The business park was the outpost of an advanced kind of puritanism, and a virtually sex-free zone. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » The Office Park] Reference
Note 64: Former partisan, D. Grizona, also refers to the 'puritanism' of the partisan leadership (Boutzouvi-Bania, 1993: 206). back. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
In the end, I’ve come back to pastry puritanism the only kind of puritanism I can stand. From Wordnik.com. [pie crust 102: all butter, really flaky pie dough | smitten kitchen] Reference
What led him to this methodolog - ical puritanism?. From Wordnik.com. [BEHAVIORISM] Reference
They totally lack the puritanism of American women. From Wordnik.com. [Sex in the Muslim World] Reference
There was a certain puritanism, a certain Jacobinism. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Views Political, Economic Situation] Reference
In practice, Salafis displace pluralism with puritanism. From Wordnik.com. [E Pluribis Islam?] Reference
It's a sort of in-your-face reply to the new puritanism. From Wordnik.com. [For the Sake of Argument] Reference
Not that Bochco thinks the new puritanism is here to stay. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Lots of Fall-like undercurrents in it - puritanism, paranoia. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise.] Reference
They piggyback America's innate puritanism and demonize sexuality. From Wordnik.com. [The Piggyback Virus] Reference
The finest -- and no acute case of puritanism to inhibit his enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Inside John Barth] Reference
Poor little plump partridges, they cannot help their forced puritanism. From Wordnik.com. [Cromwell] Reference
Melanie's cerebral puritanism is all very well - for cerebral puritans. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
His personal life was impeccable-of a puritanism unattainable for the mass. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
Shakespeare, with characteristic tact, avoids any wholesale indictment of puritanism. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
COLE: The puritanism of the Muqtada al-Sadr movement gives them something to do in life. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2006] Reference
The ancient rigour of puritanism is now very much relaxed, though all are not yet equally enlightened. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference
With him, a very genuine puritanism and a determined antagonism to Spain had always been first principles. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Prometheus-artist clamped, so to speak, with bands of steel to the huge granitic cliff of English puritanism. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Mencken mocked American society for its puritanism, its anti-intellectualism, and its emphasis on conformity. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H. L] Reference
Also, Mormonism is the purest expression of the American combination of puritanism with triumphalist hedonism. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking: Romney Doesn't Pander To Right On Intelligent Design!] Reference
In response, Willis helped found the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce (Fact) to counter the puritanism she deplored. From Wordnik.com. [We Remember - Ellen Willis, 1941 - 2006] Reference
I thought the whole episode was a sneaky and effective use of fame, spectacle and the subversion of American puritanism. From Wordnik.com. [lactating the masses] Reference
Donnell is an insane clown posse of fundamentalism, puritanism, xenophobia and lowest common denominator dementia, it doesn. From Wordnik.com. [Carol Hartsell: Welcome to the Tea Dance, Tea Doggers] Reference
Have we finally moved beyond what Camille Paglia once called the "puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism"?. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Interrupted] Reference
Your precious soul isn't worth one tree, much less the thousands that will now be cut down because of your prissy puritanism. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: 'Purity' Won't Make the World Any Better] Reference
If they are harassed, it has less to do with religious puritanism than sexism, according to women drivers and women activists. From Wordnik.com. [Iraqi Women Back In The Driver���s Seat] Reference
I first began to sense the puritanism in a conversation I had with Kimon Sargeant, who was my immediate supervisor at the foundation. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Oppenheimer: Prop 8, Templeton Foundation, "Homophobia" -- An Insider's View] Reference
I launched into my usual rant about American puritanism, with its scrupulous moral rigor and hostility toward pleasures and privilege. From Wordnik.com. [Diane Francis: Chicago Justice and Lord Black] Reference
Although many could not share his Muslim religious beliefs, they found in Malcolm's puritanism a standing reproach to their own lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
He also with that lofty puritanism which characterizes him, reproached me for not being ashamed to describe foul things in noble language. From Wordnik.com. [The Defense] Reference
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