Norbert adopted the rule of Bishop St. Augustine of Hippo for his new order, and he modeled its constitutions after that of the Cistercians, an austere group of cloistered, vegetarian monks practicing perpetual silence.
What is perpetual kindness but the practice of kindness?
On Broadway, the practice of perpetual workshop is common enough to be known as the Theatrical Index syndrome, referring to the weekly publication that lists all the productions supposedly en route to the Great White Way.
In Goethe's "Elective Affinities," the young Ottilie moves silently, with "perpetual exquisite motion," and practices "excessive abstemiousness in eating and drinking"; eventually, she dies.
There, she worked with the sick, took a vow of perpetual virginity, and began practicing self-mortification, which included praying for hours outdoors, on her knees, during the winter.
His personal disregard for the "family values" the Christian Right so loves, his cutthroat business practices, his perpetual lying, his self-worship, his bullying and blustering and bloviating?
Best practices call for perpetual roll over of kWh credits.
Establishing a civil state is "in itself an end (that each ought to have)" (Kant, Theory and Practice 8 289; see also Perpetual Peace, Appendix I).
If City Council members would give up member items, off-budget and hidden financing of "friendly" organizations and the practice of using taxpayer-financed improvements as perpetual campaign advertising, then we would be able to abandon term limits.
In practice, that means that dissidents like Maldonado live in perpetual fear of a visit from state security.
