Sentence examples for state of renunciation from inspiring English sources
At different moments he understands his compulsion in different ways: a pre-emptive defence against rejection, a means of asserting his moral superiority over others, even a form of self-anesthetisation: He was, he thought, very close to the ideal state he dreamed of in his reading, the state of renunciation and quiet.
Without this qualified renunciation, our state of negative solidarity can only become "an unbearable burden", provoking "political apathy, isolationist nationalism, or desperate rebellion against all powers that be".
In its narrow sense, the term is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction.
In his speech in Berlin, Mr. Kim proposed government-to-government assistance, reunions of families separated in the war, dialogue between the two governments and a renunciation of the state of war.
Tradition has it that Akka Mahadevi preferred to wear no clothes, a form of renunciation which in her own words was the "most exalted spiritual state".
Without the state apparatus that had long accepted, however grudgingly, ethnic coexistence, and with the murder of Jews made into a sign of renunciation of "Judeobolshevism," intolerable pressure was placed on the native population.
There was what one historian called a "renunciation of renunciation".
I am learning the art of renunciation.
It also has a politics of renunciation.
Hers is the virile glamour of renunciation.
The movie ends with a surprising act of renunciation.
