Sentence examples for monastic existence from inspiring English sources
For Hadelich, touring is a rather monastic existence.
Because there were so absurdly few women's abbeys, women opted for this informal monastic existence.
"But I didn't feel I had the self-discipline for the monastic existence it would require.
Why is it that other people can only get so far?" Full commitment would mean a full-time monastic existence.
In doing so they chose a monastic existence over the potential fame and financial reward of football.
After studying Classical languages with the patriarch Nerses I, Mesrop Mashtots began a monastic existence about 395.
He still writes seven days a week and has yet to discover any authorial shortcuts: "It's neither more nor less difficult than it's always been". In short, he leads the sort of quasi-monastic existence that would do Zuckerman proud.
War has engendered a monastic approach to existence in Eritrea, where people have raised deprivation and absolute self-reliance to the status of religion, even as both Orthodox Christianity and Islam have been de-emphasized.
Yet the game's powerbrokers have the blinkers on, content for NRL to dominate in parts of Australia, play a minor role in the north of England and the suburbs of Auckland and live a monastic virtual non-existence in tiny pockets elsewhere, without organisation or any real hope.
We lived blissfully in the woods, and it was sort of this great monastic-type of existence, yet with this beautiful woman.
