| 单词 | puritanical |
| 例句 | Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Into the doors and into the soft lights I go, silently, past the rows of puritanical benches straight and torturous, finding that to which I am assigned and bending my body to its agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up, I was always tickled by this raffish personal connection to history: part of the Puritans, but not actually puritanical. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They made us watch a film, a terrible bit of puritanical brainwash. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As he traced the prison’s history, he saw progress, the “puritanical” practice of the nineteenth century evolving into the “more enlightened social thought” of the twentieth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The advice to omit needless words should not be confused with the puritanical edict that all writers must pare every sentence down to the shortest, leanest, most abstemious version possible. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the author's telling, it "leads to a kind of puritanical calling-out of people who have sinned against these goals." Everyday People, Extraordinary Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “As a newly grown-up woman who has experienced my fair share of backlash, of public shaming and of puritanical judgments, that really moves me,” Ms. Dunham said. Hollywood Celebrities Choose Sides in Presidential Race 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z If the word emanated from almost any other person, it would be considered not fit for repetition, let alone mass broadcast, under the puritanical standards of decency this country is supposedly based on. ‘If the president is doing it . . .’: How Trump took swearing mainstream 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Is there not some lingering, puritanical kink in the national DNA that makes us all believe that we should be suffering eternally for our sins, even as we demand absolution? The Sexual Innocence of Britney Spears 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z A few like-minded souls turn up, agreeing at first to James’s “puritanical” approach to music appreciation: “Comments and judgements aren’t allowed.” Review | The unbearable burden of superior taste in music 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Europe, unsurprisingly, cherished him more than puritanical America. Movie Review: ‘Far Out Isn’t Far Enough,’ About Tomi Ungerer 2013-06-14T01:10:55Z The word puritanical, he explained, was meant to denote “the intense sense of responsibility for one’s conscience” that characterized the Protestant Puritan movement. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z Public policy thus maintained its moralistic and puritanical slant well into the 1930s. Addiction is not a disease: How AA and 12-step programs erect barriers while attempting to relieve suffering 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z This book is littered with accounts of her puritanical industriousness. The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher – review 2013-03-15T19:40:01Z In its nastiest episode, a puritanical clergyman hacks off Jane's luxuriant hair with a terrifying pair of scissors: a gruesomely personal image of castration. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z All of this makes it clear that American artists took to heart not just Malevich’s radically simplified forms, but also the puritanical spirit in which he conceived them. Art Review: It All Started With a Simple Square 2011-03-11T00:05:42Z Mr. Sharma dismisses Wahhabism, the prevailing Muslim doctrine in Saudi Arabia, as “puritanical” and promoting “an Islam of fear.” In ‘A Sinner in Mecca,’ a Gay Director Ponders His Sexuality and Islamic Faith 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Mind you, the word "mistake" has puritanical connotations when it comes to sex that aren't present here. HBO Max's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is less erotic and more awkward than its alluring title 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z It's a belief founded less on hard evidence and more on puritanical attitudes in a culture hung up about sex. Don't give up sex, Matt Cardle 2010-12-15T18:01:47Z I think there is still a puritanical streak in most films. Was Stephen King right to hate Stanley Kubrick's Shining? 2013-04-06T07:03:01Z No, it does not, because this is a civilized society, not a puritanical dictatorship run by so-called victims, who seek to shame in public for their own failures. Women Say Richard Meier’s Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Al-Sharif was born in Mecca in 1979, the year that the Grand Mosque seizure marked the resurgence of the radically puritanical Islamic doctrine known as Salafism. Memoirs Take the Wheel 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z I suspect part of the problem was it fell foul of America's puritanical sensibilities and couldn't generate world of mouth outside the core teenage fanbase. J-Lo needs a Back-Up Plan as romcom underwhelms US box office 2010-04-26T09:19:00Z It's Asian kids in America growing up caught between fairly puritanical interpretations of Islam from their families and communities and the permissiveness of the west. Meltdown 2010: Richard Thompson on curating this year's event 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z What about genteel Japan, the fetish mecca — or the puritanical yet gratuitous United States? A White-Knuckle Ride to the Dark Side of Love and Infidelity 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Women are getting less and less caught up on an unrealistic and puritanical vision of what a good girl is. Vibrators Carry the Conversation 2011-04-20T21:56:26Z But pre-web, we had a much more puritanical view of what the possibilities were. What effect has the internet had on our sex lives? 2011-02-06T00:05:46Z Cultural norms vary, by generation or geography, from puritanical to ambivalent to let-it-all-hang-out. The naked truth about nude art modeling 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z If you’re a careful reader, you may be getting the impression that he hates himself, but in fact, Jay presents a kind of puritanical egoism sustained by constant bragging about Who Shall Be Most Debased. Review | James Frey’s ‘Katerina’ is a million little pieces of narcissism and may be the worst novel of the year 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Critics of the #MeToo movement in France say it is puritanical and fueled by a hated of men. Polanski win at Cesars would send wrong message in #MeToo era: minister 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z It's Asian kids in America growing up caught between fairly puritanical interpretations of Islam from their families and communities and the permissiveness of the west in which they live. My Meltdown: Richard Thompson 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Violent beatings, abuse revelations, racist songs and suicides are all relayed via the puritanical dictates of the Dogme 95’s manifesto in a lucid, watery, midnight sunlight. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z In 1933, Bill Cunningham’s mother came home to their “drab, puritanical” Boston Catholic enclave and caught her son vamping through the house in his sister’s pink organdy full-skirted dress. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z "I was frustrated by our system, which I feel is antiquated and unnecessarily puritanical and hypocritical," Schwimmer says. Trust issues 2011-07-08T07:24:09Z There have been the usual grumbles about “puritanical feminists”, but overall there’s been a surprising consensus. Ne me touche pas… the shift in sex and power sweeping France 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z He might be presenting the BBC's Panorama or ITN's lunchtime news programme of the early 1970s, First Report, but his roots and style were always back in the puritanical tell-it-as-it-is ethic of Picture Post magazine. Robert Kee obituary 2013-01-11T18:56:24Z This is a moral conformity that is wholly undemocratic, unthinking, au courant and terrifyingly puritanical. Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Kynaston, in this shrewd, funny and ever-readable book, depicts Britain in 1957-59 as a country chafing at traditional puritanical paternalism, and both gullible and indiscriminate as it edged towards tacky, often destructive forms of modernity. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z The prevailing mood tends toward the puritanical, with the viewer’s pleasures carefully monitored. MoMA Takes On the ’60s in a Welcome Shakeup of the Permanent Collection Galleries 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z When Green Day graduated from California's puritanical Bay Area punk scene to playing arenas in the early 90s they became instant pariahs to their old friends. Punk is still the sound of youth rebellion 2012-06-01T15:39:56Z Scheuer, who once headed the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, dissects the puritanical religious views that informed bin Laden's thinking. Reading bin Laden and his world 2011-05-06T21:32:04Z On the one hand, Malvolio, the puritanical, self-important steward to the Countess Olivia in Shakespeare’s play, is presented here as a joyless figure who deserves to be made mock of. Theater Review: Tim Crouch’s ‘I, Malvolio,’ at the Duke on 42nd Street 2013-01-15T23:15:07Z Even at their most puritanical, though, American colonists were amateurs compared with witch hunters in Europe. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z With his evangelising, puritanical streak, he's less like Terry Thomas than Thomas Becket. Jamie Oliver, like me, is finding out what Americans think of pushy Brits 2010-03-28T00:07:00Z I wasn't there but my understanding is that there was an idyllic, even puritanical image of ourselves that stoked the kind of malaise and led us into the 60s. Brad Pitt on the Mystery of Terry Malick 2011-05-26T19:50:00Z There's Andrew, a puritanical young doctor with an air of "benevolent omniscience." Summer reading: Sizzling romance and more 2012-06-15T17:13:51Z Furthermore, TV writers, especially those in mostly censor-free premium cable and streaming TV, are undoubtedly eager to push the envelope of frank realism in a less puritanical era. Awkward Sex, Onscreen and Off 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Both began in the 19th century under the British Raj: the former school is strict and puritanical, the latter more folksy in its worship. Under the spotlight 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z He complains a lot about America’s puritanical, contradictory attitudes toward sex and likes to say that he is a “one-eyed man in a blind world.” How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z In Vogel’s telling, the puritanical opposition to the play sours a passionate adherent — its stage manager, Lemml, played with apt operatic vivacity by Ben Cherry — on a nation purported to embrace newcomers with new ideas. Review | How ‘Indecent,’ about art happening against all odds, speaks to our time 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Here, America’s deeply rooted puritanical beliefs add an extra layer of amorality, and even immorality, to those who exist outside of or beyond the needs of the capitalist state. “Wellness” is making us sick: How corporate America’s favorite mantra leaves us all feeling inadequate 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Both the French Laundry and the nearby Napa Valley vineyards reflect the American tension between a quest for luxury and a puritanical commitment to grinding labor. How a world-class chef blossomed in Napa Valley: The French Laundry turns 25 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Television enforced these divisions and also upheld puritanical standards of decency. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Historically, a puritanical streak in Britain as broad as the Thames in flood has meant that we have been suspicious of spending proper wedge on what we eat. Can a Christmas pudding ever be worth ?250? 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z “I think in an economized and puritanical world that is putting a priority on reason, to do something nonsensical is a strong and life-affirming experience, which puts everything in perspective.” Wolfgang Tillmans Takes Pictures of Modern Life, Backlit by the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Although he was influenced by late European modernism, he steered clear of what you might call high style – the puritanical minimalism of Dieter Rams's products for Braun, or the postmodern rambunctiousness of the Italians. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z This also has a classic setup but updates the olde puritanical tale to deal with issues of racism and sexism. Perspective | The best science fiction and fantasy of the year so far — plus what we’re looking forward to next 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z It's about the enduring sense on this side of the Atlantic that America, even in the Obama era, remains a land of philistine, puritanical barbarity. Polanski and Cannes: C'est l'amour! 