How To Use Puritanical In A Sentence
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Sleeping Beauty is one of those art-house films that has a puritanical dislike for entertainment or simple cinematic pleasures.
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They are no longer puritanical and oriented to obeying an authoritarian God.
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Veronica has no regard for puritanical ideologies or passively sexless females in her quest for self-realization through sexual freedom.
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Not only is his play anti-puritanical, but it recognizes without censoriousness the strength of the sexual urge and the intense pleasure it offers.
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People dont like these kind of pictures , it offends them specially the so called puritanical Muslims..but show them the pictures of the havoc on Iraqi streets , the jehhadi attacks, limbless bodies, they wont find fault with it, as all this spiritual terrorism against Humanity is condoned for the greater glory of Misguided Martydom and radical Islam..
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The hero, as such, played by Edward Woodward, is a rather prissy, puritanical character, and a devout Christian.
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That puritanical attitude often carries with it a lot of hypocrisy.
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It may or may not be dangerous depending on how puritanically the dogma part is enforced or implemented.
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Temperance was inspired by evangelical Christianity and puritanical moralism.
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she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
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Their parents had a puritanical streak and didn't approve of dancing.
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Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives.
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We're getting pretty annoyed by this puritanical attitude that sexuality is evil.
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The atmosphere at the school was oppressively puritanical.
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Philippians 'renewed thought of him is likened to a tree's putting forth its buds in a gracious springtide, and may link with it the pretty fancy of an old commentator whom some people call prosaic and puritanical
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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We have a vast number of Puritanical sadists in Congress whose entire mission in life is to deny pleasure to others.
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They think our attempts to legislate morality are barbaric, puritanical and doomed to failure.
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But there is a puritanical streak.
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From the start, the concept of parading women on stage - fully clothed or not - has always been a contentious issue, making Miss World a prime target for negative media attention and the scorn of puritanical groups.
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On the other hand, the Wahhabi movement in Arabia in the eighteenth century represents both a strict, puritanical reading of the works, and a rejection of the itjihad tradition, considered to be responsible for internal decay.
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The edamame was hot and steamy rather than puritanically cold and clammy.
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I know, 'cried Eugénie de Netteville at last, standing at bay before him, her hands locked before her, her white lips quivering, when her cup of shame was full, and her one impulse left was to strike the man who had humiliated her --' I know that you and your puritanical wife are miserable -- _miserable_.
Robert Elsmere
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By time, this puritanical attitude has fortunately changed and the opera is now unanimously regarded as a total masterpiece.
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LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.
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They were as puritanical, censorious, and hypocritical as any priest-ridden Third Worlders could be, and in private -- because Buddy said he knew their most intimate thoughts -- every last one of them was racist.
Beard
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While secretly they laughed at what they termed her puritanical notions, they were shrewd enough to realize that they could hardly afford to snub a woman whose husband occupied so prominent a position in the world of affairs.
The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure
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I also liked this piece in the LA Times -- "DSK and France's code of silence" -- about how there must be a happy medium between "the French embrace of satyriasis among political leaders and Americans' puritanical intolerance of sexual impropriety...
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Face of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Their parents had a puritanical streak and didn't approve of dancing.
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There's an ugly puritanical streak buried in the argument that those of us who do a good job should be rewarded and lazy slobs should be punished.
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I know, 'cried Eugénie de Netteville at last, standing at bay before him, her hands locked before her, her white lips quivering, when her cup of shame was full, and her one impulse left was to strike the man who had humiliated her-'I know that you and your puritanical wife are miserable -- _miserable_.
Robert Elsmere
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Charles I in the "solitudes" of the end of his life; and by the puritanical allusion to the "vain amatorious poem of Sir Philip
Milton
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Those with a puritanical cast of mind love fire.
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But these kinds of puritanical, knee-jerk catchwords are too easy, and they obscure a more complicated truth.
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These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.
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Paradoxically, the film-making movement which seemed to stand for iconoclasm and freedom became one of the most codified and puritanical.
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As a teen-age convert to serious Christianity, I was a puritanical zealot.
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Our entertainments have become effeminate and puritanical in their perversely and contradictorily sexed-up way.
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His stubborn puritanical simplicity was sometimes dismissed as a publicity gimmick.
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Along numb manchester britannia hotel and a puritanically zymolysis of gigs, the woozy was groundcover up and arales regularly, and the yukawa vinegarishness glossina.
Rational Review
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The social norms of native Saudis have the external appearance of puritanical Islamic practice.
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Cook called Niue (pronounced new-ay) Savage Island because the natives stained their mouths red with a local plant; Horwitz finds a boring, puritanical, Christianized culture which makes money on switching 900-number sex-chat calls and undercutting the Bahamas and the Caymans on the price of registering offshore businesses.
A Genuine Cook's Tour
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A dig in the ribs from my puritanical brother told me when I was going too far.
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It was an interesting combination, and its simplicity - Nigel calls it 'puritanical' - was popular, but for me it was just too dry.
A cheap spaghetti supper
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Finally the arts are now emancipated from the stifling cloak of puritanical hypocrisy.
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In counter-protest, newspaper editor Giuliano Ferrara hung up underwear in a Milan auditorium against what he calls a puritanical drive to oust the premier.
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The global warming cause is also an attack against pleasure, which is why it is so popular, especially in puritanical societies, among millions of people who have no clue about science.
Is ‘Stop Liking Men Who Drive Hot Cars’ Sound Climate Advice? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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The scholarly Arden footnotes both the sexual and nonsexual readings of the line, although its explanation of the latter — that she wants somebody else's beard on her chin — seems reminiscent of the puritanical bowdlerizing of editions past.
Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
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Three disconsolate tai-tais, wealthy wives with adulterous husbands, go off to a pleasure palace north of Hong Kong—in other words, on the supposedly puritanical mainland--where they compete for the love of a superstud gigolo.
Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand
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Another is that, while there has always been a puritanical, judgmental side to Musar, this voice has grown louder and more shrill in recent times.
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Members tend to be puritanical in moral teachings and to disapprove of Sufism.
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You have been intimidated by their moralising self-righteousness, brow-beaten by their puritanical spartanism, seduced by their appointment-diary ethics.
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The health motivation was pusillanimous and puritanical.
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I also note that your puritanical underbelly is showing.
Think Progress » VIDEO: House Conservatives Reveal What God Thinks About Gay Marriage Amendment
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He employed the term slyly, knowing his somewhat puritanical publisher would not recognize it.
Black and White World: This Gun for Hire – The Bleat.
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It's about time we abandoned this puritanical attitude toward sex.
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Sir Antony held his head solemnly on one side, weighed him with puritanical scrupulosity to a quarter of an ounce on his delicate balance, listened attentively at the chest with his silver-mounted stethoscope, and perpended the net result of his investigation with professional gravity; then he gave
Philistia
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Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts.
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My father, Richard Hoggart, was one of the witnesses in the real trial and, I guess, helped sway the jury with his insistence that the book, and Lawrence himself, were "puritanical" - not in the sense of hating pleasure but in having respect for one's own conscience.
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Flimsy storylines concentrate on chaste boy-girl relationships, with hip-grinding dance numbers providing enough sex to titillate the audience without upsetting India's puritanical film censors.
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Similarly, the film responds to contemporary American culture's own dominant constructions of sexuality (codified by Hollywood films and other media representations) and puritanical abhorrence of non-normative sexualities.
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So the ungauged reservoir turns out to be an inclosed basin, but Dorothea was prevented by her social lot, and perverse goodness, and puritanical
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
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This may all sound a tad twee and puritanical, but the food isn't.
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These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.
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Robespierre, a narrow, prudish, jealous, puritanical but able lawyer from Arras, with journalists like Desmoulins and Loustallot, inveighed against what they described as iniquitous class legislation that would have excluded from the councils of the French nation Jean
The French Revolution A Short History
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The new building steers the straits between meticulous restoration and furious demolition, refusing a puritanical stance towards the glass-cased bibelot.
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This is progressive rock at its most puritanical.
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Arensberg was not the only visitor to be perplexed by a country where, he noted, ‘a puritanical morality’ coexisted with ‘the hilarity of the race meeting.’
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With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
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Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana?
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Instead, in echoes of the state's puritanical censors of the past, officials are trying to suppress truthful information because it "arouses" the public.
Financial Info: Banned in Boston
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I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
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LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.
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The constitution of the League was termed by Mr. Wilson a Covenant, a word redolent of biblical and puritanical times, which accorded well with the motives that decided him to prefer Geneva to Brussels as the seat of the League, and to adopt other measures of a supposed political character.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
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The attitude many people have toward abortion is part of what Moore calls a puritanical streak in the United States.
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Along numb manchester britannia hotel and a puritanically zymolysis of gigs, the woozy was groundcover up and arales regularly, and the yukawa vinegarishness glossina.
Rational Review
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He was frightfully puritanical at the time as regards deviance of any kind.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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Their parents had a puritanical streak and didn't approve of dancing.
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Not that Vance Corliss was anybody's fool, nor that his had been an anchorite's existence; but that his upbringing, rather, had given his life a certain puritanical bent.
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The same puritanical tendency has been revived by militant groups today, who exclude lax or nominal Muslims from their definition of the umma, the world-wide community of believers.
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Real Puritans, she opines in ‘Puritans and Prigs,’ attempted to shape society by faith and reason, in contrast to prigs who are content to announce their opinions and ‘puritanically’ damn all who disagree.
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Even the most puritanical, old-style theorist, or the most modishly self-conscious, context-seeking musicologist will be hugely entertained, as well as enlightened, by this book.
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In fact it is difficult to imagine anyone more divorced from the spirit of the Jazz Age than the priggish, puritanical, non-smoking, non-drinking young Popper.
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They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality , and criticized their friend Ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberto Rossellini .
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Our society has been moving toward both the laissez-faire capitalism and puritanical fundamentalist revivalism of the nineteenth century in recent years.
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She might be a prurient woman of lustfulness, or she may be a prudish, puritanical girl.
Spitzer's Whore Should Not Make a Nickel
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I sometimes wish GUD didn't publish adult-leaning content so that we could more easily market to perspicacious YA -- but at least in puritanical-US, that would be litigiously dangerous.
MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
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Africans have quite our prim, puritanical attitude towards extra - marital sex.
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I'm sure there are those down here who just see me as a Scot with a Calvinist streak and a puritanical attitude.
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Hefner dismisses what she describes as the "puritanical, antisexual, antimale" wing of feminism, but she nonetheless identifies herself as a feminist, declaring, "To say you're not a feminist is virtually the same thing as saying you're a racist.
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This is progressive rock at its most puritanical.
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Compare that to the United States with our puritanical attitudes toward sex and federal funding for abstinence-only education.
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LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.
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Despite their antagonism towards religion and ‘bourgeois morality’, the communists had a puritanical attitude to sex.
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They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality, and criticized their friend Ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberta Rossellini.
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As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
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The clatter has been expelled and our standards of audience attention are almost puritanical.
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While in this new valuation he still retains the character of a disputatious, puritanical polemist, erratic in conduct, surly in manner, irascible in temper, biting in speech, it invests him with a shrinking reluctance to adopt any action however radical without the approval of the congregation or its accredited representatives.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
