How to Use ascetic in a Sentence

ascetic

adjective

• His father is a pastor with an ascetic hatred of the body.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• There is an ascetic aspect to him that is very genuine.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
• There was still an epicure lurking in her ascetic heart.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• Stanislavski saw his students as votaries in an ascetic cult.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• Ichiro is sleek and lithe, his ascetic face framed by wraparound shades.
  — Alex Belth, Esquire, 2 Apr. 2017
• To other people, his ascetic life might not have looked like freedom.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• But, this isn’t an ascetic boot camp — the resort is pure luxury.
  — Sandra Ramani, Robb Report, 7 May 2022
• Around the sixth century, a group of ascetic monks withdrew from society to crags rising from the ocean.
  — National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• His ascetic life is an attempt to impose order on the painful messiness of his memories.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• An ascetic who rises early to exercise, Khama seems to care more for the facts than flattery.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• Quirky and austere, air plants achieve ascetic transcendence.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• Kanojia went on to tell the story of the aristocrat who became an ascetic, who taught that life is suffering.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
• Putting one on the sleek, black rectangle of your iPhone thus concocts a syrupy mélange of lithe modernism and ascetic medievalism.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2019
• As such, the public areas downstairs are decidedly ascetic, as were rural homes of the era.
  — Tom Delavan, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• But Carlos turned out to be something of an ascetic, and that guided his career in several ways.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 June 2023
• And his behavior, in his last days, casts a shadow over his reputation as an ascetic.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 28 July 2014
• He was also known for living an ascetic lifestyle, often dressing in a loincloth and shawl only.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• The monks’ ascetic practices include sleep deprivation and a thousand-day walk.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022
• Get our daily newsletter The shift away from this ascetic stance started shortly after the election.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• They were hidden in jars in caves near Qumran, home to members of an ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes.
  — Andrew Lawler, National Geographic, 2 June 2020
• The result is an ascetic style, well suited to both evisceration and incantation.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2020
• The partnership between her mind and Harris’s seems to flourish in that more ascetic environment.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2022
• The monks who surrendered their property, or never had any to begin with, could choose among several forms of ascetic living.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• The apartment is furnished in a crisp, ascetic version of mid-century masculinity.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2016
• Sneaks, practices a rigorously minimal form of post-punk that borders on ascetic.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• But what, besides a lifetime of ascetic eating, actually works?
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• On the remote, swampy world of Dagobah, Luke is taught the ways of the Jedi by a goblin-like ascetic known as Yoda.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• Now after years of ascetic devotion, San Diego’s most quirky eco-warrior may be winning the battle for hearts and minds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
• With Bob, there is a kind of ascetic renunciation in his suffering that borders on the spiritual.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• Beckett’s work was famously free from concerns with conventional storytelling and unafraid of silence, spare to the point of ascetic.
  — Kathleen Rooney, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024