2010-05-13T15:45:00Z I myself can recall a puritanical substitute teacher who took me to task in the second grade because I expressed a kinship with Bart Simpson; she called his cartoon universe "disgusting." Prime time's new age of crudeness 2011-01-17T15:01:00Z His girlie revues and publications like Men Only, Escort and Club International helped drag puritanical British culture out of the Dark Ages. Movie Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Stars Steve Coogan as a Sex Impresario 2013-07-04T20:55:14Z Benson-Allott said the outright dismissal of both franchises was the byproduct of the United States being “still a very puritanical country in a lot of ways.” How ‘365 Days’ Became One of Netflix’s Worst-Reviewed Big Hits 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z By Michael Scheuer.The author, who once headed the C.I.A.’s Osama bin Laden unit, dissects the puritanical religious views that informed the Al Qaeda leader’s thinking. ArtsBeat: A Survey of Books About Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda 2011-05-02T07:50:50Z It's about competing value systems, with the puritanical Salafi influences on one side and the more laid-back Sufi influences on the other. Salman Ahmad, Sufi rocker 2010-05-20T11:29:00Z Hughes goes for mixed spice, which I prefer, being more of a nutmeg and ginger fan, but feel free to use either – or indeed to leave the spice out altogether if you are feeling puritanical. How to cook the perfect spotted dick 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The novelist and professor at a Roman Catholic university who was born in 1909 into an austere and puritanical Methodist household in Ohio was Samuel M. Steward. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z It's basically this puritanical Calvinist Christianity that the Pilgrims forced down our throats. Comedian Eric Andre: "This country's got a s**tty history" 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Achieving moral purity through self-denial is a concept with puritanical roots that flowered in American capitalism, wherein thinness is both status and symbol. Review | Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ brilliantly illuminates how women are conditioned to be complicit in their own exploitation 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z That didn’t sit well at the time with the puritanical Temperance Society, which kicked up such a fuss it took three years before another Christmas card was produced. Cheers! Or not: ‘Scandalous’ 1st Christmas card up for sale 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Here's where this particular sexual script starts to sound rather, well, puritanical. Why America is so weird about sex 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z "Breaks me in pieces that a company that literally pays me to speak is paying to keep me silent by funding puritanical Anti-LGBTQIA+ politicians." "What a complete fool": Disney CEO criticized for refusing to publicly oppose "Don't Say Gay" bill 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z In the United States, the fossil-fuel industry and its Republican lackeys picked away at a handful of loose scientific threads in the film, depicting it as some partisan, puritanical attack on capitalism, consumerism and prosperity. It’s too late to halt climate change and our society is doomed — but wait, that’s the good news 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Punishment escalates if you swear because McKamey, of all people, has a puritanical streak: he says he does not smoke, drink alcohol or coffee or “cuss”. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z One is modern feminism, at least the spongy wing of it she considers to be puritanical and man-bashing. From Camille Paglia, ‘Free Women, Free Men’ and No Sacred Cows 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z There were sets at the Queen Elizabeth Hall from two "taqwacore punk" bands, while a documentary about their backgrounds and their clashes with more puritanical Muslims was showing in the Purcell Room. Taqwacore punks/Wainwright & Thompson 2010-06-22T21:40:00Z Yet in its way his performance - an embodiment of the puritanical, ill-used steward from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" - is almost as challenging as those in "Ganesh." ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway 2013-01-24T17:37:58Z I think I was very puritanical about that. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z I, too, reached for the “p” word in a recent review of Anonymous 4: “pure but not puritanical,” I wrote, hoping to convey a simultaneous quality of warmth and clarity. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “All this made sense within the context of our intricately coiled, overly secretive, hyper-gossipy, puritanical yet indecent, totalitarian district,” she writes. Review | ‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z To traditional, or let’s say puritanical, Russians, a certain part of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, is the consummate capitalist fleshpot: a decadent eyesore where flashy, nouveau riche Russian immigrants flaunt their wealth and desecrate their culture. Television Review: Left the Volga, Kept the Vulgar 2011-08-10T22:02:55Z Perhaps, though the fact that our culture has somehow gotten more puritanical and more vulgar simultaneously would get in the way. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z This despite the fact that she had been in and out of several relationships and didn’t have a puritanical or restrictive upbringing. The Sex Adviser Will See You Now. On Instagram. 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Devoid of ornamentation but for small, white metal escutcheons, it seems the very embodiment of puritanical severity. Art Review: ‘Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna,’ at Neue Galerie 2013-06-06T21:38:06Z He is a man watching himself watch himself, curiously puritanical in his skepticism, turning to see every angle and possibly dissatisfied with all, and genetically incapable of being an ideologue. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Part why it’s considered so much more outrageous in the US than in other English-speaking countries could be down to America’s puritanical streak. Samantha Bee proves there's still one word you can't say in America 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Wokeism is a puritanical, destructive society that has been taken over by puritans, modern-day Huguenots who look at the world in this way and it has become a kind of fascism. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z It was a time when the city was nearly bankrupt, and when a certain kind of poverty and freedom abutted against a strain of American puritanical moralism. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z It is just the date movie our puritanical — and yet super rape-y! — culture deserves. “50 Shades” of coercive sex: The movie is even worse than the book 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Hitchcock thinks the spare tale - its savage violence told with subtle suggestiveness to mollify Hollywood's puritanical censors - can leave fans screaming in their seats. Review: 'Hitchcock' is lightweight but fun study 2012-11-19T17:30:11Z The Osage people became wealthy from leasing their mineral rights; so wealthy that white America, stoked by a racist and sensationalistic press, went into a moral panic, a collective puritanical shudder. The Osage Indians Struck It Rich, Then Paid the Price 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z There’s something juvenile and paradoxically puritanical about Chazelle’s focus on the characters’ drinking and drugging and hard-living, and not just because their exertions don’t seem very fun. ‘Babylon’ Review: Boozing. Snorting. Grinding. That’s Entertainment!? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s the stories we tell ourselves about achievement and meritocracy, the integrity of hallowed statistical feats, even the puritanical attitude toward performance-enhancing drugs. The Political Athlete: Then and Now 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z “The Witch” is set in puritanical Salem, where everybody is paranoid about Satan. The Best Performances of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z "I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritanical upbringing and beliefs," she once said. Elizabeth Taylor was prolific as a bride 2011-03-23T15:05:13Z She treats him with sympathy, acknowledging that he came to prominence in America in the puritanical 1940s and ’50s, that he wasn’t bohemian or rich or worldly. Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Folded into the film is Mr. Beatty’s critique of the country’s “sexual hypocrisy,” its puritanical yen for shaming public figures for carrying on in human, mutually consenting ways. Warren Beatty Wants Six Hours of Your Time. Or More. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Most of the film shows how the puritanical Danish Lutherans in the film lived before they sat down to turtle soup, blinis and quail in puff pastry. Babette's Feast: Julian Baggini savours the ultimate lockdown movie 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The ensemble’s glassy vocal blend, lit up by a tone that is pure without being puritanical, has also made it a partner of choice for contemporary composers. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The only reason that Heard's demure side-part and puritanical blouses are so easily recognizable – and meme-able – is because our network filmed them and then made a point to re-air them again and again. With the Depp-Heard trial, courtroom television's exploitative tricks reached new misogynist heights 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z But watch Smith and Jones' sketch, and it's comedy's new generation that comes across as puritanical, and the mainstream that's giving offence. The Two Ronnies: the double act's popularity is still booming 2010-12-23T10:30:00Z First of all, I'm a kind of puritanical person where work is concerned and I was determined that I was going to dig myself out of this hole and deliver on time. Book Talk: Jim Crace says last novel a generous gift 2013-02-14T11:14:29Z “It’s one of those topics that unfortunately is a conversation that won’t be over until we get over our weird puritanical obsessions with sex and the female figure,” Ms. Hoffmann said. Skin Deep: Brazilian Bikini Wax? In a New Trend in Hair Removal, Women Prefer the Natural Look 2014-01-29T20:42:14Z My transformation from puritanical noise warden to Mrs. Robinson embarrassed me; my dulled brain screamed, “What just happened?” Single, Unemployed and Suddenly Myself 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Logan presents the younger man as the voice of both a puritanical conscience and a new generation of artists that threaten Rothko’s rule. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z Her garishly ornamented work of the 1970s poked fun at what she considered puritanical aesthetic and feminist theories, but it also embraced her roots. Art: A Life of Melting the Status Quo 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z “Weirdly, it’s not a new puritanism – Hollywood has always been puritanical. Its about economics,” says Galloway. The end of erotica? How Hollywood fell out of love with sex 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, the musical’s most eloquent scene was not the eponymous dream ballet but this razzmatazz number performed by Max von Essen, as Henri, an aspiring crooner and repressed homosexual with dourly puritanical parents. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet Pence is being savaged for his puritanical approach to marriage and social life not because he’s an evangelical Christian, but because he’s not a Jimmy Carter-style evangelical. Yeah, Mike Pence is a raging hypocrite — but not because of his puritanical private life 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z I was both puritanical and appalled by this, but now I see that this was her choice, pre-internet, a branding of the fantasy dream girl: intense, neurotic, beautiful. 'Everyone else was just a bit player': my night out with Elizabeth Wurtzel | Suzanne Moore 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The patriarchal world of August Strindberg’s dour late-19th-century tragedy “Miss Julie” — with its rigid social hierarchy of masters and servants, and its entrenched puritanical ethos — may seem remote to American audiences. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The backyard is soon dug up and a pool installed, a move long resisted by the politically puritanical Jean. Can old age still have a happy ending? 2013-02-07T23:17:00Z “Indignation” captures with an uncanny realism a moment of innocence and caution in a post-World War II era, when an oppressive, puritanical conformism dominated white America. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z This low-key, beautifully photographed movie portrays Gulzar and Afzal as innocents who are stuck in a kind of permanent adolescence born of poverty, lack of education and a puritanical Islamic culture. ‘Valley of Saints,’ Directed by Musa Syeed 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Compared with Mr. McCarthy, even much of the contemporary art world can seem puritanical and hygienic. Here’s Snow White. Don’t Bring the Kids. 2013-06-19T20:20:20Z It was sexual, yes, and thus disturbing to the more placid and puritanical observers, but it was inescapably religious too, in the sense that religion evokes realities ordinarily hidden from the human eye. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “Self-care” is newer in the American lexicon than “self-reliance,” but both stem from the puritanical values of self-improvement and self-examination. The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z This sustained tinge of hostility, so at variance with Ruth’s open and boisterous style, seems almost puritanical in its cumulative effect, and thus probably works against Sobol’s own intentions. Review: Books About Babe Ruth 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z And those who mark me down as a puritanical old sobersides may be surprised to learn that it was comedians, along with the plays of Shakespeare, that first drew me to theatre. Z is for zanies 2012-06-05T13:46:31Z TB It may be distasteful to people, because of our puritanical whatever, but it’s not about engaging in the acts – it’s about taking lessons from that. Steve McQueen meets Tarana Burke: ‘I want to be part of shifting the narrative’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z A high-minded commitment to women's liberation could have its puritanical aspect too. