Sentence examples for renunciation the from inspiring English sources

In a grand act of renunciation, the Marschallin relinquishes Octavian to a younger rival.

And in "Nonviolence," when the chorus quotes a Hindu text calling for kindness and renunciation, the music has a slashing, relentless power.

There followed what the historian Alan Petigny called "the renunciation of renunciation". The amount of consumer advertising on the radio exploded.

Last week, however, the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews issued a solemn renunciation: "the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews".

While philosophical works such as the Upanishads emphasized renunciation, the dharma texts argued that the householder who maintains his sacred fire, begets children, and performs his ritual duties well also earns religious merit.

Neither is violent — the first is a renunciation, the second a reckoning — but both are profoundly disconcerting, because they leave white characters and readers alike alone with past and present iniquities, and with the scales to measure them.

Shakespeare, too, took up this subject — the renunciation of the creative self — in "The Tempest".

During this period many Americans spoke out against the treaty and the renunciation of the claim to Texas.

A number of officials said that while the blow to Israel's name had been great, the renunciation of the harshest conclusion would help in the future.

Our religious leaders no longer preach the renunciation of the world; our culture scoffs at the idea.

The end of his ascendancy was marked by democratic reforms and the renunciation of the alliance with Sparta.