monkish nell'Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Inglese americano

Esempi monolingue (non verificati dalla Redazione di PONS)

inglese
But while his kind of devotion to the seemingly simple is often characterised as monkish, he talks, in fact, of the sensuality of material, the luxury of craftsmanship.
www.ft.com
There is a real tension between his excessive happiness and his monkish lifestyle.
www.counterpunch.org
Tall and bald with a hearty laugh, the retired interior designer is neither monkish nor zealous.
www.ctvnews.ca
There was, as there remains, something monkish about his submission to austere forms and procedures.
www.newyorker.com
It is fast, finger-burning work, and if you fail to keep up you soon find that a stern look is evidently not considered outside the monkish calling.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Before, we associated the ascetic with monkish values, the valorisation of chastity, a life of deprivation.
www.studentpulse.com
Because while they may train like professional athletes, and lead the ascetic, monkish lifestyle of professionals, these men are amateurs.
www.independent.ie
It is almost monkish in its aesthetic asceticism.
www.ft.com
His birth was seen as miraculous; his monkish father had despaired of having a male heir after three wives.
en.wikipedia.org
Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...
www.abc.net.au

Vuoi aggiungere una parola, una frase o una traduzione?

Inserisci una nuova voce.

Cerca nel dizionario

inglese

Cerca "monkish" in altre lingue


Pagina in Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Español | Français | Italiano | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Srpski | 中文
Cerca nei dizionari
I più amati