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z A report this month from a state university and circulated in official media, ranked Chinese stars in order of their social responsibility, including their moral conduct - underscoring an increasingly puritanical focus on good behavior. A lady vanishes: In China, a movie star disappears amid culture... 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The first concerns the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, whose Miami branch was made up of American hippies with a puritanical streak. | 'Square Grouper': Adventures in the Drug Trades 2011-04-15T04:23:01Z The only reason that Heard's demure side-part and puritanical blouses are so easily recognizable – and meme-able – is because our network filmed them and then made a point to re-air them again and again. With the Depp-Heard trial, courtroom television's exploitative tricks reached new misogynist heights 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z She’s a respectable widow with a puritanical daughter who expects her to retreat into purdah after her husband’s death has ended a marriage in which sex was “a stern, tight-lipped affair.” Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z Notions like fate and familial superiority, which are prevalent in Star Wars and Harry Potter, are forsaken in favor of the more traditionally puritanical American ideal of hard work. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Whether practiced by straightedge punk bands crossing the country in a van or animal-rights activists gathering for a rally, the embryonic incarnation of veganism usually came with a touch of puritanical renunciation. Vegans Go Glam 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Cooke rendered the lines with an ominous aggression that felt almost puritanical. Music Review: Sasha Cooke’s Recital Balances Grandeur and Intimacy 2014-02-05T22:14:23Z He also defended the ratings system, which critics, filmmakers and audiences often gripe about, saying it can be too permissive on violence and puritanical on sex. Chris Dodd makes debut as Hollywood advocate 2011-03-29T22:21:24Z Indeed, there's something almost puritanical about his "step-by-step quest for self-erasure." A new John Cage biography: plenty on the music, less revealing of the man 2010-12-02T00:58:00Z Yet regardless of the quality of the designs we’re seeing, the mood can seem austere to the point of being puritanical. The End of Gender 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The Drums hark back to the most puritanical period in indie music's development, represented in the UK by the bands of the so-called C86 scene and in the US by K Records and Beat Happening. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z “It very much feels like Bill Cosby is giving America a blueprint for what he’s doing,” one replies, while another merely rolls her eyes: “Let’s not get too puritanical.” Perspective | Bill Cosby is disgraced. But can he be erased? A new TV series wrestles with that question. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z There is a puritanical lesson to Walt’s life: he becomes a master criminal and ruthless killer with very little to show for it. The Tv Watch: High Bar Has Been Set for the Finale of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-12T02:00:11Z If his own moral alienation as an excluded young man in laissez-faire LA led him to create the confused and puritanical Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver, life as a Hollywood director wasn’t any easier. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z This strange and beautiful print became a cause célèbre, as many interpreted it as a satire on the puritanical reforms of the day. Art Review: At Japan Society, Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 2010-04-15T21:23:00Z One concluded: “I’m amazed by the puritanical tone of this piece. What a boring, self-righteous place Britain is becoming.” Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Mitchell included that parenthetical "and men" to put a pseudo-egalitarian gloss on this puritanical crackdown, but his actual behavior suggests he's a big fan of the sexual double standard, or worse. "Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Or, as Mr. Rainer put it: “Introduce an element of hedonism to ecology — you don’t have to suffer or be puritanical to be good. Embrace the pleasure.” For a more pleasurable garden, make it fully immersive 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The kernel of the DEA's authority rests on the puritanical view that some drugs are "good," while others are "bad." Thanks for nothing, DEA. 50 years later, drugs are deadlier and more abundant than ever 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Luke, who is oddly puritanical about smoking, drinking and language, at least when it comes to his daughter, just wishes he had his little girl back. 'FUBAR' review: Arnold Schwarzenegger's first TV series gets by on predictable spy tropes 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Food banks, the use of which has reached record highs in the U.K. over the past year, are typical of the social priorities of a generation often accused of being more puritanical than punk. Opinion: God save King Charles if the coronation was his idea of modernizing the monarchy 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z He was using this term to refer to the censorship and puritanical nature of American art, and it became a meme. This 19th-Century Obscenity Law Is Still Restricting People's Reproductive Rights 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “If it were not made illegal for purely puritanical reasons, then it could be regulated and women like Koko could be protected.” Koko Da Doll, Star of Film on Transgender Sex Workers, Is Killed in Atlanta 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z It was nonsense, but the catholic, puritanical part of Italy screamed its opprobrium regardless. Lust, luck and a life less ordinary – the temptation of Gigi Lentini 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps unsurprisingly, these beliefs appeal to many right-wing figures, who perhaps see common cause in their puritanical nature. The bizarre "NoFap" movement is rooted in pseudoscience — and the right has latched itself onto it 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The prince’s emphasis on culture amounts to an assault on Wahhabism, the puritanical brand of Islam whose adherents allied themselves with the royal family in 1744 and propelled its rise to power. From oil to coffee: A prince's campaign to rebrand Saudi identity 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z People started using ‘Comstockery’ to make fun of any kind of art or storytelling or writing or politics that was old-fashioned and puritanical. This 19th-Century Obscenity Law Is Still Restricting People's Reproductive Rights 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z On one hand, conservatism is fundamentally a puritanical ideology. GOP whiners, stop pretending you cook! 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s puritanical rule over Afghanistan. Kabul’s mannequins, hooded and masked under Taliban rules 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z The 39-year-old Banks, the New York Herald reported, was “a good looking man” with a stiff, puritanical manner who “is even said never to have drank a glass of liquor in his life.” When the House needed two months and 133 votes to elect a speaker 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Of course it is puritanical, paternalistic and sexist for any government to tell women how to dress — in the U.S., the Middle East or anywhere else. Column: The hijab is rallying protesters in Iran, but the unrest is about so much more 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z No loose cannon, Hoover was actually the consummate cautious bureaucrat, the keeper of the files — really more of an uptight, puritanical librarian. Review | A biography that may change your mind about J. Edgar Hoover 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z But of course we still live in a really puritanical society. Olivia Wilde in the spotlight with ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The brothers are looking back themselves, although not nostalgically, to their childhood in the song Sundays By John Calvin - a reference to the 16th Century French theologian whose puritanical form of Protestantism influenced Scotland. The Proclaimers bite back against the UK's nostalgia 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z She added that if Turning Point USA “is the future, then the future is run by puritanical, fanatically devout Christians who will demand compliance or else.” Opinion | What Comes After the Religious Right? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z But in recent years, this puritanical approach to managing the ups and downs of the economy had fallen into disrepute. Review | A former Fed chair still wants the punch bowl — and a high-proof punch 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Who would have ever believed that it would be easier to get an abortion in two of the world’s strongest Catholic countries than in the puritanical United States? Abortion bans: How did we get here? 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z As part of Caldwell’s research, she catalogues menstrual product advertisements, which appear in the book to illustrate their propensity for puritanical shaming, and interviews family members and friends willing to share stories of their menarche. Review | In ‘The Red Zone,’ Chloe Caldwell documents life with PMDD 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z So, as difficult as it may be to overcome the puritanical impulse baked into the American psyche, the left needs to talk about sex again. The GOP's prudery is unpopular, to fight back, the left has to scold less and talk about joy more 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z This out-of-the-blue buyer was a colorless and somewhat puritanical media entity that liked observing traditional employee guidelines and was otherwise devoted chiefly to the bottom line. Inside 'Winning Time's' era of eye-popping debauchery in sports TV 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Storylines revolve around wooing advertisers, streamlining distribution and placating puritanical politicians. Review | ‘Minx,’ about the launch of a feminist porn magazine, is surprisingly timid on both feminism and porn 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z I'm not advocating voting against them out of some contrarian or puritanical impulse, and I'm not even dragging out the old Bernie vs. No exit for Democrats: Mitch has them trapped, and the path ahead is darker than ever 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Klamer was captivated by it — not by its puritanical approach, which he would do away with, but by the concept of playing at life, and by its almost infinite marketing potential. Reuben Klamer, mastermind of the Game of Life, dies at 99 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z It had exported mullahs, money, mosques and madrassas across the Muslim world, all imbued with an intolerant and puritanical brand of Islam. Opinion | The Islamic world has changed over the past 20 years. The Taliban is about to feel it. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z If the league’s new permissive attitude toward gambling appears to be at philosophical odds with its puritanical taunting policy, keep in mind that one activity increases direct revenues while the other does not. The N.F.L. Made Some Changes Since the Last Time You Watched 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z “There is a puritanical streak that runs through all aspects of money in America,” said Ramit Sethi, an author who focuses more attention than most on spending well in addition to saving intelligently. How to Buy Happiness (Responsibly) 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z For all the success she had had in Europe, the United States, with its conservative and puritanical society, lagged in appreciating the artist. The Woman Who Made van Gogh 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In Wharton’s narrative, the effects of a puritanical society work on the characters in spite of their isolation, and the violence is self-inflicted. