is about intense passion that lives on in renunciation.

In the end, Danae and the stripped-down Midas find conjugal happiness in poverty, and the wiser and ennobled Jupiter finds patriarchal dignity in renunciation.

Pressed finally to mend his ways or to become a monk in renunciation of his hereditary rights (1716), Alexis took refuge in the dominions of the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, but he was induced to return to Russia in 1718.

It is all about following God, depending on God, and worshiping God... in renunciation... in silence.

Kehrela Hodkinson, a US-immigration lawyer based in the United Kingdom, told me the first step in renunciation is determining if someone has US citizenship.

Yet, when the time and need arose years later, Sonia showed no compunctions in renunciation of the power of the prime minister and in hoisting a very deserving Dr. Man Mohan Singh, a Sikh, to that position without batting an eye lid.

The work of Cauchy (as well as that of Bolzano) represents a crucial stage in the renunciation by mathematicians adumbrated in the work of d'Alembert of (fixed) infinitesimals and the intuitive ideas of continuity and motion.

For the first half of his life, he considered himself as much a painter as a photographer, and when he finally gave it up, in 1923, there was a typical flamboyance in his renunciation, as he took his canvases into the garden and burned them.

His devotion to the concept of ahimsa (noninjury of living things) manifested itself in a renunciation of personal leather articles, particularly his sandals.

Towards the end of his life, he admitted that his heart had not been in the renunciation, which he made out of sheer pragmatism.

Yet while Pinsky is clearly drawn to these stern figures, he is by no means about to join in their renunciation of the social world.