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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brocklehurst visits the school to lecture the students on self-denial and the horrors of the lusts of the flesh.
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But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.
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By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame.
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For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.
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Second, to remove the standard dessert from the menu would penalise all those people who derive pleasure from conspicuous self-denial .
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She had always shown patience and self-denial when it came to the matter of other people's inventions.
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There is the self-denial of the musician who devotes all her time and energy to mastering her musical instrument.
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Virginity, voluntary poverty, and self-denial had long been admired.