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"monastic" Definitions
  1. connected with monks or monasteries
  2. (of a way of life) simple and quiet and possibly celibate synonym ascetic

225 Sentences With "monastic"

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You've got a sort of monastic approach to this stuff.
Simple wooden furniture also contributes to an atmospherically monastic mood.
Do the monastic thing for about a week at least.
Mr. Morton said there was a "monastic quality" to prison.
The abbey's new affiliate program will offer two new short-term monastic options for people of any, or no, faith traditions: a monthlong monastic institute, open to men and women, and a yearlong residency.
Dr. Richard Meen fully grasps the monastic nature of his powers.
The monastic theme is a subject near and dear to Benioff.
Monastic seriousness isn't the only way to take in a show.
He conforms to this purist, almost monastic approach to the magazine.
So, it is an incredible monastic revival, again on an unprecedented scale.
Here are some guidelines as you plot the monastic life ahead. HOARDING.
This is the second-largest "gar," which means monastic encampment in Tibetan.
Yet Huntington's comparison of the military profession with monastic life was apt.
My efforts were downright monastic — asceticism in the service of its opposite.
He curated his resentments with the care of a sixth-century monastic archivist.
He said the measures were simply aimed at instilling discipline to monastic life.
Another bone kept as a monastic relic was from a Tibetan brown bear.
But the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain is a place apart.
"But I think being a justice is a little bit too monastic for me."
I don't live in a hermetic, monastic vacuum where things exist with no context.
PHILADELPHIA — In the West, our idea of monastic ritual involves prayer and quiet reflection.
Kendrick Lamar, rap's most modest, skeptical and monastic superstar, is having none of that.
Ever since Bourne saw those monks, he became curious about the monastic way of life.
Stephen Stein, author of "The Shaker Experience in America" compares them to a monastic group.
They apparently keep themselves removed from world affairs, which is pretty monastic for quasi-scientists.
St. Augustine, the founder of Luther's monastic order, laid it out in the fourth century.
Or he just smokes a joint in his monastic apartment above the clinic and broods.
Given this monastic sensibility, he surprised me one night at Becco, the theatre-district restaurant.
Benedict founded several monastic communities, including one at Monte Cassino, where he died in 543.
Do you listen to music as you write, or go for the monastic, writerly silence?
But to his followers, this monastic, pensive leader is a better direction for Silicon Valley.
His research is published in the December issue of The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies.
"Thus he does not deserve to hold his monastic rank any longer," the document said.
"Food plays an important part in monastic living," said Charlie Kremer, Subiaco Director of Food Services.
We'd swap the needless (and anxiety inducing) hustle and bustle for something that approached the monastic.
However, this explanation may simply be a way to avoid direct criticism of revered monastic authorities.
To my surprise, I did not find the designer particularly aloof or monastic in her bearing.
Their daily lives revolve around chanting and conducting outreach services; they all lead a monastic lifestyle.
Saad was defrocked this month over what church officials called violations of monastic life, and later detained.
The monastic community has about 30 members, of whom 20 are in residence at any given time.
So last Christmas wasn't about friends and relations; it was a monastic experience of trying to delve.
Some communities mandate a monastic existence for postpartum women — 30 to 40 days of rehabilitation and rest.
With so much to look at downstairs, the virtually all-white guest rooms can seem almost monastic.
He uses Facebook and Twitter to teach about Buddhism and give outsiders a window on monastic life.
He left Spencer in 1958 to help start a new monastic community, St. Benedict's, in Snowmass, Colo.
As a monastic canon regular, musical theory and design was an important part of Diviš' professional life.
No such gross misrepresentation of monastic scribal production — as in, factually wrong — has been published for decades.
He was doing a lot of listening and thinking about music, without necessarily taking the monastic approach.
Disgusted by the corruption all around, he fled to the wilderness and founded monastic communities across Europe.
And, like Alec Guinness's Obi-Wan Kenobi once did, Luke comes off as a brooding monastic loner.
With a monastic diet, intense training and a relentless, inspiring positivity, Tom built himself from the ground up.
Fewer and fewer women -- mostly monastic abbesses -- were ordained as deacons, primarily for service within their own convents.
Following Epiphanius&apos death, the church took a series of measures aimed at instilling discipline into monastic life.
Flaubert, the poet among novelists, transmuted disgust with the bourgeoisie into a monastic dedication to his austere art.
In October 2017, Radio 3 ran five soundscapes of monastic life from the Downside, Belmont and Pluscarden Abbeys.
