Sentence examples for monastic austerity from inspiring English sources

Its colleges mixed luxury with monastic austerity.

And Franco, on his crusade to save Christian civilization, modeling himself after monarchs like Philip II, intended to echo the monastic austerity of Philip's nearby Escorial.

It is the seriousness of Ms. Alhadeff's unnamed heroine -- her finely tuned cultural radar, her vaguely aristocratic mien -- that catches the eye of the Master, who plunders her ideas and cultivates a monastic austerity to cover his own apparent lack of pedigree.

This is even more apparent in the Saundarānanda, which recounts a well-known story of how the Buddha converted his half-brother Nanda, who was deeply in love with his wife, Sundarī, and with the good life, to the monastic life of austerity.

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

Compared with most contemporary monastic rules, the Benedictine Rule emphasizes less austerity and contemplation and more common life and common work in charity and harmony.

A shepherd, Simeon entered a monastic community, but, because of his excessive austerities, he was expelled and became a hermit.

At least there were no more austerities: once monks have left the monastery and become priests, the restrictions of the monastic life fall away.

Monastic Prague.

Monastic ruins are widespread.

She is monastic, unrelenting".