Sentence examples for renunciation as from inspiring English sources

The first critical biography of Gaudí to appear, this book belongs to the history of Catholic renunciation as well as the history of the building art.

His "great renunciation," as one biographer called it, is a phenomenon without equivalent in music history.

Every speech in the play seems to take some kind of renunciation as its occasion.

In response to it a group of like-minded Muslims set materialist moderation, if not outright renunciation, as a goal.

But my ghosts in that scene are all from the 19th century -- an excellent time for examining issues of renunciation as they played themselves out in the lives of middle-class women.

The great mystery that continues to haunt and dismay Rimbaud fans is this "act of renunciation," as Henry Miller put it in his rather loopy 1946 study of Rimbaud, "The Time of the Assassins," which "one is tempted to compare... with the release of the atomic bomb".

Either way, the Glass stories are all about renunciation -- as is "The Catcher in the Rye," in its way.

They proceed from "external" to "internal" worship and adore the Goddess mentally, offering their hearts as her throne and their self-renunciation as "flowers".

Sufis, Islamic mystics, practice self-renunciation as a means to escape the exile from God that life really is, but rarely succeed.

The twin legacy of Shakerism is true to the twin roots of the Shakers' vision: they remain both as a model of wild-eyed and unreal renunciation and as makers of simple good things.

White is an emblem of purity and renunciation, but, as the uniform of the suffragists, also of sisterly solidarity.