How to Use "ascetic" with Example Sentences

1. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic .

2. When abstinence is the only choice , an ascetic frame of mind comes easy .

3. Jobs is routinely photographed on a stage holding an apple product , evidently pleased with his success yet with an ascetic appearance that has always said I care more about the product than the personal success .

4. Adolf hitler and winston churchill . It was a rivalry that pitted a member of the petit bourgeoisie against a son of the aristocracy , an ascetic against a hedonist , and ideologue against a pragmatist , a murderer against an adventurer , a racist revolutionary against an imperial political realist .

5. Photograph by michael yamashita a hindu ascetic , or sadhu , wrapped in a bright-red cloth , smokes underneath a vad ( banyan ) tree outside a temple in mumbai ( bombay ) , india .