In keeping with broader declines in the ranks of priests, nuns and brothers, Mepkin's monastic community is dwindling.
Mount Athos, the spiritual epicenter of Orthodoxy, is an entirely self-governing monastic republic, with its own parliament.
Fighting climate change does not mean we all have to live in monastic deprivation, eating crickets and weeds.
He had led a monastic existence there, eating, sleeping and exercising for the sole purpose of running fast.
Mustachianism is similar to one of my areas of study: the neo-monastic movement in the United States.
This gesture struck me not only for its monastic integrity but also for the humility of its ambitions.
Unfortunately, overtourism could be putting the area's delicate early medieval monastic remains and its famous bird habitats at risk.
Mother Teresa could have practised her monastic vocation in Ireland, a land where she lived as a young woman.
Last month a Buddhist monastic in Sri Lanka was arrested and charged with attacking a centre for Muslim refugees.
The décor borders on the monastic: communal tables, religious icons, a wooden dough-rolling machine long retired from service.
They study these patients with monastic concentration, drawing out a cosmos of precious data from just that small group.
The 1,000-square-foot space, much like the beautifully crafted goods on display, is almost monastic in its simplicity.
The servers acted less like ancient space aliens than like monks running a monastic retreat for stressed-out nonbelievers.
Where Erasmus had found it necessary to flee from monastic life, Luther fled to it, against his father's wishes.
Lately, though, Brother Joseph's health has taken a turn for the worse, narrowing the scope of his monastic life.
In this monastic setting, Marcel Hug and Manuela Schär were quietly engaged in the near-spiritual pursuit of speed.
His driving ambition led him into alcoholism, years of fascination with fascism and a life of almost monastic frugality.
When I did ["Network"] in London, I was really hyper-focused on it and very monastic in my lifestyle.
Inside the gala, he complimented Madonna's outfit (before she emerged from a monastic hood to sing "Like a Prayer").
They make it possible for their members to feel like they're part of this far flung secular monastic order.
There, barren desert has been transformed into a lush compound of gardens and monastic cells around a soaring cathedral.
The king is considered to be Buddhism's ultimate patron and the gatekeeper of the Sangha, the Buddhist monastic order.
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That threatens to cut the transmission of religious knowledge and monastic tradition between monks of different generations, the organization said.
It's a vast complex with both administrative offices and monastic spaces, including temples that tell the story of Buddha's life.
The monastic tradition on Athos goes back to the 9th century A.D., although the continuous Christian presence is much older.
Inside is a bewildering array of staircases, a labyrinth that leads down to the monastic library (there is no elevator).
Mr Saied, by contrast, was seen as a monastic figure who will root out corruption and take on the establishment.
He leads a somewhat monastic life compared with his recent years in Turkey, when he flew on the company's jet.
Wirapol, formerly known by his monastic name Luang Pu Nenkham, was expelled from the monkhood in 2013 after the video surfaced.
He preached a monastic retreat into high culture, where a "saving remnant" of the elite could rescue civilization from the barbarians.
Descending into the cavelike quiet and viewing the exquisite metal gears in that quasi-monastic setting is almost a holy experience.
It says he was trained for his Irish mission through a longish exposure to monastic teachers in Gaul, modern-day France.
Though I have never looked for a woman or abandoned monastic life, I am not fit to wear the robes again.
In 1960, he and his twin brother, Michael, who survives him, founded a monastic order, the Community of the Glorious Ascension.
It was the monastic library, the Shaker meeting houses, places that combined work and meditation, stiff-back chairs and lap rugs.
"It's an interesting combination of monastic selflessness with the subway aesthetic," said Jonathan Marvel, the founding principal of his namesake firm.
Putin will be in Athens on Friday, and also visit Greece's monastic community at Mount Athos in northern Greece on Saturday.
On the one hand, "it is not in the city and is a quiet place for a monastic life", he said.
And when we last catch sight of him, a helper in a West Country monastic care home is pushing Ivor's wheelchair.
But Obama himself has questioned whether he would have the temperament for the monastic life of sitting in chambers writing opinions.
He interprets the monastic asceticism of the saint as a criticism of the luxury in the Fin de Siècle in Vienna.
The best guess is that the entire monastic peninsula was on the verge of veering out of control because of the theological dispute which had been gathering pace for several years; and there were fears in St Petersburg that Greece might use the chaotic situation as an excuse to expel all Russians from the monastic polity.
