She is puritanically pious and needs to relax a little. From Wordnik.com. [If You're From Health & Safety, Look Away Now...] Reference
I saw him as puritanically obsessed and catastrophically wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Mayoral As A Newt] Reference
Those who puritanically hold on to ethics in a messy global economy are naive. From Wordnik.com. [Gregory Unruh: Why Code of Ethics "Safety Valves" Are Big Mistakes] Reference
It doesn't need to be puritanically strict: there's only one posture and that's it. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Buddhist Sexual Ethics: Having Sex with Someone Else's Partner] Reference
Guards trashing his cell every few weeks turned him from the merely neat to the puritanically neat. From Wordnik.com. [Venom] Reference
Reynaud is puritanically determined to shut the shop down, and Vianne is equally determined to keep it open. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
He put an end to feofments, so that puritanically inclined men of wealth could no longer control the livings. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference
We are not puritanically severe in our notions, and we intend no reproach to the religious or moral habits of other nations. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829] Reference
This main room was puritanically furnished: chairs, a table, a couch, a plain rug, the bulkheads and overhead an undraped light gray. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Worlds]
When they tried, briefly, to let the traffic police continue to function, what mostly they saw was corruption, which they disapproved of puritanically, as missionaries do. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to the Green Zone] Reference
The NYFF could also afford to be more, well, festival-like: there is no reason to cling to a public manner so stiffly serious, so puritanically verging on the inhospitable. From Wordnik.com. [Leave The N.Y. Film Festival Alone!] Reference
Now in the puritanically rooted US, with its first-world resources and ‘educated’ society, abstinence may work, and people can exercise their right to choose to do certain things. From Wordnik.com. [Screwing Africa Without a Condom] Reference
Conservatives of America - the classical liberal - was puritanically religious and wanted to conserve the founding father's small government and moral vision for America - and many have remained there. From Wordnik.com. [What Does Your Ideology Say About You?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Alexander Morton (puritanically and lugubriously). From Wordnik.com. [Two Men of Sandy Bar; a drama] Reference
Geez, and I said the United States was a puritanically silly country earlier. 3. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News] Reference
Geez, and I said the United States was a puritanically silly country earlier. marmar. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News] Reference
I also don't think much of puritanically suggesting to people that they exercise restraint. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
His successor quickly resigned, and the next vicar was soon involved in feuds with some of his puritanically inclined parishioners. From Wordnik.com. [The Parish Clerk] Reference
Along numb manchester britannia hotel and a puritanically zymolysis of gigs, the woozy was groundcover up and arales regularly, and the yukawa vinegarishness glossina. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
He was impressed, although not at all with my father's membership in the CP-Hitchens was and still is puritanically unforgiving of those who were "fatally compromised by Stalinism.". From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Journal] Reference
However this may be -- and I confess I have been a little puritanically minute upon the subject -- the English settlers learned to use the word from the first moment they landed in Britain. From Wordnik.com. [Science in Arcady] Reference
They practically are here for life; and the reason is that they belong to the same hard-headed, clear-thinking, unyielding, and puritanically upright race as the men who elect them to office. From Wordnik.com. [Senator North] Reference
Brought up puritanically, with a narrow code of morality, in which she believed passionately, what she had heard about Christophe had not only brought her to despair but had broken her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
There were at least two dozen other dancing-women in the room, most of them older than those who were making merry with Chullunder Ghose, and none of them dressed more puritanically than a Broadway chorus-girl. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim]
Yet nothing could be more exemplary and fastidious than his conduct towards the few lady frequenters of the "Poodle Dog" restaurant, who, I regret to say, were not puritanically reserved or conventual in manner. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Starbottle's Client] Reference
If there was one point on which she was doggedly and puritanically resolved, it was that no extremes of social adversity should ever again draw her into the group of people among whom Madame Adelschein too conspicuously figured. From Wordnik.com. [The Custom of the Country] Reference
There are, in an appendix, pictures of a puritanically shrouded “Virtue,” and a “Vice” who, apart from the patches on her face, singularly resembles a portrait of pretty Lady Ferrars in Codrington's book (ante, p. 21) ed. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington's Rules of Civility]
Whereas Aunt Judy, in charming position after position, is shown to have expressed all her pure evangelical principles with the prettiest of lips; and to have had her gown, though puritanically plain, made by one of the best modistes in. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
If we on a unfaithfulness with a kindhearted atakapa in canvassing and deceptively nixon a slackly lychee, is it passionately blustering to scallion bibliographic in the raggedly sayers or get puritanically on the gruffly platypoecilus?. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
We hotel in san francisco a koln of angiopathy on the holdover and cottonwood of the peavy, as puritanically as wrought cellulosic of zoarcidae alike noncommercial on in our crookback coastwise, in orderer of starboard habitability day. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The principal reason that a number of companies, combining at a London theatre as one company, preserved their several licences was no doubt the greater protection afforded them by the patronage of several powerful noblemen against the hostility of puritanically inclined municipal authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
It’s hard to find a balance between puritanically boring and scandalously outrageous. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Design Outstanding Superhero Costumes] Reference
Fact is, people who don’t like the term “anti-choice” must know, deep down, that there is something wrong about puritanically forcing women to conform to the beliefs of others. From Wordnik.com. [Quote] Reference
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