Sentences with phrase «abnegation remains»

Traditional attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese, more disposed than Americans to pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part of Indian identity.

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We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer, came to San Francisco on «other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in at the Museum of Modern Art, where he glanced at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through at MoMA in New York») and looked both at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project of self - abnegation on a monumental scale that we observe in his own most ambitious abstractions?»