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He managed to work so hard and so steadily, to be so self-denying and steadfast about saving money, that he paid my way through an Ivy League college.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2021

But he’s not by nature the self-denying type: as soon as the movie wrapped, he spent three days on a couch eating mozzarella and bone marrow and drinking wine.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2018

Keleş, who has since left the movement, said that while Gülen presented himself as a humble, self-denying cleric, in private he was entirely different: vain, megalomaniacal, demanding total obedience.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

But Judge Lindsey marveled at the “strenuous, strict, and self-denying conventions of the strange Flapper-Flipper world she lived in.”

From Time • May 18, 2016

I most cheerfully admit that thousands and thousands of ministers are endeavoring to do good—that they are pure, self-denying men, trying to make this world better.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green