Sentence examples for through a renunciation from inspiring English sources

He shows us the possibility of a post-structuralism that does not reduce the life of the mind to a light, meaningless play of "discourse," but which digs down into the hidden depths of reality in hopes of understanding the "contagion" of mimetic violence and glimpses the possibility of redemption through a renunciation of our deeply ingrained desire to make a sacrifice.

A comparable moment of fear is to be had with Auden, when we understand that his slow change through the 1940's entails a renunciation of the art-thrill, and that the Audenesque dazzle is forever gone.

Eisenhower's 1959 announcement was, taken in its totality, an extension of the unilateral U.S. moratorium through another year, undertaken to encourage the Geneva negotiations; it was, most certainly, not a renunciation of that moratorium.

There was what one historian called a "renunciation of renunciation".

A renunciation of Massachusetts, really.

A renunciation of droit du seigneur.

Is his current renunciation a renunciation of his own radical youth?

Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.