The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.

He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features.

Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to attending such shows as dancing, singing, music, displays, recitations, hand-music, cymbals and drums, fairy-shows, acrobatic and conjuring tricks, combats of elephants, buffaloes, bulls, goats, rams, cocks and quail, fighting with staves, boxing, wrestling, sham-fights, parades, manoeuvres and military reviews, the ascetic Gotama refrains from attending such displays.

I may be an ascetic, but I appreciate a good meal.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

He lives an ascetic lifestyle.

She lives an ascetic lifestyle.