Sentence examples for renunciation of self from inspiring English sources
"renunciation of self" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to someone's decision to give up something important to them in order to achieve a particular goal. For example, "Alice made a difficult decision to make a renunciation of self for the greater good."
There is something moving in his renunciation of self, and the way the shy, stammering swain simply has to learn to live with Iris's voracious sexual appetite for other men and other women.
James understood this fear and saw the potential for transformation "through a passion of renunciation of the self and surrender to the higher power".
Shakespeare, too, took up this subject — the renunciation of the creative self — in "The Tempest".
Critics of republicanism often fear that this implies extensive self-sacrifice and frugality, a renunciation of individuality and self-identification with the community (Goodin 2003).
TEACHOUT At one point in "Private Domain," you mention your "renunciation of the charismatic view of self".
For the Americans this might remove a worrying security problem in the region; for Taiwan it would involve a renunciation of its right to self-determination.
The sesh, looked at from afar, is a kind of post-ironic reselling of Binge Britain, a nihilistic renunciation of life itself, a self-indulgence of epic proportions.
The hidden premise of gun control is the state's monopoly on force, the willing renunciation of the most potent form of self-defense in favor of collective defense — not the naïve wishing-away of violent crime but the assumption of effective law enforcement that would both thwart and obviate the proliferation of firearms.
Fundamentalism can even be associated with a self-sacrificial renunciation of material pleasures; even suicide is sanctioned if it will further the fundamentalist goal.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the hit-making Seattle rap duo, opened the show with "Thrift Shop," their self-congratulatory renunciation of hip-hop opulence.
Gandhi's practice of self-renunciation (brahmacharya) including his vow of poverty and his fasts were closely tied to his commitment to ahimsa.
