Thesaurus / ascetic
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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.
OSCAR ISAAC SMOLDERS IN THE PENSIVE ROMANTIC THRILLER THE CARD COUNTERSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKSEPTEMBER 2, 2021TIMEIn that distorted state, it felt good to deprive myself, as if it were some ascetic form of self-mastery.
HOW NATURE HELPED ME RECOVER FROM AN EATING DISORDERKATE SIBERMARCH 25, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEI thought that I’d wind up among the “enlightened,” a digital ascetic who prioritized attentiveness above all else.
I DITCHED TEXTING AND PICKED UP THE PHONEABIGAIL BARRONIANFEBRUARY 22, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEHaving 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.
WINSLET, RONAN HAVE SEASIDE RENDEZVOUS IN ‘AMMONITE’JOHN PAUL KINGDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEHis cowl was thrown back, revealing his pale, ascetic countenance and shaven head.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINITake him in repose, and he looked a lank ascetic who dreamed of a happy land where flagellation was a joy and pain a panacea.
YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERIn appearance, Terry was an ill-adjusted compromise between an ascetic and a young man about town.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSThe Nazarenes are archological and ascetic; the Dsseldorf school is insipid in a modern way, feeble, colourless, and sentimental.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHERHis philosophy had made him neither an ascetic nor an anchorite.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELLHere and there is a pale ascetic, with a look of agony on his emaciated face.
BY THE CHRISTMAS FIRESAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERSWORDS RELATED TO ASCETIC
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- despotic
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- relentless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- rigorous
- satirical
- scathing
- serious
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- strict
- stringent
- tight-lipped
- tyrannical
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsmiling
- unsparing
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- bitter
- bullheaded
- by the book
- cruel
- disciplinary
- dyed-in-the-wool
- flinty
- forbidding
- frowning
- grim
- hang-tough
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-core
- hard-line
- hard-nosed
- hard-shell
- hardheaded
- harsh
- implacable
- inexorable
- inflexible
- mortified
- mulish
- relentless
- rigid
- rigorous
- rough
- severe
- steely
- stiff-necked
- strict
- stubborn
- tough
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unyielding
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