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. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 7] Reference
It was an interesting combination, and its simplicity - Nigel calls it 'puritanical' - was popular, but for me it was just too dry. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Now, Bulgaria isn't what you would call a puritanical country. From Wordnik.com. [On Second Thought Maybe Not...] Reference
Yet far from restoring the Sangha's purity, their attempts at censorship only make them look puritanical, which is a pretty poor way of restoring the monkhood's good reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia: Details are Sketchy] Reference
We've gone back -- in a strange kind of puritanical way to the basics. From Wordnik.com. [My Career at the BBC] Reference
Similar percentages of "hot blooded" Spanish men and women, and "puritanical" U.S. men and women reported being sexually satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
But, for all that, I am coming home without fail at the time I fixed; not from any 'puritanical' adherence to my word given, but that by. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
New England was settled by fundamentalist pilgrims who wrestled a meager living from the stony soil and harsh winters - it is no accident that the word "puritanical" means. From Wordnik.com. [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference
From this puritanical criticism most readers will dissent. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
In puritanical Saudi Arabia, that's a serious gesture in itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Monarch Who Declared His Own Revolution] Reference
This was the doing of two energetic and highly puritanical men: Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
"She found such conclusions unsophisticated, hopelessly puritanical.". From Wordnik.com. [Tina 'Turner] Reference
But a puritanical mother had, on the tour preceding, written Professor. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
I feel like I just approached a youth hostel, not a puritanical mission. From Wordnik.com. [In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1)] Reference
Sequestered in our room of hottest détente, her puritanical bent was MIA. From Wordnik.com. [Eff the Vote] Reference
But this reign of the puritanical army was really "the last glimpse of the godlike!". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
I was then not a little surprised to find so strange a superstition lingering in puritanical. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The rigidity of Aurangzeb's puritanical fundamentalism could not contain the diversity of India. From Wordnik.com. [A Call To Arms For Pakistan] Reference
While my rival was irresistible, I found her tax plan disgusting and her morality views puritanical. From Wordnik.com. [Eff the Vote] Reference
"There's a slightly more puritanical streak in America that finds the bits more outrageous," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Raise A Glass For 'Ab Fab'] Reference
"I am going to the prayer-meeting," he said abruptly, and his puritanical form as suddenly left the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Acting in conformity with your more than puritanical rules, would starve any man and his family to death. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
I'll have one of those in every color ', "jokes Rosie, who adds that the seamy shopping" made me not as puritanical. From Wordnik.com. [Chains Of Love] Reference
There is Fox's own right-wing, pro-business National Action Party (PAN), whose puritanical current scares many Mexicans. From Wordnik.com. [Taking The Reins] Reference
He has continued to tolerate Pashtun warlords who were toppled by the puritanical Taliban in the 1990s for their rampant misrule. From Wordnik.com. [A Violent Wake-Up Call] Reference
He was evidently somewhat narrow and puritanical, but already had offered to assist him with any of his studies should he need help. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
Hence the puritanical tyrants thought the observation of Christmas Day should be visited in future years with more severe penalties. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
The modern capitalist West was invented by children of the Reformation, but it was not their puritanical faith that transformed things. From Wordnik.com. [Economics Versus Extremism] Reference
Besides Sir Philip is well-nigh as puritanical as his father -- a sort of cross-breed between an English fanatic and an old Roman cynic. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Feminism is shot through with puritanical Judeo-Christian assumptions, which exalt the soul over the body and moralistically devalue the physical realm. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes Of The Beholders] Reference
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