ascetic
禁欲主义者,禁欲主义,苦行僧,禁欲
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- : a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- : a person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction.
- : a monk; hermit.
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Also as·cet·i·cal.
- : relating to asceticism, the doctrine that one can reach a high spiritual state through the practice of extreme self-denial or self-mortification.
- : rigorously abstinent; austere: an ascetic existence.
- : exceedingly strict or severe in religious exercises or self-mortification.
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By now, everyone who’s ever seen a Paul Schrader movie knows that he favors deep moral explorations, and often writes characters who are obsessed with routines and rituals, ascetics for better or worse.
In that distorted state, it felt good to deprive myself, as if it were some ascetic form of self-mastery.
I thought that I’d wind up among the “enlightened,” a digital ascetic who prioritized attentiveness above all else.
Having carefully set up the circumstances of his narrative within a viscerally realistic place and time, he lets it all unfold with an almost ascetic sparseness of dialogue.
Not surprisingly, this did not sit well with the ascetic early Christians.
Soyinka is a food and wine enthusiast, but he also sinks easily into a kind of ascetic mode and fasts regularly.
An Arab legend has it that the intoxicating effects of hashish were discovered by an ascetic monk in 1155.
Maybe this is better than self-denying ascetic teenage subculture anarchism.
He works around an impossibly long and lean ideal, but never allows his work to grow ascetic and cold.
His cowl was thrown back, revealing his pale, ascetic countenance and shaven head.
Take him in repose, and he looked a lank ascetic who dreamed of a happy land where flagellation was a joy and pain a panacea.