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Recent Examples of monastic
Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
The starkness and almost monastic modernity of it is incredible.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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Adjective
Harari’s monastic aura gives him a powerful allure in Silicon Valley, where he is revered.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
The starkness and almost monastic modernity of it is incredible.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
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Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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The level at the very top makes former communist leaders appear positively ascetic.Gregory Feifer, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2016
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Adams, running for office, made gestures at his own ascetic habits, passing himself off as a vegan.Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force.Matt Seyler, ABC News, 10 May 2022
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The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University.New York Times, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2017
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Benedict: Benedict has been in regular rotation ever since St. Benedict founded the Benedictine order of monks in the early middle ages.Anna Moeslein, Parents, 26 Oct. 2024
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At Weihenstephan, which was founded as a brewery in 1040 by Benedictine monks, nonalcoholic wheat beer and lager now make up 10% of the volume.Stefanie Dazio, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
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Obama has retreated into monkish silence, broken only for special occasions such as celebrity deaths and the recording of Bruce Springsteen podcasts.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024
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Cillian Murphy is not sitting at home in monkish penury.Vulture, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2024
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The abrupt appearance and disappearance of the mendicant pilgrim is part of her power.Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 Apr. 2023
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No doubt the traditional tunic and mantle of his mendicant religious order met some standard of austerity when they were adopted in the Middle Ages.Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 2 Jan. 2021
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Dreher, who was close with Vance at the time, introduced him to a group of Dominican friars in Washington.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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In recent years, Joe cooked for the friars at St. Francis and at 1883 Kitchen at Kroger, Downtown.Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
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Something has changed, not in church law or doctrine but in moral theology and the pastoral application of sacramental discipline.Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
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Many of them walk to Mass from nearby apartments and could be cut off from the sacramental life if OLV is shuttered.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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“Monastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monastic. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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