ascetic
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Ascetic, observant and karmic are three words that describe my essence.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023
Ascetic in outline, but suffused with a warm humanity, their pieces are studded with minor epiphanies on the way to a larger sense of emotional fulfilment.
From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2010
Ascetic in the extreme, it set a tradition of simplicity which was to shape Japanese art right along.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reemtsma met Barlach in 1934 and bought a sculpture called The Ascetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ascetic Christianity ministered new aliment to this common propensity.
From The Hermits by Kingsley, Charles
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