Adjective : a monastic library. ,monastic vows. From Dictionary.com.
He was the sole human here, monastically lodged and nourished. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The more austere and monastically inclined Theravada regard Sariputta as a second founder. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha]
But the existence of the monastically quiet Ralphs in Compton reflects something quite different: advocacy. From Wordnik.com. [Cultivating Failure] Reference
He monastically denies himself earthly pleasures or so he claims in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling. From Wordnik.com. [It’s not offensive because I say it’s not] Reference
He monastically denies himself earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling. From Wordnik.com. [Narcissistic Leaders] Reference
His onetime band member John Coltrane, as monastically pure an artist and as earnest a man as ever lived, once said he envied Dizzy's lightness of heart - "that beautiful gift.". From Wordnik.com. [Jazz's Last Hero Trumpeter] Reference
But I am not as concerned with Berman's missteps because his abiding conviction that we must quietly, monastically pursue the preservation of what is best about our culture — our history, our literature and music, our scientific knowledge, our ability to critically reason — resonates with me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-10-01] Reference
He monastically denied himself earthly pleasures (or so he claimed) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
On Tuesday, while his teammates monastically slogged through an 8: 30 a.m. practice, he was more animated than the Tasmanian devil. From Wordnik.com. [SI.com] Reference
It's the hyper-focused, monastically dutiful nerd, indispensable to any manned space mission, whose existence in meaningful numbers I doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage] Reference
The crescent of hair which monastically fringed the back of his head, otherwise completely bald, ended at the ears in little tufts of gray mingled with black. From Wordnik.com. [The Lily of the Valley] Reference
This part of the Ile, which is called "the Cloister," has preserved the character of all cloisters; it is damp, cold, and monastically silent even at the noisiest hours of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference
Gregory, John Robison, John Playfair, and Dugald Stewart; none of them confined monastically to their books, but all -- except Robison, who was in bad health -- partaking of the enjoyments of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852] Reference
It was thus that, cloaked and monastically hooded over her evening costume, this woman, full of endurance and compassion, stood by the side of the bed on which the splendid Capataz de Cargadores lay stretched out motionless on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard] Reference
The Car Czar and his team were almost monastically averse to politics, and were shocked when people noticed that their bailout plans overwhelmingly favored the Democrats 'UAW allies and other constituencies because political considerations had never entered their perfect, innocent heads. From Wordnik.com. [Moonbattery] Reference
The streets, all grave and mellow in the sunset, seemed to applaud this after-dinner stroll; the entrance quad of his old college -- spaciously majestic, monastically modern, for years the heart of his universe, the focus of what had gone before it in his life, casting the shadow of its grey walls over all that had come after-brought him a sense of rest from conflict, and trust in his own important safety. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
Various theories have been put forward to explain the paucity of information on Obama’s New York years: Obama claims he was monastically reading philosophy and taking long walks. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Obama Family And The CIA] Reference
Whatever we may think of the arguments on the subject, it is impossible to deny that the monastic idea appealed powerfully to the young cleric's temperament, and that he himself in after years was not only at home when duty or accident threw him among the solitaries, but was so monastically self-disciplined in his habits as to be spoken of as an "ascetic" (Apol. c. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Alastair Cook's monastically abstinent century. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It has an almost monastically austere interior. From Wordnik.com. [Gazette.com :] Reference
He monastically denies himself earthly pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [The Pink Flamingo] Reference
Hogarth, as he passed out, placed the vials on the shelf over his door, where they were secure, since cells were never searched; and, the bathers having formed in single file, five feet between man and man, away they moved and down -- away and down -- lost in space, treading the journey of galleries, till, at the bottom, they passed up a vaulted corridor, monastically dim, across a yard open to starry sky, and into the door of a semi-detached, steep-roofed building, which was the bath-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Sea] Reference
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