monastically

We have a secular clergy, but their Church is monastically organised.

He was the sole human here, monastically lodged and nourished.

Sacred music and iconic art is performed by monastically trained men.

Chant monastically in the old silos near the pier after dark.

As the artist sits in his monastically spare skiff, the landscape and painting seem to happen around him.

They are seeking a more direct communication in which religiousness is explicit and monastically severe.

He also affected an almost monastically plain uniform, one whose only ornaments were the stars on his shoulder straps.

The wine is bone dry - nay, monastically austere: a perfect aperitif.

Wamba is a tall 28-year-old who has inherited his father's steam-shovel jaw and almost monastically serious demeanor.

It was a monastically simple room; the walls and ceiling were painted a uniform white, contrasting against the all-black fittings.

A bed frame, left, with a burled redwood headboard looks monastically simple but is elegant and delicately crafted.

Less Than Ascetic One need not live monastically when visiting French priories.

Father Freeman, 63, agreed, saying that the New Melleray community had also had to root around for monastically appropriate ways to earn money.

The motto of the florilegia was monastically influenced, urging the reader to patience through adversity, exercise of virtue, and constant striving to perfection.

The chamber was an ellipse of low eccentricity, monastically bare and furnished only with a heavy wooden table and nine chairs, now drawn back against the wall.

His small room at the Hotel Royal, a few blocks north of the Liceu on Barcelona's famed Ramblas promenade, looked monastically neat.

He was aware of the choking reek of chloroform, and when he woke he was in a bed in a sunny but monastically furnished room.

The Scottish Catholic Celtic Church originally had marked liturgical and ecclesiological differences from the rest of Western Christendom, being monastically led.

In the Roman Catholic Church, for example, it has been practiced monastically by Trappists since 1666 and among Protestants by Seventh- Day Adventists.

The plays are both liturgical and non-liturgical (specifically those pertaining to St. Nicholas), and may be performed both monastically and non-monastically, as the text does not specify.

Sure, women actually wore the monastically understated fashions of the 1990's, he explained, but that didn't mean they liked them, "especially not the women who are rich and with personality," he said.

There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period.

She said she wore it monastically while filming, having decided it was a literal reference to Gogol's short story "The Overcoat," which figures into "The Namesake."

Other than these architectural antiques - Mr. Colbert calls them "things outside time" - he has few possessions and lives simply, even monastically, sleeping graduate-school style with a mattress on the floor.

While granting that Mr. Clifford was extremely able, Mr. Frantz and Mr. McKean also portray him as having hardly been a monastically selfless public servant.