He would stay for up to a week each visit, living alongside the monastic communities and joining them during meals and prayers.
Popes have occasionally sent representatives in to crack the whip over monastic orders suspected of veering from the doctrinal straight-and-narrow.
In that sense, Balenciaga's monastic black pieces feel solemn and modest when displayed alongside Antoine Bourdelle's flamboyant and almost hysterical plaster casts.
Suspicion immediately fell on a monk known by his monastic name of Isaiah, who was defrocked by Pope Tawadros a week later.
The Church of Scientology, for instance, has a monastic order called Sea Org, and it makes members sign billion year service contracts.
A Roman Catholic priest who began his vocation in a monastic order, Father Palladino was also a world-renowned master of calligraphy.
He points out that it's mostly novice monks who play games, which makes sense, since novices often enter monastic life as children.
And I have a strong, introverted, monastic kind of impulse — which no one really believes, but what is actually kind of true.
He was recognized as a rinpoche, or reincarnated lama, and educated as a child in the traditional monastic system of Tibetan Buddhism.
After the 1988 crackdown, Sitagu Sayadaw slipped into exile in Tennessee before returning home to open Buddhist academies and a monastic university.
Take the monk out of the monastic community where he has lived for 30 years or so and he remains a monk.
For unclear reasons, she stopped composing in 1991 and spent the last 15 years of her life living an ascetic, monastic life.
Less so by the simple, bare, damp, monastic room that the champ had been living in next door to the Muay Thai camp.
He's a part of this monastic, warrior monk sect, and he's loyal to his brothers yet he's having an affair with a woman.
Henry VIII, after seizing monastic endowments and giving them to his supporters, ordered an inquiry into Oxford and Cambridge college endowments in 22008.
" The High Sparrow can smile all he wants, she said, showing off his "monastic calm, [but] I think he is very internally fiery.
Holmes also now infamously played the part with her almost monastic adherence to the all-black wardrobe, an overt nod to Steve Jobs.
The monastic life isn't for everyone, of course, and the Haggler is happy that millions of others take the bold leap into matrimony.
" He says the main provocateurs are "operating in very powerful institutions -- the military and monastic networks; the two major pillars of Burmese society.
There's this image of people who have trained specifically on one instrument as being monastic or singularly focused on the technical aspect of performance.
Dr. Hill left his childhood denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, for the Anglican Communion, which emphasizes its Catholic past and has a monastic tradition.
But, by discarding monastic asceticism and embracing the notion that diligence and self-improvement are pleasing to God, they became particularly good at it.
When Pinkham says that Benioff wants to infuse the energy of Dreamforce into Salesforce offices, the monastic theme provides perhaps the most vivid example.
Two years later, the king oversaw the Dissolution of the Monasteries, an attempt to destroy the country's Catholic monastic system and seize its assets.
Burp Castle , a pub in the East Village, features Belgian beers and a vibe so monastic that, for years, the staff wore religious robes.
The protagonists of The Get Down spend as much time hanging out in St. Mary's Park as they do in the crew's monastic squat.
The main representation the medieval period extends over about two chapters of the book, starting when Poggio heads off to visit a monastic library.
Though the Black House was never monastic,  its mixture of Buddhist motifs and macabre decor was an inspiration for Chalermchai, who was Thawan's student.
At the first trial, prosecutors and witnesses said Saad had been investigated for breaking monastic rules, including by trying to buy and sell land.
Among the most precisely thought-through spaces is the monastic bathroom with a terrazzo sink and a dark metal-framed shower designed by D'Orazio.
And even though the diet seemed to eliminate pretty much everything, I found myself looking uncharacteristically forward to three weeks of monastic dietary rigor.
Where Cunningham was "monastic and reserved at best," Mr. Wilson gives "an overabundance of communication and clarity": copious notes, shoptalk at all hours, warmth.
The brewery must be of secondary importance within the monastery, and it should witness to the business practices proper to a monastic way of life.
Del was a loner before the apocalypse struck, and initially, he claims he's happy to be living a near-monastic life of solitude and silence.
Whereas Belfast owes its emergence to Victorian heavy industry, Derry never quite forgets that it was established, according to local tradition, as a monastic settlement.
Canterbury Cathedral's monastic community was disbanded during the Reformation and most of volumes in its library were either dispersed, destroyed, or taken apart for reuse.
During Bosch's lifetime, Den Bosch was the northernmost city of the Duchy of Brabant, a part of the Holy Roman Empire, and a monastic city.
