Sentence examples for monastic from inspiring English sources

The gardens are dotted with olive, pine and carob trees, and quiet seating areas once intended for monastic reflection.

Whereas many drinks made by monks are only incidentally monastic, Chartreuse has a special significance for Roman Catholics.

Then I make the trek to a Vipassana meditation centre and begin a monastic life for 10 days.

Each monastic cell has its own eerie painting.

In doing so they chose a monastic existence over the potential fame and financial reward of football.

Next to the bustling share house of Big Bash cricket now in view, this unbeaten and unchanged Test side takes on monastic qualities.

In 1505 young Luther was so terrified by a thunderstorm that he vowed that he would join a monastic order if the forks of electricity avoided him.

Gorgeous manuscripts with arcane symbols, wise old monastic teachers and marauders at the gate (Vikings, in this case) are enjoyably combined in this Franco-Belgo-Irish collaboration.Then recall the languid, patrician tones of Lord Clark, holding forth on the subject of civilisation: a fond memory for many a middle-aged art historian.

Meanwhile, at the London conference which settled the first Balkan war, Russians pressed for more influence in the running of the monastic statelet.

With the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, monastic fishponds disappeared along with the monks, and fish became politically suspect.

Unburdened by territorial ambition or by the feudal and monastic oppressions of inland towns, these people looked outward.