Example Sentences

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According to the paper, private self-cultivation would be permitted to a limited extent.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2022

In Japanese culture, everyday aesthetic practices are a moral and religious form of self-cultivation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

On one hand: the Aristotelian ideal of self-cultivation, continuous progress toward a telos.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2017

China’s patrician culture, unlike its avatars on TV, had an ethos of supreme refinement based on xiushen, the Confucian notion of self-cultivation.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

There is no greater possibility existing in the child's educational life than the possibility of self-cultivation in the reading of great books.

From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton