self-deprivation

The self-deprivation reinforced standards of cultural behavior that were important to me.

Carnival developed as a last indulgence before a period of self-deprivation.

Before women can lead others they must throw off their feelings of inferiority and self-deprivation.

On the other hand, self-deprivation and extreme dietary control have become idealized.

I'm one of those irritating guys who try to convert self-deprivation into a virtue.

"It's like joining a convent in terms of self-deprivation," a choreographer says.

In some circumstances these priests would go without food, water, sleep and engage in other forms of self-deprivation.

"Can't" sounds more like punishment than being healthy, researchers say, and it creates a sense of self-deprivation that can tank your motivation.

"Too much self-deprivation makes one into a prune.

And it will also affect our understanding of such virtuous behaviours as sharing resources, self-deprivation and the drive for knowledge.

Moderation is the cornerstone of mindfulness: Avoid self-deprivation and feast/famine behaviour.

It does not tolerate self-deprivation any more than it tolerates indulgence and license.

The spirit of fortitude - Marie's patience grew from her piety of self-deprivation.

His body bore the weakness which comes from years of self-deprivation and ferocious austerities.)

But he was anxious to escape from the aimless and undirected self-deprivation which characterized eastern monasticism.

These involved self-deprivation of food and water, and exposing themselves to the elements to near-death for six years, at which point Siddhartha rejected self-mortification.

Low carbohydrate (CHO), high protein diets, promising quick weight loss without hunger or self-deprivation, are the rage.

In the sense that there’s no guilt, there’s no denial, there’s no self-deprivation.”

A reviewer for this paper has called him “a modern-day desert father, seeking transcendence in self-deprivation, solitude and steadfast meditation on his mortality.”

Think of the years wasted: the years wrapped in black velvet, the years of self-deprivation, the decades of shameful neglect.

Consumers are planning to cut back on spending for Christmas, but without resorting to Scrooge-like levels of self-deprivation, according to an annual survey of festive sentiment.

The younger generation of superambitious super-rich seems to have applied a new Puritan ethic of hard work and self-deprivation toward the enlargement of personal riches.

Although he didn't expect to find the last two under a Saivite's roofthe cult was notorious for its self-deprivation and austerities, as their skeletally thin figures proved.

Childs's own feats of asceticism are nothing if not awe-inspiring: he's a modern-day desert father, seeking transcendence in self-deprivation, solitude and steadfast meditation on his mortality.

Obsessions, insecurity, low self-esteem, unconscious eating patterns, extremes of binging and self-deprivation, feelings of inadequacy, a feeling of lack and so forth are touched.