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Norcross notes that New Year’s resolutions have become sort of “puritanical” and suggests creating resolutions for the community rather than just yourself, such as being less critical. SMART tips for crafting better New Year’s resolutions 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z “Bathroom issues have always been in the background because we’re so puritanical in the U.S.,” he said. COVID has closed restrooms across Seattle and the nation; many have nowhere to go 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z This kind of Sufi worship was anathema to Islamists like the Ansar Dine fighters who adhere to a puritanical branch of Sunni Islam. Malian accused of Timbuktu war crimes refuses to enter plea 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Of course, it’s easy to laugh at some of the puritanical content guidelines TikTok has established. TikTok’s success has made it a big target for regulators 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z That battle coincided with a surge in oil prices that gave both fundamentalist regimes the resources to propagate their brands of puritanical Islam, through mosques and schools, across the globe. Opinion | How We Broke the World 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Critics describe the prohibitions imposed by President Cyril Ramaphosa as puritanical, hypocritical and unrealistic. South African bans on tobacco, liquor amid virus stir debate 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z "We are considered fairly puritanical when compared to other countries in regard to liquor laws," Ms Schuster says. How the pandemic is relaxing US drinking laws 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Even with the easing, South Africa’s lockdown remains strict, with no sales of liquor and cigarettes permitted, which some have criticized as puritanical. South Africans walk outside as country eases virus lockdown 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Instead, this look was “aggressively proletarian, puritanical and chauvinist”. Carpe DM: 60 years of the Dr Martens boot – fashion's subversive smash hit 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z This separation between a public figure’s personal life and their work, while shocking to some outsiders, is not always a bad thing when it comes to avoiding the puritanical traps that persist elsewhere. The Polanski protests have brought France’s #MeToo reckoning a step closer | Jess McHugh 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z “Unfortunately, America is very puritanical. We have to decriminalize in the way Portugal did, and we have to do drug testing so we know what’s in the drug supply,” he said. Drug overdose deaths rise in the West while they drop in the East 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z A rare visit there by a New York Times correspondent and photographer revealed an unwieldy authoritarianism that in many ways is both more puritanical and more lawless than Libya was under its last dictator, Col. Inside Hifter’s Libya: A Police State With an Islamist Twist 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z One abolitionist, George Thompson, cancelled his attendance at a meeting in puritanical Boston, after he was warned that there were plans for him to be tarred and feathered. The climate crisis must reunite America — and yes, that could happen 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps, it’s because she doesn’t quite disavow representation in the puritanical way of Pollock and others. At the Hirshhorn, Pat Steir’s ‘waterfall’ paintings move you — literally 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The signees relied on the old-fashioned argument that a movement against inappropriate sexual behaviour somehow equalled a puritanical challenge to French sexual liberties. The Polanski protests have brought France’s #MeToo reckoning a step closer | Jess McHugh 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Much of the response was exaggerated: there was a puritanical edge to it, a touch of mythology. Pass masters Barcelona deliver first glimpse of the Setién manifesto | Sid Lowe 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z He adopted the mannerisms of Salafis, puritanical Muslims who seek to revive the traditions of Qur’anic times: wearing ankle-length trousers and an untrimmed beard, refusing to shake hands with women, forgoing music and TV. The ‘ex-closeted gay jihadist' bringing meditation to Jakarta 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z His subject, Nandy told me, exhibited all the traits of an authoritarian personality: puritanical rigidity, a constricted emotional life, fear of his own passions, and an enormous ego that protected a gnawing insecurity. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z She also has to deal with borderline puritanical rules from the big tech platforms while brainstorming about hunks, discerning what a hug sounds like, and puzzling over why people are so into stories about threesomes. The Work Diary of an Audio Erotica C.E.O. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z His first film, the 2015 horror hit “The Witch,” wasn’t just set in 1630 but grew out of the real folktales and period-authentic nightmares of a family in puritanical New England. Pattinson and Dafoe on the oddities of ‘The Lighthouse’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z His mother was a homemaker; his father was a salesman and a somewhat puritanical theatergoer who was said to have shouted “Ladies present!” when comedians performed smutty material. Peter Nichols, mordant playwright of ‘A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,’ dies at 92 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z A fear of appearing puritanical prohibits any genuine meaningful critiques of it from the left, leaving it to pearl-clutching Conservatives. Why are people silent about the abuses and exploitation in porn? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Washington’s first female statewide elected official was idealistic, disarmingly bright and politically nimble — simultaneously puritanical and progressive, a proto-feminist divorcee who sang in the church choir. A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: Josephine Corliss Preston: educator, suffragist, politician 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z This version harks back to Shakespeare’s day, when all the roles were played by men — not as an aesthetic or political statement, but because misogynistic, puritanical law barred women from appearing on the stage. Looking to catch some Shakespeare in Puget Sound parks this summer? Here’s what to see and pro tips on how best to enjoy. 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z We still live in a very puritanical country. "Three Women" get honest about sex, desire and power 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z But some Germans see the Greens as puritanical. New political climate may boost European Greens 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z I have some puritanical distrust of good things being handed to one on a plate, but I can’t pretend that I haven’t enjoyed these adventures. Chasing the Aurora Borealis 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Most of all, a puritanical Salafist interpretation of Islam, which draws inspiration from the age of the Prophet Muhammad, is attracting followers in Indonesia. Faith Politics on the Rise as Indonesian Islam Takes a Hard-Line Path 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z We believe the small-mindedness and tribalism are only affecting other people: the MAGA-hat hordes or the puritanical leftists or the craven neoliberals or whoever else. Julian Assange and the future of democracy: Is this a turning point in World War IV? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Useless factions divided by ideology but otherwise united: in fiddling their expenses, loving the sound of their own voice, scolding and blaming, and preaching the puritanical orthodoxy of the day. Militias, chaos and starvation: Britain 10 years after Brexit 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z He argued that Americans mostly still had a puritanical, Calvinist streak that associated the name Eve with malevolence, guile, cunning and sin. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes defrauded investors. Why are we obsessed with her appearance? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Such a puritanical moderation decision felt particularly incongruous in 2018, as nudity, drugs, and sex are no longer sources of moral outrage as they were in much of the twentieth and nineteenth centuries. Inside the sordid world of "Meth Tumblr" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z But he says he's not comfortable with "any type of puritanical ideas" and suggests that they continue with the puja but modify it. College tiff over Valentine's Day tree 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Such ties were particularly noteworthy because of the House of Saud’s alliance with strident and puritanical Wahhabi fundamentalists, many of whom supported a violent jihad against the west. Bush's sordid Saudi ties set template for Trump – he was just more subtle 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The real threat facing the United States came from what he called "Salafist jihadists," radicalized Sunni Muslims committed by whatever means necessary to propagating a strict and puritanical form of Islam around the world. General John Abizaid may be Trump’s new man in Riyadh 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z In 2012, the infamous "pasty tax" where VAT was imposed on hot baked goods forced George Osborne into an embarrassing U-turn while, back in 1932, the Times condemned Neville Chamberlain's Budget for its "puritanical severity". Your essential Budget trivia guide 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z To reject happy delusion on principle seems to her too puritanical, too rigid. The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z As a conservative who appreciates feminism precisely because of its puritanical streak, it’s important to concede that sometimes fears of puritanism are justified. Opinion | An Age Divided by Sex 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z They are musicians, single mothers, survivors of polarised yet turbulent childhoods and the tabloid media at its most vicious and puritanical. MIA and Lily Allen: staying loud in a world that silences women 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The aesthetic inspirations for the traditional sleepaway, in all its puritanical rigor, were likely the 19th-century ur-WASP family “great camps” — those grand but rustic compounds built by wealthy industrialists in the Adirondacks. Once a Summer Camp, Now a Family Home 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It starred his friend Buck Henry, then an unknown actor and later a well-known actor and screenwriter, as the group’s puritanical president, G. Clifford Prout. Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z There she was championed by several other writers: Alfred Kazin, Robert Lowell, and Lowell’s wife-to-be, Elizabeth Hardwick, who once described O’Connor as being “like some quiet puritanical convent girl from the harsh provinces of Canada.” Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z The images of Sanders on the campaign trail, puritanical and intent, are indelible. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Legacy of the Bernie Sanders Movement 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z His adversaries today point to that protest as evidence that Lopez Obrador lacks respect for democratic institutions, accusing him of a puritanical zeal that borders on authoritarianism. Fed up with violence and corruption, Mexican voters embrace a seasoned leftist who wants to double the minimum wage 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z No longer: These once-feared upholders of a puritanical Islamic order are now defanged — completely neutered, as the woman put it to me. Opinion | The Prince Who Would Remake the World 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Salafists are puritanical religious revivalists who support a strict imposition of Islamic law. Saudi Arabia’s once-powerful conservatives silenced by reforms and repression 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Too often, home cooks take a puritanical approach to vegetables in a quest to make them more healthful, serving them without butter or sauce and cooking them only briefly. A Surprising Way to Eat Vegetables: For Dessert 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z This 1950s, Father Knows Best soundstage fantasy doesn’t stop with paternalistic and puritanical gender stereotypes, but also promotes simplistic notions about race and patriotism. The NFL’s plan to protect America from witches | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The scientists who worked on the drug, along with historians and cultural scholars, say Viagra changed the way America talks about sex — more open, less puritanical. The Viagra jackpot: A history of the little blue pill at 20 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z French feminist ranks, meanwhile, have experienced divisions - notably when actress Catherine Deneuve co-signed a letter depicting #MeToo accusers as puritanical, only to apologize after facing a backlash of criticism. #MeToo’s global impact: Big in some places, scanty in others 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In the United States, there were many decades when the low bun was associated with a decidedly practical, puritanical, even schoolmarmish look. The enduring — and revived — power of a low bun | Produced By Advertising Publications 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z It is in no way prude or puritanical to suggest that it should be a priority of Congress to finally address one of the most obvious failures of the Internet Era. What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z But critics accused curators of being puritanical and politically correct. 'Censored' nymphs painting back on show 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Although Qataris share the puritanical Wahhabi strand of Islam with Saudi Arabia, there are no public beheadings or other spectacles that offend the modern conscience. Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The debate has raised questions, too, about what some French men and women view as the growing influence of puritanical American sexual mores on a culture long associated with more fluid and open attitudes. Response to French Letter Denouncing #MeToo Shows a Sharp Divide 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z That’s why we are so angry – not because we are “puritanical”, as the letter claims, but because we are seeking joy from sexual contact on our own terms, not abuse or exploitation on someone else’s. Catherine Deneuve: let me explain why #metoo is nothing like a 'witch-hunt' | Van Badham 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z We need to get over our puritanical attitudes towards sex and start teaching our young people when they are young what a healthy consenting relationship looks like. Opinion | When Saying ‘Yes’ Is Easier Than Saying ‘No’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Instead, we are on a slippery slope in which puritanical zeal is likely to become the political weapon of choice. Opinion | Thoughts on Al Franken’s resignation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z It absolutely needed to be said to underline the puritanical "morality" of the GOP. Al Franken to Resign From Senate Amid Harassment Allegations 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z His view of the United States as a country with an absurdly puritanical streak is not new. Response to French Letter Denouncing #MeToo Shows a Sharp Divide 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z “We’re living in such a puritanical moment right now when it comes to sex.” David LaChapelle: ‘I never wanted to shoot another pop star – I was tortured by them’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z So, notwithstanding the puritanical goodness of investment versus consumption, we really need more of the latter. Opinion | The Clash of Social Visions 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In March 2017, a group of women marched into Texas’ state capitol building, dressed in the scarlet robes and puritanical white bonnets of the Handmaids from Hulu’s about-to-be-released show The Handmaid’s Tale. How The Handmaid’s Tale inspired a protest movement 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z In a rare public appearance last week, Prince Mohammed pledged a “moderate” Saudi Arabia, long seen as an exporter of a brand of puritanical Islam espoused by jihadists worldwide. Saudi Arabia to allow women into sports stadiums as reform push intensifies 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z The crown prince's comments are the latest indication of a softening in the values of Saudi Arabia, which gloms to a fiercely puritanical strain of Sunni Islam. Saudi Crown Prince: Kingdom Will Return to 'Moderate Islam' 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Early dictionaries ignored it and later ones, in a more puritanical age, disapproved of it. A history of slang charts the change in taboos 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It’s striking how puritanical the American imagination is, how narrow its range of sympathy. When bias beats logic: why the US can't have a reasoned gun debate 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z It is exactly these sort of puritanical screeds that put so many voters off come election day. Opinion | Hugh Hefner Was My Enemy 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z They desecrated numerous ancient sites in and around the city that, in their puritanical version of Islam, they viewed to be heretical. Analysis | Before and after images reveal the huge destruction in Mosul 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z This was a public high school in a relatively affluent suburb of Albany, New York, a small city in puritanical pre-Lewinsky America. 'Simon Fuller did his market research': remembering the Spice Girls' US invasion 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Many, probably including Masood, are simply steeped in the more rigorous, intolerant and puritanical strains of the faith which, with their limited previous knowledge of Islam, they often do not question. The mystery of Khalid Masood’s journey into violence and terror 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Perez credits part of the welcoming atmosphere to the city’s French settlers - “puritanical morality” never really took over here. NBA All-Star game spotlights LGBT oasis in the South 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Perez credits part of the welcoming atmosphere to the city’s French settlers — “puritanical morality” never really took over here. NBA All-Star game spotlights LGBT oasis in the South 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z To be against violence, frightened of fanaticism, acutely conscious of the customary nature of our most devout attachments—without this foundation in realism, political action always pivots toward puritanical self-righteousness. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Attitudes toward team ownership are far less puritanical elsewhere in Europe. RB Leipzig’s Bundesliga debut is like a fairy tale in which the bad guys are winning 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z She also detects in the medical establishment a puritanical disapproval of this area of study. 100 Women 2016: Meet the orgasm doctors - BBC News 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Even the word “puritanical” is usually taken to mean sexless and joyless, as in a New York Times article chalking up American prudishness to Puritan roots. Five myths about Puritans 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Hers, with puritanical restraint, calls for just one tablespoon of melted butter. How to make the world’s best waffles 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The country adheres to the same Wahhabi puritanical creed as Saudi Arabia, but women in Qatar are free to drive and Islamic law is only applied to Muslims and Qatari nationals. Qatari cycling event foreshadows 2022 World Cup strains 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Exceptional in math and science—she was class valedictorian—she decided her college major would be physics, a field she describes as unfettered by puritanical interests. Finding Clarity in the Stars As the 20th century progressed and people of different nationalities and faiths mixed routinely, the puritanical, exclusionary nature of Wahhab’s teachings would become more and more dysfunctional. Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But, says Wayne Flynt, author of an illuminating new book on southern religion, while puritanical in the private sphere, in politics evangelical bigwigs “increasingly defined morality in terms of policy instead of character”. Absalom’s revenge 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z For some Muslims, the history of the caliphate points to a time when Muslims were God-fearing and devout, puritanical and self-disciplined, and always willing to sacrifice their lives in the path of Allah. How ISIS Twisted the Meaning of 'Caliphate' 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Two witnesses said the gunman was wearing a traditional Arab dishashada, worn by ultra conservative Sunni Salafis who adhere to a puritanical version of Islam and shun Western lifestyles. Jordanian writer shot dead outside court before trial over cartoon 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Our perverse puritanical culture is so unable to deal with s** that we persecute thousands of innocent people. Ban the Box? An Effort to Stop Discrimination May Actually Increase It 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z What a dreary, anxious, puritanical kindergarten a campus would become if students were constantly worrying whether this or that word might cause offence to someone or other. Safe spaces are not the only threat to free speech | Timothy Garton Ash 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z These are loners, misfits and socially maladjusted youths who are vulnerable to the puritanical promises of the Islamic State, and able to embrace its nihilistic agenda. It turns out many ISIS recruits don’t know much about Islam 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z How does a society recompense that divergence between a "infidel" making a huge strides for all mankind and a puritanical police state that doesn't? A Saudi Morals Enforcer Called for a More Liberal Islam. Then the Death Threats Began. 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z With television’s new proximity to the more puritanical uses of our devices, the archetype of the beached sluggard on the couch has been smuggled into a portrait of diligence. What Ever Happened to the Couch Potato? 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Wilmut: Being somewhat puritanical, I might have been a bit worried. Dolly at 20: The inside story on the world’s most famous sheep 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Ever since the group came to prominence amid security vacuums in Iraq and Syria, it has set about persecuting religious minorities, women and others whose identity and lifestyle are anathema to its puritanical creed. The Islamic State’s shocking war on gays 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Qatar, the World Cup’s hosts in 2022, adheres to the same puritanical creed as its overbearing neighbour, Saudi Arabia. The other Wahhabi state 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “Don’t be bashful,” he recently exhorted some 7,000 undercover police mobilised to uphold puritanical codes—even though the country’s mores are closer to those of Central Asia than the sex-segregated Arab world. Who’s in charge? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Your puritanical perspective is that they should shrivel up or divorce? Kenneth Starr, Who Tried to Bury Bill Clinton, Now Only Praises Him 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z She believes the hijab is not required for Muslims, but is an interpretation by “a fundamentalist, puritanical, political Islam.” The Citadel will not allow an exception to the uniform to let a Muslim student wear her hijab 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z "James Burbage's £600 freehold purchase of part of Blackfriars in 1596 is a matter of public record, as is the opposition from some of the more puritanical residents of the area," says Mr Pressley. Shakespeare's birthday: Where can you get close to the Bard? - BBC News 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z All this chatter about objectification and addiction is nothing more than the sex police borrowing 21st-century concepts they don’t really bother to understand to make the same old puritanical impulse seem modern and even scientific. Today in the GOP war on sex: Utah governor signs a resolution declaring porn a “public health hazard” 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Baseball gladly embraces its image as a blue-collar game, but has it really always been this puritanical? Enough of these MLB robots – it's time to bring back the fun | Dave Schilling 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Of course we should be able to use social networks to protest against puritanical views about women’s bodies. Facebook’s censorship of Aboriginal bodies raises troubling ideas of ‘decency’ 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z For decades, until the 1990s, doctors were closed fisted about prescribing pain medications, with little basis for that approach other than an American tendency to puritanical attitudes towards drugs. Better Than a War on Drugs 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Many believe that this puritanical thinking is the product of the Salafi school of thought, spreading throughout the world with the help of imams, social media and backed by Saudi oil money. Why Afghanistan's Nowruz has been interrupted - BBC News 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z To a secular European, meanwhile, a Cruz speech roils with the puritanical fire and brimstone of 17th century New England, a world divided between angelic good and satanic evil. Ted Cruz: the devil Democrats know – but is he the lesser evil to Trump? 