10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONKISHNESS»
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monkishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
monkishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Demonic: Literature and Experience
That is intellectual monkishness, a learned over-refinement deeply contemptuous
oflife and nature both, which sees the barbaric precisely in life and nature, in
directness, in humanity, feeling. Biron [Berowne] himself, who puts in some good
...
2
A Dictionary of Tocharian B.: Revised and Greatly Enlarged
... monks' (318a1C); —anmrñe* 'state of being a novice, novitiate,' only in the
derived adjective: anmrñee: 'prtng to the novitiate': amññee anmrñee upsakñee
savarne 'in search of monkishness, the novitiate, or laybrotherhood' (15a6/17a7C
).
Adams, Douglas Q. Adams, 2013
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Local Self-Government and Centralization: the ...
lightened Protestant spirit of'some of the English Fathers of Reformation with the
gloomy monkishness which has been growing in our day. An illustration of the
latter has been given in a previous note (see p.238). For something of the former,
...
Joshua Toulmin Smith, 1851
For example, the thrice-repeated mocktrinitarian motif within the same passage
symbolizes Stephen's medieval monkishness: the “three daily chaplets” offered
up for the “three theological virtues,” or the “thrice triple prayer he offered to the ...
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Local Self-government and centralization: the ...
In the next place, those in power found the name and pretended designs of
Romish lightened Protestant spirit of some of the English Fathers of Reformation
with the gloomy monkishness which has heen growing in our day. An illustration
of ...
Joshua Toulmin Smith, 1851
6
Linking Environment, Democracy and Gender
It is in this spirit, Chekhov writes: Going away from the city, from struggle, from the
noise of life – that is not life, that is egoism, laziness, that is some sort of
monkishness, but a monkishness without selfdenial. (Chekhov, 1977, p. 58, cited
in van ...
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Joyce & Jung: The "four Stages of Eroticism" in A Portrait ...
For example, the thrice-repeated mock- trinitarian motif within the same passage
symbolizes Stephen's medieval monkishness: the "three daily chaplets" offered
up for the "three theological virtues," or the "thrice triple prayer he offered to the ...
8
Shakespeare and European Politics
That was what the Romantic School stood for, and in that agenda, so Heine
argued, the monkishness of Spanish examples fit better than the humanism of
Shakespeare: The translation of Shakespeare, who already smiles into our own
modern ...
Dirk Delabastita, Jozef de Vos, Paul Franssen, 2008
9
The House in Russian Literature: A Mythopoetic Exploration
... monkishness, but a monkishness without self-denial. Man does not need three
arshins of land, not an estate, but the entire earth globe, all of nature, where he
can give free play to all the qualities and peculiarities of his free spirit in freedom.
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The frontiers of paradise: a study of monks and monasteries
Monkishness To the question, what are monks like? I have found to my surprise
that the answer is curiously simple. They have a great deal in common which cuts
across differences of rule, culture, climate, language and religious belief.
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONKISHNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
monkishness is used in the context of the following news items.
Distant Emotions
... quandaries of drone deployment, I think, than by the sheer sensory oddity of this new ritual, with its compound of monkishness and mayhem. «The New Yorker, May 15»
Sleeping in separate bedrooms is paradise
What will we do when the three months of enforced monkishness are over? I seem to remember from our previous two kids that for the first few ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»
The Writer and the Potter: Edmund De Waal on his New York Debut
Looking at the space around us, there's an air of calm and solitude and monkishness and Zen, but in recent years you've been right in the ... «Daily Beast, Sep 13»
Live: Fred Hersch Digs In At The Village Vanguard
... his Monkishness ("Dream Of Monk," "Skipping") was more earthy and the pieces that exhibited classicism ("Sarabande," "Boy") found Hersch ... «Village Voice, Sep 12»
Great Works: The Copper drinking Fountain, 1734 (28cm x 23cm …
Its aura of sacredness is comically enhanced by its dull, coppery gleam, which also gives it a hint of monkishness. Monk and bishop all in one ... «The Independent, Jul 11»
Stella McCartney: I'm a guilty working mother
I don't go out partying much. ” Without wishing to cast doubt on his monkishness, he was speaking at the launch of a vodka brand, Vestal. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 11»
Bow Down to the Yoga Teacher
Now certain teachers display all the monkishness of Keith Richards cooling his heels in the greenroom as adoring fans reach a peak of ... «Newsweek, Feb 11»
Hate preacher 'knew 7/7 bomber'
"Monkishness", he said, was wrong. By the time Faisal had got to the seventeenth human instinct I was famished, and when he finally finished ... «BBC News, Jun 08»
