Sentence examples for justification of self-mortification from inspiring English sources

The Palestinians can be accused with some justification of self-mortification.

The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.

This is accomplished through personal sacrifice and may involve forms of self-mortification.

Dare one note that this particular form of self-mortification intimates a kind of subcutaneous eroticism?

Yet the Buddha renounced the extremes of self-mortification as strongly as he did self-indulgence, in his advocation of the "middle way".

The practice of self-mortification, which intensifies or stabilizes the austerities required of the monastic, is found in all monastic traditions.

It is easy to identify the ways that "the acute fever" burned in the Christian saints who engaged in all sorts of acts of self-mortification.

After diagnosis, it seemed sensible to relinquish makeup as I took off my jewelry like a penitent embarked on rigorous rounds of self-mortification.

From the Buddhist monks who stripped themselves of comfort and the Hindu sadhus with their rituals of self-mortification evolved new religions.

Which might perhaps explain why what began as a vengeful act became in the end, in its creator's mind at least, a votive act of self-mortification and prayer – an act of self-rescue.

There is disgust, prejudice, amusement, even horror, but what "Down and Out" shows is the start of Orwell's harsh and prolonged regimen of self-mortification, with the goal of stripping himself of his class prejudices and privileges.