All 3 Uses of
ascetic
in
The Fountainhead
- His face was drawn, austere in cruelty, ascetic in passion, the cheeks sunken, the lips pulled down, set tight.†
Chpt 2.2
- Heller looked at them and thought that it was almost indecent to see them together: Roark's tall, ascetic figure, with that proud cleanliness peculiar to long-lined bodies, and beside him the smiling ball of meat whose decision could mean so much.†
Chpt 2.6
- Then she did not want him to stop or glance at her, because she wanted to watch the ascetic purity of his person, the absence of all sensuality; to watch that—and to think of what she remembered.
Chpt 2.8 *ascetic = characteristic of someone who practices self-denial
Definition:
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(ascetic) someone who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth); or relating to such self-denial
or:
severely plain (without decoration)