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Sentence count:36Posted:2017-05-06Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: self-deprecatingself-determinationdenialmenialgenialvenialdeniablecongenialMeaning: n. 1. the trait of practicing self discipline 2. the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses 3. renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others. 
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1. Should motherhood necessarily mean sacrifice and self-denial?
2. By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame.
3. Virginity, voluntary poverty, and self-denial had long been admired.
4. She had always shown patience and self-denial when it came to the matter of other people's inventions.
5. For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.
6. Self-denial and self-help, however, would make a poor rallying cry for the hustings.
7. But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.
8. In my own case it is by self-denial, by acting against my own inclination, that self-control is confirmed and strengthened.
9. The chilly wind of February brought the annual self-denial appeal.
10. There is the self-denial of the musician who devotes all her time and energy to mastering her musical instrument.
11. Self-hatred or self-denial would be my best guess.
12. However, because of the self-denial characteristic of wisdom changed the meaning of "loving wisdom" into "pursuing knowledge" in later development.
13. "There is no moral virtue today attributed to self-denial," says Yankelovich.
14. But such willpower and self-denial is rare - sad cases like the Rockefellers and Hiltons are more common.
15. All of the self-discipline and all of the self-denial in the world can do nothing -- this seems to be one of the implications of this poem - can do nothing to protect the poet from an untimely death.
16. Brave Orchid embodies an archetypal Chinese attitude of self-denial and self-abnegation for the good of the community—the very qualities that "No-Name Woman" lacks.
17. Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the result of prudence on rascality.
18. If you fail, or if your self-denial ends in a three-day catch-up orgy,[Sentencedict.com ] seek help.
19. I hate those acts of righteous self-denial that people do just so they can brag about them: health cleanses, bow hunting, reclaiming your virginity.
20. I gave it up ... self-denial is where I come a cropper.
21. He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.
22. Their dangerous, uncontrolled sexuality is destined to be muted by the life-long practice of inhuman austerities and self-denial.
23. Write down further examples of where you yourself are aware of episodes of self-denial in order to help the addict in your life.
24. Brocklehurst visits the school to lecture the students on self-denial and the horrors of the lusts of the flesh.
25. Second, to remove the standard dessert from the menu would penalise all those people who derive pleasure from conspicuous self-denial.
26. Humanity gently found "self-" in hell lane and self-deception. The self-deception is that the works will show to readers that the human self-denial and self-contradiction.
27. What's the point of all of this study, all of this work, ?" all of this self-denial if I could just wind up" ? - this is a good question -- if I could just wind up dead tomorrow?
28. When critics say he is in denial, he agrees. But it is healthy self-denial, he says, which he likens to a recovering alcoholic resisting a drink.
29. There is one moral; the love that springs forth from self-denial and blooms in deeds of beneficence.
30. Far from being born in sin and condemned to find salvation only self-denial, we are basically good and happy beings, and can realize that fact by consciously believing it is true.
More similar words: self-deprecatingself-determinationdenialmenialgenialvenialdeniablecongenialundeniablyundeniableuncongenialself-confidenceself-selfitselfoneselfhimselfselfishof itselfby itselfin itselfeugeniaby yourselfby himselfselflessself-pitysloveniaarmenianunselfishselfishly
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