The ascetic nature of rock climbing appealed to him--just rock, wits and muscle.
Throughout his presidency, he lived an ascetic life in a modest villa, only visiting the grandiose presidential palace for official functions.
Much more important to the ascetic Mr Bose is that his name is widely associated by ordinary folk with high-quality sound.
This temple, built in the late 15th century, is a major monument of Jain architecture, an ancient ascetic faith based on nonviolence.
Had he been a larger than life character like Peter Drucker, the more retiring and ascetic Doriot might have become as famous in his time.
Aurbindo Gosh left independent struggle and went on to become a Ascetic.
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He shed all vestiges of his comfortable life, giving up possessions and money, and lived as an ascetic who called himself Alexander Supertramp.
Sometimes, the story is an unabashed diary: In "The Mountain Ascetic, " a man walking home is haunted by visions of his dead brother.
Sir Thomas, an ascetic former civil servant, was appointed by Gordon Brown, the prime minister, to study every expenses claim for the past five years.
It was a room out of Vincent Van Gogh somehow - you know, ascetic - a bed, a cot, really, against the wall, a window and an upright piano.
Like running a marathon or summiting a mountain, hiking 60 miles in a week while adhering to an ascetic diet is a chance to prove what you're made of.
Though not so private as his architectural counterpart, the Dutch-born "plantsman" (as he humbly calls himself) is also something of an ascetic, living and working far from the madding crowd in a bucolic retreat.
In reaction to the pyrotechnics of bebop, with its blizzards of notes and relentless complexities of harmony, Davis presented an ascetic simplicity, with spare melodic improvisations over modal harmonies so static they nearly drone.
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Mr Van Rompuy, a haiku-writing ascetic and devout Roman Catholic, has little experience of EU summitry, but years of training in the management of fractious partners, thanks to long service in multilingual coalition Belgian governments.
Torn between this unorthodox faith and a more conventionally ascetic spirituality, Rasputin set off on foot on a two-year pilgrimage around Russia and then to the Holy Land, pushing himself to the brink of starvation and sanity.
Though the building has had many enemies over the years (even the Catholic Church, to which Gaudi devoted much of his ascetic life while working on the basilica, did not consecrate the building until last year) it has survived and thrived.
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The movie's title, with its religious overtones, is a literal reference to the railway station where Leo Tolstoy died a few days after leaving his wife and home, presumably to become a wandering ascetic (though he brought his personal physician with him).
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He drank moderately over the course of two meals I shared with him, leaving some very good juice in his glasses at the end, and he is by his own description positively ascetic when he's on the road, eating sparingly, spitting dutifully.
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Malcolm, who achieved fame in the early sixties as a compelling spokesman for the black-pride philosophy of the Nation of Islam, is an unlikely hero for a big-studio prestige picture: he begins as a predatory street criminal, becomes a studious Muslim ascetic, and fulfills himself as a scourge.
Walk by the Latter-day Saints church on the Upper East Side of New York, and you will see only images of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels, even if the Mormon Jesus looks more corn-fed and burly than the gaunt, ascetic one in the Protestant church around the corner.
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