Sentence examples for renunciation in from inspiring English sources

"There's a level of renunciation in collaboration," said Ms. Monk.

American managers have not obviously been keen on renunciation in the past decade.But could business schools change this?

Gold fuels the story of love, power, redemption and renunciation in the worlds of gods and heroes, dwarves and giants, Valkyries and mortals.

There is no renunciation in this (cf. meditation), no striving to detach, all these things, all the things you can name, being simply gone.

While English women were weeping over Celia Johnson's stoic portrayal of sexual renunciation in Brief Encounter they were also bonding over the bawdy, upwardly-mobile Amber St Clare.

Wagner was introduced to Eastern forms of spirituality through the writings of Schopenhauer, and the Buddhist ideal of renunciation in particular comes through in letters to Wagner's muse, Mathilde Wesendonck, and in the diaries of his wife, Cosima.

It is all about following God, depending on God, and worshiping God... in renunciation... in silence.

There were 235 renunciations in 2008 and 743 last year.

For example, he willingly makes renunciations in favour of his current role and career.

Of all the many passivity renunciations in Fox's work, this one — on the part of a dry, cynical man (Fox describes him as seeming to have been pressed between two blotters) — is the most moving.

Of all the many passivity renunciations in Fox's work, this one on the part of a dry, cynical man (Fox describes him as seeming to have been pressed between two blotters)—is the most moving.