self-denial

How To Use self-denial In A Sentence

• American schools in the early nineteenth century taught children to avoid the “frivolities” of play and to make themselves “useful” through the exercise of self-denial. A Renegade History of the United States
• There is here a kind of self-denial and demand for trust which a man might very well hate and resent.
• Combine these qualities of self-denial and there is a propensity for deep unhappiness.
• On the precept of self-denial he takes notice, that by it Christ commands us, first, to be crucified to our own flesh and will; secondly, to spare ourselves in nothing; thirdly, not only to deny ourselves, but thoroughly to deny ourselves; by this little particle _thoroughly_, adding great force to his precept. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
• Many also practised severe austerities, subjecting themselves to extremes of temperature, hunger and thirst, painful bodily distortions, and various other kinds of self-denial.
• That year, a letter to the Newport Mercury, authored by “Frugality,” continued the redefinition of American freedom as self-denial: “We may talk and boast of liberty; but after all, the industrious and frugal only will be free.” A Renegade History of the United States
• For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.
• Push a gay person to a point of shame and self-denial — the closet is a far worse place than you can imagine, and leads to far more destructive behavior than you realize. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
• Should motherhood necessarily mean sacrifice and self-denial?
• Waves of immigrant parents worked hard and practiced self-denial so their children could succeed.