Many of the women who buy their clothes, which are elegant and faintly monastic, are decades older than the designers, who are not yet 30.
It was as far as one could get from the centers of American neuroscience, but he was drawn to the monastic intensity of the place.
Many monks in northern Greece's self-governing monastic community of Mount Athos — regarded as the jewel in the Ecumenical Patriarchate's crown — have pro-Russian tendencies.
But unlike other clergy members, who are banned by monastic rules from using cellphones, these nuns were given phones so they could communicate when overseas.
"It was the South Vietnamese government that exiled him," said Sister True Dedication, a monastic disciple of Mr. Nhat Hanh and a former BBC journalist.
Almost ninety-five percent of the Thai population is Buddhist, but as the country becomes more metropolitan, fewer people choose to pursue a monastic lifestyle.
"He set that tone of being fully present and creating almost monastic-like rituals that made his children feel safe and normal," Caroline Ghosn said.
And as a contrast to the Red Bull orgy that is contemporary dance music culture, particularly in the festival context, the Blaze are monastic outliers.
There he retreated into a monastic routine of daily physical therapy and exercise, relearning the fundamentals of ballet technique and how to use his body.
Sometimes it meant a chiffon evening gown embroidered in tiny sequined flowers or rhinestone geometries, the whole fuzzed out by a monastic overlay of net.
Known for his monastic intensity and the intricate techniques he uses to carve stones, the 60-year-old doesn't merely set gems; he transforms them.
On the afternoon I visited, in a monastic building uphill from the printing press, monks held a dharma ceremony, which they do every few weeks.
Raymond Raynes, the superior of a monastic order known as the Anglican Community of the Resurrection, he began editing The Prism, a small religious magazine.
Sure, that's true, but operating in the real world means accepting the choices we make, especially when living with peers, won't always tend to the monastic.
But I think ultimately, though, my personality is such that maybe I'm particularly suited to working in the, as you said, monastic style that I do.
A centuries-old tradition of monastic education gave Myanmar one of the highest literacy rates in South-East Asia at the time of independence, in 1948.
The defrocked monk, identified by his monastic name of Isaiah, confessed to collaborating with others to kill Bishop Epiphanius, abbot of St. Macarius Monastery, prosecutors said.
In the premodern West, where civil authorities showed little interest in—and sometimes considerable antagonism toward—the broad dissemination of knowledge, most encyclopedists were monastic Christians.
The report said the generous giving reflected the practice of "Sangha Dana", where the country's Theravada Buddhist majority donate to support those living a monastic lifestyle.
But, according to polls, fewer Brazilians intend to vote for him than even the monastic Cabo Daciolo, with his concerns about the Freemasonry and the Illuminati.
The priesthood is one of them, because I do feel like, in some ways, being an actor, especially in the theater, is living a monastic life.
In 2015, Yegwa Ukpo set up Stranger Lagos, a concept store that stocked monastic, often gender nonconformist clothes inspired by the Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto.
The church has also given its monks across Egypt one month to shut down their social media accounts, arguing that keeping them is incompatible with monastic life.
By emphasizing the inclusive and the positive, the church under Francis strives to be more "modern family" than "monastic denial," and will even let some things go.
Tsusho Byoto, an obscure Japanese scholar-monk, advocated a militarized conception of Zen in an attempt to recruit the guarded Thai monastic order to the fascist cause.
Somewhere between minimalist and monastic, my 220-square-foot room included a king-size bed — standard here — and an elongated nightstand that doubled as a work desk.
He found monastic life suffocating, longing for the spirit of the Renaissance that had taken hold in Italy, inspired by the newly awakened passion for classical wisdom.
Kowtowing to the empire would mean the loss of Mandalay, the holiest city in Burmese Buddhism, and with it hundreds of years of court and monastic learning.
Rifling through the remainder of Everything at Once's museum-sized offerings, we see an extravagantly long Richard Long painting near Lee Ufan's monastic abstract composition "Dialogue" (2017).
But his driving ambition led to alcoholism, years of fascination with fascism and, trying to lead his employees by example, into a life of almost monastic frugalities.
Its pilot program in 2016 involved 82 monks at temples and a monastic college, and its results were positive, with weight loss and lowered cholesterol levels recorded.
Exercise, something as simple as walking around the temple for at least 40 minutes a day, can make up for the quiet pace of their monastic duties.
But perhaps what is most unusual about Kipchoge, 33, and his diet of monastic extremes is the one thing he does not do: overextend himself in training.