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z All of this was absolutely in line with IS puritanical vision of Islam, under which any pictorial representation or shrine is revering something other than Allah, and any non-Muslim structures are monuments of idolatry. Islamic State group: The full story - BBC News 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z With their puritanical outlook and belief in going back to the basics of early Islam, Deobandis are deeply critical of Barelvi enthusiasm for such traditions as worshipping at the shrines of local Sufi saints. A game of dare 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z When she returned to China, she found a country still living in the puritanical climate set by Mao. China's high-speed sexual revolution - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Football’s puritanical opposition to the touchdown celebration seems rooted in the illusion that it actually matters who wins the game, thus the contest should be conducted in a somber manner. Super Bowl Preview, and the Silly Complaints About Celebrations 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Bangladesh was once a more tolerant place than it is today, before a puritanical form of Islam spread across the country, followed by fatwa-inspired violence and the mindless killings of bloggers. Arrested after falling for another woman - BBC News 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z But it all sounds so puritanical doesn't it? Davos: What can Formula 1 teach business leaders? - BBC News 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Wahhabism, the most puritanical and fundamentalist strain of Sunni Islam, is the official state doctrine of Saudi Arabia. Oil, money, politics and evil: Our leading Middle East ally is the worst country imaginable 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z An Ohio native, Wright was influenced by puritanical beliefs and sharp political ambition. How the Mexican Drug Trade First Began 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The Taliban is a conservative clerical movement loyal to the puritanical version of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, practised by the vast majority of Sunni Afghans. Why Taliban special forces are fighting Islamic State - BBC News 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Al-Huda specialises in attracting middle-class, educated women to discussions about a puritanical form of Islam that critics say is akin to the Deobandism of the Taliban or the Wahabism of Saudi Arabia. San Bernardino shooter's 'hardline' Islam not an outlier in native Pakistan 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Critics of the group say it promotes a rigid, puritanical mind-set. Tashfeen Malik Studied at Conservative Religious School in Pakistan 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The collective was founded in the 1970s and its initial creed was a form of puritanical communism based on the thoughts of China's Chairman Mao. Maoist cult: The woman who refused to be hidden - BBC News 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z “No revolution can succeed if it continues the puritanical censorship of consciousness imposed on the world by Russia and America,” he wrote. How the American left fell in and out of love with Fidel Castro 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z What a puzzling and puritanical way to live one’s life as a fan. Cam Newton's joy is making puritanical fans angry and it's glorious 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The statement is thick with the group’s twisted view of history – the Crusades, politics – the French intervention in Syria and a puritanical disgust for western civilisation. Paris attacks: day after atrocity - as it happened 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z And they both, to some degree, split duty between two holidays — Paranorman's puritanical ghouls channel a Thanksgiving vibe with their black wardrobes and capotain hats. Paranorman deserves the love we give The Nightmare Before Christmas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z They belong to a more civilized, less puritanical way of life, demanding to be savored slowly, possibly with large quantities of butter. The Archive of Eating 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Now, Islamic State fighters, led by former hard-line Taliban members, are restoring the puritanical way of life in some areas. The Islamic State is making these Afghans long for the Taliban 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Now, its media machine has pivoted to a different—yet still controversial—sales pitch: that it is energetically building the utopian state its puritanical ideology promises. In a Shift, Islamic State Tries to Show It Can Govern 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The statement is thick with the group’s twisted view of history – the Crusades, politics – the French intervention in Syria and a puritanical disgust for western civilisation. Paris attacks: day after atrocity - as it happened 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z It is so unseemly and puritanical to speak of morals, of abstractions or absolutes like “Truth” and “Goodness.” How I Read My Way Through Postpartum Depression 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Islam there is rooted in Wahhabism, a form of the religion that Mr. Sharma describes as “regressive, cruel and puritanical.” Gay, Muslim and Armed with a Camera 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z And, while the law in the US should be strengthened to guarantee paid parental leave, there is also an awful lot of puritanical nonsense around when it’s considered decent for mothers to return to work. Marissa Mayer is not a maternity leave role model – but that's not her job | Emma Brockes 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Its puritanical interpretation of Islam deems them a form of heresy and idolatry. Isis is systematically destroying Palmyra, top antiquities official says 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Isis considers grave markers and statues symbols of paganism that ought to be destroyed, according to their puritanical version of Islam. Palmyra: destruction of ancient temple is a war crime, says Unesco chief 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Once the group took control it did destroy two shrines that it considered idolatrous according to its puritanical interpretation of Islam. Beheading of Khaled al-Asaad, keeper of Palmyra, unites Syria in condemnation 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z The Islamic State subscribes to a puritanical school of Sunni Islam that considers Shiites to be heretics. Kuwait officials identify suicide bomber as Saudi Arabian man 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z But as we’ve relaxed our most puritanical attitudes toward sex and faith — and the taboo terms that stem from them — other prohibited words have risen to replace them. How the n-word became the new f-word 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Once a minority among Pakistanis in Britain, with the young this puritanical tendency is gaining ground against the Barelvi tradition, whose colourful customs reflect the popular religious practices of Pakistan. Ramadan ding-dong 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In that realm, puritanical shows of disdain for other men and women’s weakness are guaranteed to be met, sooner or later, by the exposure of our own. The Changing American Sex Scandal 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Despite its scorn for reticence, the new sexual revolution has a deep puritanical streak. Feminists want us to define these ugly sexual encounters as rape. Don’t let them. 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Isis, on the other hand, considers itself a puritanical movement, addressing phenomena that did not necessarily exist in early Islam. Religious teaching that drives Isis to threaten the ancient ruins of Palmyra 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z And like most puritanical nonsense directed at young women these days - the concern is not for the girls, but for the lust their dresses might inspire in others. The only thing shameful about 'revealing' prom dresses are adults who obsess over them | Jessica Valenti 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Millennials may be an urbane, diverse and “tolerant” generation, but they are also caught in a vicious cultural mire of shaming, vindictiveness, and postmodern puritanical preening that rivals their 17th century ancestors. The Modern Day Scarlet Letter 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Salafists advocate a puritanical form of Islam and Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency says their numbers are rising, as is the number of potential recruits for Islamic State. German police foil planned Islamist attack near Frankfurt: report 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Reluctance to engage in frank sexual communication is treated solely as a puritanical hang-up rather than a valid desire to preserve some spontaneity or dignity. Feminists want us to define these ugly sexual encounters as rape. Don’t let them. 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But its Sunni supremacy is also being challenged by the Islamic State extremist group, a political organization even more puritanical than the Wahhabi sect that dominates in the kingdom. A Saudi Royal Shake-up With a Goal of Stability 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z While this puritanical Sunni sect is not necessarily emblematic of terrorism or violence, its followers are much more likely to empathize with the hard-liner beliefs of extremist groups. Moroccan Government Delves Into Citizens’ Religious Lives to Purge Extremism 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Militant puritanical religion, in other words, is presented as an inevitably more just an alternative to depraved secular rule. Extremist movements exploit a justice deficit 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “Ontario’s kind of puritanical when it comes to this stuff,” said Nick Lea, after buying 15 bottles of Sleeman Original Draught. Ontario’s Beer Bottleneck Is Under Siege by Brewers and Buyers 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The Muslim community has a key role to play to counter the terrorists luring their children and other Muslims with their garbage about building, as the Times put it, “a puritanical utopia.” Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z This debate is the latest that falls along the fault lines of familiar but contradictory American heritages, pitting moralistic puritanical ideals against the anti-government values of the frontier. Sports gambling in United States: Too prevalent to remain illegal? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z At worst, it was seen as a set-up; at best, the result of American puritanical excess. Bad days in Lille 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z His defenders say that the prosecution is seeking to criminalize sexual ardor, and that Mr. Strauss-Kahn is the victim of a puritanical, politically motivated witch hunt. Prostitution Trial to Begin for Dominique Strauss-Kahn 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z That means funerals are very austere and puritanical in character, with a strong impression of egalitarianism in death. New Saudi king promises continuity 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The group draws its inspiration from Wahhabism, a puritanical strain of Sunni Islam that is virtually the state religion in Saudi Arabia. What If ISIS Wins? 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Many of the institutions catering to the consumers’ every whim are the same ones charged with enforcing public adherence to puritanical Islamic strictures on dress and behavior. Lavish Malls Sprouting Up to Attract Iranian Elite 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z It is 7AM in the city of sin and I am about to do the most puritanical thing possible. I gave my body to Soulcycle for a few minutes with the CEO of Twitter 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Islamic State adopts a puritanical interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers tombs sacrilegious. Car bombs explode at checkpoints in Iraq's Samarra, three dead 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z “Doing something people find funny goes a long way to countering misperception of Catholics as stodgy, puritanical and uptight.” Despite death threats, cartoonists challenge religious hatred and censorship online 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Religious seminaries, known as madrassas — many set up with funding from countries such as Saudi Arabia — helped incubate the brand of puritanical fanaticism that defines the Taliban movement. Why the Pakistani Taliban’s war on children keeps on going 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “Ave Maria” is a perfect refutation of the puritanical idea of the guilty pleasure. A Brief History of Kissing in Movies 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z But Americans are still a puritanical and repressed bunch who would prefer to see the only rosiest picture of our sweet land of liberty. UVA Rape Survivor: Don't Doubt A Victim's Story Just Because It Sounds Horrific 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It wasn’t that long ago that Colorado restricted the sale of alcohol on Sundays, a nonsensical holdover of puritanical “blue laws.” Colorado Editorial Roundup 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “Twenty years ago, we were just emerging from the puritanical era,” she said. Bathrooms With Full Frontal Views 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Zainah Anwar, the founder of Sisters in Islam, a women’s rights group, describes a “headlong descent into a puritanical, extremist, intolerant brand of Islam in this country.” In Malaysia, ‘Allah’ Is Reserved for Muslims Only 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z This tense dramatization of the writers’ edgy partnership is so revealing you’ll probably want to stream the movie soon afterward, to revisit the innovative ways Wilder and Chandler got around the puritanical censors. Review: Play reveals tense birth of a classic film 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Call it puritanical or ridiculous, but in breeding, it’s been a long-standing practice—even though there has never been much science to back it up. How Previous Partners Affect Offspring 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Yet at lunchtime on Friday bars normally heaving with punters looked as puritanical as a New Labour seminar. Point-scoring not pint-sinking at Ukip conference 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z And many of those communities are in the habit of producing the two greatest scourges of the human race: young men without women, and puritanical rage. Men without Women 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The junta’s moral underpinning is a brand of puritanical paternalism. Uniform reaction 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z I’ve been known to discretely pour a beer into a cup in a public park, and would like to see Washington move further away from its puritanical alcohol laws. Marijuana, parenting and toking in public 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The lawmakers are arguably concerned primarily with demonstrating their loyalty, and do not aspire to turn Russia into a puritanical nation. A Russian Lawmaker's Crusade Against the Hundred-Ruble Bill 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z One of the biggest advantages for a puritanical, religiously-cloaked militant organisation like Isis is the poor governance and perceived corruption of its secular alternative - the national government of Iraq. Can Isis jihadists rule seized territory? 