On the day when it begins to discipline itself with a self-denying ordinance we shall know it has begun to grow up. |
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Mindlessly devoted and masochistically self-denying, he is held up as the truest expression of hobbithood. |
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We operated in this war with a self-denying ordinance that we wouldn't get any of our soldiers killed. |
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Are also a broom in the Hand of God all those who give themselves in a self-denying full of love, forgetting themselves. |
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The most notable and most respected in your church and society is the most serviceable and the most humble and self-denying. |
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Maybe this is better than self-denying ascetic teenage subculture anarchism. |
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Sargent is portrayed as modest, self-denying and unambitious, the antithesis of the preening Oxford peacocks. |
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There are hundreds of small, realistic problems to be faced every week, and both senior partners in the family must be prepared for patient and self-denying hard work. |
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He denies that his prophecy is self-denying. |
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But code switching is something many women, gay and other minority ethnic people will recognise: a self-denying ordinance forced upon us within any place dominated by straight, white, middle-class men. |
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His self-denying ordinance was understandable. |
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Proust was almost uniquely self-abasing, seeming to believe that the nature of friendship demanded that he turn into the most compliant and self-denying of figures. |
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Actually, I persuaded myself that it isĀ ludicrous to be so self-denying. |
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The two figures, one highly individualised, dedicated to self-assertion and pleasure-seeking, the other ascetic and self-denying, are sharply contrasted. |
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