He had opportunities that Mr. Pendleton perhaps never had, and what good would it do to cast them aside in favor of a more monastic artist's existence?
Wael Saad, known by his monastic name Isaiah al-Makari, and Ramon Rasmi Mansour, known as Faltaous al-Makari, were convicted by a criminal court last year.
BERLIN — When he conducts, Kirill Petrenko presents a paradox: How can an artist so mysteriously shy and monastic offstage manage to steal the spotlight whenever he's on?
Phillips is reportedly reluctant to sell the works, which he produced via a monastic painting routine conducted during mornings when he had time alone in his cell.
It is a historical fact that monastic and other self-isolated communities have always had their fair share of human weaknesses, from ruthless power struggles to manipulative relationships.
Judicial sources said one of the monks accused of the killing, Wael Saad, known by his monastic name Isaiah al-Makari, had confessed during questioning to the murder.
"These decisions are meant to streamline monastic life and there will be more measures in the future in this regard," Pope Tawadros said in a sermon last week.
Phra Dhammachayo has been stripped of his monastic rank by King Maha Vajiralongkorn, but secular authorities have no power to remove the protection afforded by his monk's robes.
Which is why those who really want to retreat from news coverage of Trump era have to also give up on politics and pursue a truly monastic existence.
The earliest known images of such crowns appears, worn by the Bodhisattva Padmapani, in a fifth-century mural painting at the monastic caves at Ajanta in central India.
Mr. Echols had dropped out of school in the ninth grade, but he used prison as a kind of monastic retreat and an opportunity for self-directed study.
He lasted only three months and lost his faith by his early 212s; the lure, more than God, had been the idealized notion of a monastic writing life.
Thousands of Buddhists listening to Sitagu Sayadaw, one of Myanmar's most revered Buddhist leaders, also known by his monastic name Ashin Nyanissara, in Paleik, Myanmar, in November 20153.
There may be exceptions: In the monastic sphere the Trappist Thomas Merton transcended his background, as did soldier-statesmen such as George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Near my home, the streets are named for medieval monastic orders, including the Guillemites and the Blancs-Manteaux, who bought land from the Templars and fortified the area.
" Members of the Mount Athos monastic community in the north of the country addressed the crowd, flanked by Greeks in traditional clothing, declaring that the deal "distorts history.
So how did the pricey blue hue, sourced solely from Afghanistan during this period, end up on the teeth of a middle-aged woman in a German monastic community?
The collections vary from monastic long looks by Valentino's Pierpaolo Piccioli, to preppy and more sporty items by Japan's Hiroshi Fujiwara, to ruffled and layered looks from Simone Rocha.
It results in an almost monastic life, but some of us feel it is the price of being one of nine on the most powerful court in the world.
Maroilles is the soft kind—we often call them "monastic" cheeses because back in the day, monks would make them, moistening their dry and cracking rinds in leftover hooch.
The monastic life appealed to him, but it forced him to cut ties with his family, which caused many of them considerable pain, as he recounted in the documentary.
Most outfits draw on monastic dress, including Mr. Piccioli's elegant hooded dress of brown cashmere and Mr. Owens' notorious (and rather stupid) sportswear robes cut out at the crotch.
On most Mondays in the Rockaways, most Tuesdays in Crown Heights, and most Thursdays in the East Village, this monastic group from Arverne, Queens, leads open Buddhist meditation classes.
The illumination and handwriting are sometimes so similar that scholars have even called the artwork produced by either Canterbury Schools or monastic centers throughout Northeastern France the Channel Style.
Now, students can sign up to spend three months in the country through an organization called Where There Be Dragons, including a stint volunteering at the country's largest monastic school.
At the height of its prestige, the "Sodalitium of Christian Life" (its name derives from sodalis, the Latin word for companion) drew thousands of men into a quasi-monastic life.
Balwoo GongyangIf you want to learn and dine at the same dang time, come here, where you'll be served up vegan temple food alongside knowledge of South Korea's monastic history.
But one chief purpose for this kind of monastic walking is to literally pound into your body, step after step, the positive habits that can be found only through repetition.
What makes things worse for Roderick is that before adopting the monastic precepts of straightedge hardcore music — no drugs, no booze, no fun — he used to be just like Tuffer.
But their existence outside the highly structured world of institutional Catholicism was very remote from Luther's long immersion in monastic life, which by all accounts he embraced with exceptional zeal.