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Two centuries ago, puritanical Sunnis rampaged through the holy city of Kerbala north of Najaf. After years off-stage, Iraq's Sistani takes charge 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z It gives a slightly puritanical image, I know, but I thought it suited me. 'Why haven't you booked me for the Pyramid stage?': Michael Eavis answers famous festivalgoers' questions 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It also would be a harsh dictatorship in which “apostates” — defined as anyone who does not accept ISIS’s brand of puritanical Islam — face summary execution. Iraq’s disintegration could haunt the U.S. for years to come Less forgivably, however, they took a highly puritanical attitude. That Story About Irish Babies In A Septic Tank: Just Another Media Hoax 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Sold by a puritanical but practical Queen Victoria in 1850, the town of Brighton had wondered what to do with it ever since. 'Fairyland' care for Indian troops 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z But the groups all share an admiration or affinity for Al Qaeda’s brand of puritanical militancy. Terror’s Front: Local Groups, Eyes on West 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Moreover, the group promotes the puritanical Islamic view that a woman's place is in the home. Will Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls ever be found? 2014-05-06T19:05:00Z But food is in its own category, and we don’t want to be too puritanical about it. Dispatch: Let Them Drink Chocolate 2014-04-19T18:31:09Z He grew up in Buraydah, the kingdom’s fiercely conservative desert heartland, and was educated in a puritanical and xenophobic milieu. The Saturday Profile: Conservative Saudi Cleric’s Political Shift Leaves Many Perplexed 2014-04-04T15:10:40Z Nandini Mehta, his close friend and his editor at Penguin, which published his books “Khushwantnama: The Lessons of My Life” and “Sunset Club,” described him as a spartan, puritanical, disciplined, agnostic, fearless and generous man. India Ink: A Farewell to Khushwant Singh, as Well as a Celebration 2014-03-21T12:32:44Z The Saudi government prefers to align itself with a more puritanical approach to Islam, Salafism, which teaches heavy deference to Muslim rulers. Saudis Put Terrorist Label on Muslim Brotherhood 2014-03-08T02:40:10Z While some of us certainly hold progressive views about sex, we are still considered by and large a puritanical society, which may explain our mediocre levels of satisfaction. The 12 most sexually satisfied countries in the world 2014-02-19T16:00:00Z Most Americans were convinced Russians were also puritanical in those supposedly sexless days. Sex, gay rights, women’s rights in Russia: Fighting oppression behind closed doors 2014-02-09T16:00:00Z But in truth, puritanical societies are less morally alert, because the puritanical societies have the judgments pre-packaged and their hypocrisies, too. Sex and the French 2014-01-17T15:18:01Z Today’s puritanical, anti-commerce prudes—whether in the Massachusetts statehouse or the newsrooms of the nation’s elite journalistic outposts—would do well to reinvent the lessons of Gov. Shut Up and Shop This Turkey Day 2013-11-27T05:01:55Z I think we often lean too hard toward the puritanical, and dress that puritanism in the stuffy attire of equality and sensitivity even when it doesn’t quite fit. 'Metal Gear Solid V' Sexism Controversy: All Smoke And No Fire? 2013-09-06T15:15:00Z Phil Schlein, member of the board of directors at Jimmyjane and a personal investor in the company, provided a clue to the silence when he said that Silicon Valley has “a bit of puritanical attitude.” 'You Think Getting VC Money For An Adult Toy Business Is Tough?' The Perils Of Being An Adult Toy Entrepreneur 2013-08-09T22:33:00Z More violence took place in northern Yemen also on Thursday when five Salafis, followers of puritanical Sunni Islam, were killed in an ambush by Shi'ites. Drone strikes kill eight suspected militants in Yemen 2013-08-08T16:26:35Z Often dedicated to saints or descendants of the Prophet Mohammad, such shrines are forbidden according to the puritanical Islamic vision of the militants operating in the area. Bombs damage two shrines in Egypt's Sinai 2013-08-04T23:39:49Z Advocating a puritanical vision of Islam, it used its foothold in officialdom to press for Islamist-inspired changes to the constitution last year. Egypt's Brotherhood looks back, Islamist rivals look ahead 2013-07-10T12:26:39Z Mr. Khayyat’s group follows a puritanical form of Islam called Salafism that seeks to closely imitate the lives of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. New Governor Shock to Some Inside Egypt 2013-06-17T02:05:25Z Government supporters call rebels “rats” and paint them with a broad brush as Bedouins and Wahhabis — a puritanical strain of Sunni Islam from Saudi Arabia. Sunni-Shiite Violence Flares in Mideast in Wake of Syria War 2013-06-02T00:56:34Z There's something oddly puritanical about the urge to disconnect. Internet detox promotes the myth of web toxicity 2013-05-06T11:03:00Z Shi'ites complain of systematic discrimination against them in Saudi Arabia, which follows the puritanical Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam. Saudi Arabia detains two in restive Shi'ite minority district 2013-04-30T12:15:17Z The meetings happened in a mosque in Dagestan's capital of Makhachkala known for its adherence to a puritanical strain of Islam, they said. Female DNA Found on Boston Bomb 2013-04-30T03:02:13Z BenevolentLawyer I think one of our underlying problems is that the US is puritanical at heart with a good dose of schizophrenia tossed in for good measure. Bathroom Battle: States Ponder Transgender Rights 2013-03-30T00:35:25Z There were always levels of prejudice, with bigots comparing Shi’ites to “cockroaches” and hardline Deobandis—adherents of a puritanical South Asian strain of Sunni Islam—declaring them heretical. Why Anti-Shi'ite Violence May Be the Biggest Problem for Pakistan 2013-01-16T02:35:33Z In a decree in 2011, King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and run in municipal elections scheduled for 2015, the biggest change in a decade for women in the puritanical kingdom. Saudi Arabia’s King Lets Women Sit on Advisory Council 2013-01-12T00:42:24Z Our puritanical Yankee forebears were really concerned with other sinful behaviors. Slavery: Notes from Scientific American 's Archives on the "Peculiar Institution" 2013-01-07T20:15:05.863Z "It seems that some vestiges of America's puritanical heritage remain with us," noted CBS.com. Most Americans believe in love at first sight: poll 2013-01-02T18:52:10Z The world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam adheres to the puritanical Sunni Wahhabi Muslim school, which views Shi'ites as heretical. Man shot dead as police clash with Shi'ites in Saudi Arabia 2012-12-28T10:18:44Z We need to be less puritanical about politics. Joe Klein: Lincoln's Lessons for Washington 2012-11-29T13:20:25Z Carin is a smart, strong, beautiful woman with four kids who isn’t afraid to bust out of puritanical norms and discuss the darkest of animal desires with wit and sex appeal. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Wild Sex excites me 2012-11-21T15:15:00.183Z But some commentators have renewed an argument that a puritanical American culture overreacts to sexual transgressions that have little relevance to job performance. Petraeus Case Raises Concerns About Americans’ Privacy 2012-11-13T19:36:40Z Our Anglo-Saxon mentality is puritanical – 'Punish 'em forever, they did wrong.' David Millar talks to Donald McRae 2012-11-05T14:51:05Z This act follows a noticeable rise in Salafist activities in predominantly-Amazigh regions of Morocco to enforce a puritanical interpretation of Islam. Morocco stone carvings destroyed 2012-10-18T19:09:55Z Secular opposition politicians in Tunisia said last week that a leaked video of a secret meeting between Ghannouchi and puritanical Salafis showed the government was not the moderate Islamist force it claimed to be. Tunisian Islamist leader says Salafis must not be demonized 2012-10-18T13:14:14Z "This act follows a noticeable rise in Salafist activities in predominantly-Amazigh regions of Morocco to enforce a puritanical interpretation of Islam," he added. Salafists blamed for destroying pagan rock carving in Morocco 2012-10-17T18:23:17Z And they openly proselytize for their brand of puritanical Islam and political vision. Memo From the Middle East: Election-Year Stakes Overshadow Nuances of Benghazi Investigation 2012-10-16T03:01:52Z They taunt their Sunni rivals as pawns of Riyadh and puritanical Wahhabi Islam who are not willing to challenge U.S. policy in the region. Houthi rebels seen gaining new influence in Yemen 2012-10-03T14:06:53Z Who are we to get puritanical about these things? Boston Red Sox: Reflections on an Epic Fail 2012-10-03T00:05:40Z But the image change is a stretch for the 60-year-old former coal company executive, known for his fascination with motorcycles and race cars and for his puritanical criticism of Republicans he considers not conservative enough. Tea party hero changes tune to woo Ind. moderates 2012-09-28T12:56:00Z The past week of unrest and protests across the Muslim world was largely the work of more puritanical Salafists, many of whom harbor as much ire for their own governments as they do the West. After Protests, Tunisia's Salafists Plot a More Radical Revolution 2012-09-23T05:35:25Z He said that he was looking to offer them an alternative political option, different from both the Future Movement and the puritanical Sunni radicalism of the Salafi sect. A Void for Sunnis in Lebanon 2012-09-19T21:22:30Z The cult of coffee, at least in its most puritanical form, is deeply alienating, even to me; for that reason, it strikes me as a telling fault line in American life. The Perils of Coffee Snobbery 2012-09-19T11:45:06Z Those allegations do not seem to be supported by the puritanical and almost non-sexual approach of the church toward marriage—including the sublimation of desire among Moonie recruits. Sun-Myung Moon, 1920-2012: The Death of a Messiah Who Made it Rich 2012-09-03T00:05:36Z There are also Salafis, who favor a strict and puritanical interpretation of Islam and scoff at Sufi practices. In Libya, Extremists Vandalize Sufi Shrines With Impunity 2012-08-29T00:55:57Z But the suppression of morality-talk has served another very good purpose: the language itself is being used differently, as if it needed time in retreat in order to purge itself of its puritanical associations. Why morality is fashionable again 2012-07-24T19:00:04Z Many young people are attracted to Salafism, a puritanical branch of Islam. Russia detains 5 over attacks on Muslim leaders 2012-07-20T15:20:38Z But their most frequent targets have been mosques and shrines of other Muslims loyal to a version of Islam less puritanical than their own. Advancing radical Islamists lay waste to religious heritage 2012-07-04T19:32:59Z The militants, members of the hard-line Salafist group Ansar Dine, which supports a puritanical version of Islamic law, consider the centuries-old shrines of the local Sufi version of Islam in Timbuktu to be idolatrous. Militants in Mali Continue to Destroy Shrines of Sufi Saints 2012-07-01T23:56:05Z Soon after becoming crown prince, Prince Nayef vowed that Saudi Arabia would “never sway from and never compromise on” its adherence to the puritanical, ultraconservative Wahhabi doctrine. Saudi Crown Prince Nayef Dies; Led Crackdown on Al Qaeda 2012-06-16T12:42:49Z The passage of Prohibition did not start us down some puritanical slippery slope, for example. Economic View: Slippery-Slope Logic vs. Health Care Law - Economic View 2012-05-17T18:57:58Z He hoped she would not feel it incumbent upon her to unburden her puritanical soul. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z "Yes, he has a step-sister, I'm sorry to say, who has been brought up by a set of puritanical old maids—old hags, my poor sister used to call them." The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z He early imbibed strong puritanical principles, and showed a special antagonism to Laud. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Our modern custom was a revival of the French revolution, so that in this respect we are now republican as well as puritanical. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Cutter turns zealot, and wears a most puritanical habit. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z In the period of national poverty and depression that followed this event, a puritanical spirit came into vogue which was little in sympathy with Holberg’s dramatic or satiric genius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He hated Mr. Bonamy for a puritanical old pettifogger; but that was no reason why he should be rude to his daughter. