Mr van rompuy , a haiku-writing ascetic and devout roman catholic , has little experience of eu summitry , but years of training in the management of fractious partners , thanks to long service in multilingual coalition belgian governments .
But while mr trichet and mr lamy represent an ascetic side of public life , the suave and affable mr strauss-kahn is a champagne socialist with a famous wife , noted for his people skills and a flexible political philosophy .
In the scene , readers are introduced to an examiner with the last name of hovatter , who is practicing a form of " ascetic frugality " in his personal life , so that he can afford to take off a full year of work .
Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic .
从古至今,权力都是苦行者的罪恶嗜好。
When abstinence is the only choice , an ascetic frame of mind comes easy .
当节制成为唯一的选择时,苦行者的念头就来得很容易。
Jobs is routinely photographed on a stage holding an apple product , evidently pleased with his success yet with an ascetic appearance that has always said I care more about the product than the personal success .
Adolf hitler and winston churchill . It was a rivalry that pitted a member of the petit bourgeoisie against a son of the aristocracy , an ascetic against a hedonist , and ideologue against a pragmatist , a murderer against an adventurer , a racist revolutionary against an imperial political realist .