The Cultural Corps of Korean Buddhism announced it would suspend until March 20 its Templestay program, which allows participants to experience monastic Buddhist life at 137 temples around South Korea.
This love was expressed in friendship, in shared service, in mystical prayer and in monastic celibacy, but it was no less intimate and intense than the love of married couples.
A girls' trip with monastic overtones, Jessica Dickey's new play goes on retreat with a group of women trying to live like medieval nuns (though likely practicing better personal hygiene).
Shortly thereafter, now baptized, he broke off his engagement to marry, resigned his professorship, vowed himself to perpetual chastity, and determined to return to Africa and found a monastic community.
The religion supplied the symbols of kingship in courts, capitals, and urban centers from Burma (now Myanmar) to Siam (Thailand) to Laos, as monastic orders and ruling elites forged intimate ties.
The chain saw, wielded by workers demolishing a row of homes, signaled the imminent end of thousands of hand-built monastic dwellings here at Larung Gar, the world's largest Buddhist institute.
There are alternative colleges that replace traditional courses with personalized study; gap-year programs that combine quasi-monastic retreats with world travel; summer seminars devoted to clearing trails and reading philosophy.
Still, holdouts remain, and it is easy to find places as singular as the Scuola del Cuoio, a leather-working atelier set in a monastic complex in the Santa Croce neighborhood.
The juxtaposition of pop culture icons and deities isn't groundbreaking, but the transformation of a formerly monastic site into a multi-million dollar, immersive sculpture is awe-inspiring in its innovation.
Even as Ashin Wirathu was punished by the state monastic authority, he continued to roam the country to deliver his anti-Muslim sermons, including in Rakhine State, home to the Rohingya.
Here is papal regalia of unsurpassed intricacy, but also space-age brides, monastic couture, angels in gold lamé, and a choir up in the balcony dressed in head-to-toe Balenciaga.
PARIS In the gilded ballroom of the Shangri-La Hotel, Raf Simons showed a series of monastic dusters in his signature exaggerated and boxy proportions, all topped with helmet-shaped hats.
Across early Christian sources, moments of conversion or of taking monastic vows were regularly marked by dramatic changes in garb that visibly signaled one's new identity as a person of faith.
The researchers also nicknamed each exoplanet -- those that orbit stars outside our own solar system -- after monastic Trappist beers like Rochefort, Orval and Westvleteren, some of which have been brewed for centuries.
Having studied at film school and penned a best-selling work on monastic life in the Soviet Union, the bishop is considered a skilled communicator and his public words are mulled carefully.
I wonder whether it is more human to flee this global culture of signs pretending to be wonders, to take up a monastic life in a cave, as some have historically done.
The Bible disappeared from the Cathedral's collection of monastic books 500 years ago during the Reformation, when the Church of England split from the authority of the Pope and Roman Catholic Church.
But Chinese officials have begun demolishing many of the monastic homes, in another attempt to shape and control Tibetan culture and religious life, say representatives of two Tibetan advocacy groups outside China.
" What happened in this world was "[t]he complete subordination of the monastic scribe to the text — the erasure, in the interest of crushing the monk's spirit, of his intellect and sensibility.
Popular campaigns to this effect involve the politics of monastic hierarchies, revivalist education campaigns, the advancement of laws for the "protection of race and religion" and attempts to influence the 2015 elections.
Certainly the enormous puddling trousers, the laminated parkas, the billowing tented coats, the stark felted cloaks, the tufted sweaters he showed had an element of priestly garb, or else of monastic habits.
Later, after Mr. Anderson picked up a biography of Balenciaga in an airport, the man in his story became a master designer with a monastic lifestyle that is disrupted by new love.
He is the author of "The Father and the Son: My Father's Journey Into the Monastic Life," which tells the story of his father, a former civil servant who entered a monastery.
Her existence is monastic: the studio, a rough-hewed space in an old warehouse at Amsterdam's former lumber port, is small, spartan and staffed with a clutch of other millennials — mostly women.
At the back, the master bedroom and the kitchen — grand and austere as a monastic refectory — sit on opposite sides of a glassed-in courtyard shaded by a soaring yvyrá-pytá tree.
Here's a look at them: Armenian monastic ensembles of Iran The site comprises three Armenian Christian monasteries -- St. Thaddeus, St. Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor -- in the northwest of the country.
A prominent fixture of the empire is the Bene Gesserit (Jedi/Sith), an ancient monastic order of space witches whose array of powers include using The Voice (Mind Tricks) to control others.

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