Sentences with phrase «as a monk»

The story finds MacGruber living as a monk in Ecuador when he is pulled out of retirement by the U.S. military.

Using no - calorie sweeteners such as monk fruit in place of regular sweeteners can help you reduce your total daily calorie intake, keeping you within your calorie budget.

In fact, research has shown that using low - or no - calorie sweeteners such as monk fruit sweeteners in place of regular sweeteners can help you lower your total daily calorie intake, keeping you within your calorie budget.

And the founder lived as a monk for 10 years and has a dashing British accent.

Richard Armitage co-stars as a knight enforcing the Norman occupation of Ireland who accompanies the group for awhile, and John Lynch and Hugh O'Conor appear as monks who aren't quite ready for the viciousness of the world beyond the monastery.

These all - natural products are made from the fruit Lo Han Guo (also known as monk fruit.)

You can browse local art at Bereznitskiy Gallery and wander through caverns that serve as monk mausoleums at Kievo - Pecherska Lavra.

«Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience,» he later wrote.

A new generation of monks is involving itself widely in educational and social projects, as well as spiritual counseling for the many visiting pilgrims, just as monks did in medieval Russia.

How many became truly literate I do not know, but because so many spent time as monks, literacy was probably more widely spread in Thailand than in Medieval Europe.

These humanoids are known as Monks which have been greatly feared for their immense power but with their help, Greenwood may finally regain their peaceful state.

The influence of Shiraga's training as a monk in the 1960s may be what we see in his later works.

This is very deceptive and unfortunately far too many companies are tricking consumers by advertising a combination product as monk fruit alone.

Between 2003 - 06, he worked at a Buddhist temple as a monk in Tokyo, Japan.

For instance, if a player has a hard time playing a witch doctor because a lot of his abilities seem to require timing, the player could play as a monk instead: charge in, let everybody surround the monk, and then blast them with area of effect attacks.

Writing and photographs by Sarah Malmude Dutiful as a monk, Hyon Gyon is found each day in Harlem: attacking, ripping an...

The words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their human journey in terms of vocation.

Iliodor was a protégé of Archbishop Germogen, who, before being tonsured as a monk, had castrated himself to achieve moral perfection.

Hence, I am also not a big fan of Buddha leaving his calling to wander about, nor any of those who feel they should go around begging as monks or as those who believe in loafing while others bust their buts.

Some Christians gave up all their possessions and lived as hermits, and later as monks.

One more point, according to the epistle of James, the prayer of the righteous are effective, therefore as the monks heal their souls, their prayers for the world will also become more effective (less about them, more about the salvation of the world).

Though I can't imagine the close relationship these monks share with God, I would also want to complete the last two parts of my Christian worldview which I feel can not be accomplished as a monk.

It could be argued that Merton as a monk solitary proved his relevance to modern Catholic life precisely in that peculiar angle of vision which his hermitage afforded him.

The 74 - year - old told jurors he had been having doubts about his vocation as a monk for about 10 years, but insisted he never went to Kosovo because he was guilty.

When I had completed my commitment as a monk and returned to the UK, it was very much with the intention of making meditation more accessible.

It was only one day, thankfully, because DR - Dad doesn't exactly have a career as a monk ahead of him.

It helps to remember that the man with whom you are intimately involved in your other life is not living as a monk with his wife.

It stars Eddie Redmayne as a monk who leads Ulric (Sean Bean) and his band of warriors to a remote village rumored to have renounced God and house a necromancer, someone with the ability to raise the dead.

MacGruber (Forte) is working as a monk in a South American village when Col. James Faith (Powers Boothe, clearly enjoying himself) pays a visit.

(The striking production design gives Lars a garage apartment that's cold and bare as a monk's cell, and overdresses him in too many layers of clothes — they're among those perfect details that hint of what it's like to be Lars.)

Among the lesser roles, Hong Kong action star Yen has some good moments as a monk trying desperately but unsuccessfully to connect with the Force, and Tudyk is customarily droll as K - 2SO, the saucy droid whose rebel reprogramming has resulted in his saying «whatever comes into his circuits.»

Even though Wolfgang Schreiber, who pulls the strings at Bentley and Bugatti is as tight - lipped as a monk, the lower ranks confirm that the flying B has actually started clapping its wings again to catch up with the competition.

That understanding is helping government and private conservation groups develop monitoring and management plans to help protect not only endangered species, such as the monk seal, but all at - risk marine mammals.»

Over 40 people watched in silence as the monk repeatedly penetrated my flesh like a sewing machine.

These are people who are wearing same colour clothes as a monk, asking for donations or reading horoscopes.

After a siege led by the King in an effort to recover his children, Foltest is taken by surprise and murdered by a man dressed as a monk.

In Shiraga's case, after a period of dissatisfaction with painting and his ordainment as a monk, he began to incorporate a circular shape corresponding to the Wheel of Life in Buddhist iconography.

So does Gray, who isn't licensed to practice psychology but is allowed to work as a «spiritual counselor» in California because of his nine - year stint as a monk.

Later in the 19th century, it was named after the famous Renaissance Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola — as monks typically have folding chairs in their small rooms.

Gray lived as a monk for nine years, which helped him to learn about solitude and serenity.

In Thailand I understand that all males were encouraged to spend some time as monks.

I never really thought of it as a career, nor do I now, more just continuing what I had done as a monk which was teaching meditation.

My main source of inspiration continues to be my teachers with whom I trained as a monk.