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z He was entered for the church, and was accordingly educated for it; but adopting puritanical principles, he emigrated to North America, where he founded the town of Providence. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z He undertook, therefore, to explain it; and as all reformers pretend to puritanical austerity, and to a supernatural and more than human perfection, he went beyond the law. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Newspapers opposed to the party were full of stories of abuses by puritanical Islamists and Ennahda’s supposed tolerance of extreme practices. Tunisia Islamists Test Ideas Decades in the Making 2012-02-17T21:55:45Z Their puritanical fanaticism and hypocrisy is patent to all. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z In contrast to the scorn and ridicule scattered over the puritanical sect of which Raymond's parents were members, the Church of England parson, Mr. Bosover, receives a very warm pat on the back. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z Analysts said another group to watch was the Salafis, influenced by Saudi Arabia's puritanical Wahhabi strain of Islam, who also enjoyed electoral success in Egypt. Libya enjoys political flowering ahead of elections 2012-02-03T14:45:16Z Perhaps I am a little puritanical; but what can you expect? Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z She succeeded at once in disarming an intensely puritanical people by enthusiastic appeals to their childlike national vanity, by delighted acquiescence in their laughable self-righteousness. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Not that he was puritanical and condemned all such institutions, though he had a strong suspicion that they had deteriorated. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z But for this occasion they were dressed in a series of such fringes as would satisfy the most puritanical if they did not begin too late and end too early. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Many voters, including some who do not share the Salafis’ puritanical morals, say they trust the sheiks to understand their perspectives for tangible reasons. Salafis in Egypt Have More Than Just Religious Appeal 2011-12-10T19:43:35Z It was also freely rumoured that the puritanical daughter of one of the millionaire directors of the Opera House had used her influence for the suppression of the new production. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z A strongly puritanical tone, too, was observable in certain influential circles, and the clergy frequently discountenanced and condemned the poor efforts at relaxation made by officers and their wives. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z The religious faith of our puritanical fathers is too well known to need a delineation here. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z In many cases, especially of late years, it has been as silly and brutal as the most puritanical moralists have declared. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Mr Forstmann was a red-blooded conservative, not the puritanical sort that rules the Republican roost nowadays. Ted Forstmann: Large and little 2011-12-01T16:06:02Z Born in Vermont, of a highly puritanical family, he had been named for his paternal grandfather and probably also for some character from the Old Testament. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z She more than forgave him; she defended him, saying his puritanical critics exhibited “this hypocrisy of conformity.” Danielle Mitterrand, Wife of Ex-French President, Dies at 87 2011-11-23T04:30:42Z This is a naïve and quite significant confession of the difficulty he experienced in maintaining his puritanical restraint and impassibility at that time. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z The New Englanders are generally characterized as sedate, formal, and puritanical, guessing at everything, yet pretty shrewd at guessing. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z I knew nothing of life, for my puritanical surroundings and the way in which I had been brought up were developing my personality very slowly. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Those fierce sectaries seem to have entirely neglected Az Zahara, and under the puritanical Almohades we can easily imagine it would be suffered to decay. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z There was nothing priggish or puritanical about Martin, nor anything namby-pamby that suggested wings and halos and hymns. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z He visited a group of followers of the puritanical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam in Gornja Maoca earlier in the year, they said. Bosnia court orders detention for U.S. Embassy attacker 2011-10-31T19:03:34Z He visited a group of followers of the puritanical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam in Gornja Maoca earlier in the year, Bosnian security officials said. Bosnia U.S. embassy attacker says he acted alone: lawyer 2011-10-30T20:42:58Z My mother was very strait-laced and puritanical, as I have said, and, naturally, by reflection and association, I was the same. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z His life was simple and puritanical, being founded on the teaching of the Bible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z He was “stubborn, paternalistic, authoritative, frugal and puritanical,” she said. Anita Caspary, 95, Nun Who Led Breakaway From Church, Dies 2011-10-18T15:27:22Z At the same time, there is even a greater diversity within political Islam, as once-repressed puritanical voices stake their claim within the new order, even if they remain a fringe. The Saturday Profile: Aboul-Ela Maadi, Egypt?s Center Party Leader, Faces New Competition 2011-10-15T00:20:17Z His preaching was plain, scriptural, and experimental, in the good old puritanical strain. Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z It appears that balls as an amusement were not approved of, which seems a contradiction in a society which was by no means puritanical. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z You can do the semblance of work in order to satisfy his rather puritanical notion,—but I can't see that there'll be any need for you to sweat. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Some contend that the absolute monarchy of puritanical Saudi Arabia in fact violates Islamic law. Arab Debate Pits Islamists Against Themselves 2011-09-30T01:02:20Z It will surprise many of your readers to find that the reading of sermons was considered to be a mere puritanical innovation. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-29T02:00:13.910Z “Yes,” said Mr. Fabian, “the stiff-backed puritanical chair is telling the fat old rascal what a coarse bourgeois manner he shows in such good company.” Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z If the British press is akin to a pubescent boy, than their American counterparts are puritanical old ladies. The George Osborne Affair: Why the Press Doesn't Know How to Cover Sex 2011-09-14T22:47:12Z My grandfather was a sort of puritanical monomaniac; even in the days of his mental vigour I can remember him as a sterner moralist than any of one's school-masters or college dons. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Laval, whose reputation for piety gave him great influence, the Abbé Faillon tells us, at the not altogether puritanical court of Louis XIV, was completely successful in his mission. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z He is a Salafist, an adherent to a puritanical Islam, though he disavows the term. Magazine Preview: Syria?s Sons of No One 2011-08-31T12:00:01Z The puritanical strain in the composition of a good woman was the most baffling factor to cope with; the element of passion became a weak, a futile argument against its frigid strength. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Such was the puritanical principle driven deep into the moral fabric of her character by a mother who had set her a bad example. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z But some more puritanical hackers have turned vigilante, trying to disrupt LulzSec. Cybercrime: Black hats, grey hairs 2011-08-03T19:17:54Z His religious prejudices have contributed to arrest his intellectual development, for they are puritanical and antiquated in a singular and lamentable degree. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z It is scarcely less unjust to describe his poetic sympathies as narrow and his poetic morality as puritanical. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Calvin’s city, where all sorts of puritanical restrictions were enforced against harmless amusements as well as breaches of morality. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z We certainly did not intend to displease that puritanical pair and we never overstepped the bounds of joviality and fun. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Big business seems to be quite puritanical these days: drug tests, smoking bans, weight-loss programs — all of these make sense from a cost standpoint but they are also quite intrusive. You're the Boss: Monitoring the Private Lives of Your Employees 2011-07-15T11:00:03Z Though the film attack was by puritanical Islamists known as Salafists, some in the secular intelligentsia fear Ennahda is set to benefit by presenting itself as the moderate center. Tunisians nervous over slow democratic transition 2011-07-13T10:44:30Z The denizens of fairyland in The Wicked World are unacquainted with love; they form a kind of puritanical society up in the clouds. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Gutter: The Lourdes of the puritanical mind, where it finds what it seeks. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z This being made up principally of old puritanical divinity, would to most boys have appeared like the pillars of Hercules to travellers of old—a bound not to be passed. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z And this is happening at a time when, many argue, a more prying press corps, stricter public standards and greater partisanship have combined to make Washington oddly more puritanical than it once was. Technology and the Political Sex Scandal 2011-06-12T01:05:08Z I walk the fine line of being labeled puritanical and intolerant. City Room: Prospect Park Condom Crew Picks Up After Others Cavort 2011-05-31T14:04:04Z It’s kind of considered good health and vigor, which is different from Americans, who are more puritanical. For French, Arrest Forces Some Questions of Identity 2011-05-30T01:30:20Z Most feminists seem deeply unconcerned by the puritanical undertones to much of the analysis of the Strauss-Kahn case. Way of the World: A Dangerous Blurring of Distinctions 2011-05-24T14:50:05Z But while it’s tempting to just leave it there -- to decry America’s puritanical "bedroom politics" that require elected officials are performing their jobs well to resign because of affairs. The upside of "puritanical" politics 2011-05-20T13:30:00Z “In puritanical American, infiltrated by rigorous Protestantism, financial misdeeds are far more tolerated than pleasures of the flesh.” The Lede: The French Reaction to I.M.F. Chief's Arrest 2011-05-16T00:04:36Z In 1958 she was dismissed from her post, despite being the single biggest driving force in the company's success, apparently because the puritanical Tupper disapproved of her flamboyant lifestyle. Did Tupperware change women's lives? 2011-05-10T09:57:14Z But his son turned to the most extreme and puritanical forms of Islam in his late teens, partly at the feet of exiled Palestinian and Syrian religious instructors under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. What is Osama Bin Laden's place in history? 2011-05-03T11:53:34Z Well, at first, She seemed a little school ma’am, quaint, demure, Meticulous and puritanical. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Keble's inmost instinct was not love, or the sense of beauty, but a resolute and puritanical sternness. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Now, I don’t like a man to be ostensibly puritanical and ascetic—unless, of course, he’s a clergyman.” The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z The directors are harsh, puritanical men, and they are very hard to please. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z Deobandis are a puritanical branch of Sunni Islam to which most of the country’s militant groups belong. Blast at Pakistan Shrine Kills Dozens 2011-04-04T00:10:09Z He took Measure for Measure, changed the scene from Vienna to Sicily, "where a German governor, aghast at the incomprehensible laziness of its populace, attempts to carry out a puritanical reform and lamentably fails." Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Sir Emyr Jones Parry, a former British ambassador to Nato and the UN, dismissed concerns voiced by Russia as "puritanical". Obama defends US action on Libya 2011-03-28T23:43:23Z Throw a few expletives into an otherwise well-mannered drama and the MPAA's puritanical, fuzzy thinking is exposed. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 knocks the wind out of Sucker Punch 2011-03-28T10:37:08Z Though a strict disciplinarian in a military sense, Massey was aught but puritanical, and rather liked seeing his soldiers enjoy themselves in a harmless way. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z In any case, Aramco oil may be as much a curse as a blessing -- it breeds complacency, feeds corruption, and finances the puritanical strain of Islam, Wahhabism, which speaks against that corruption. Saudi Arabia Must Keep Pumping Oil to Buy Stability: Peter Coy 2011-03-03T14:04:37Z The title-virtues of his six extant books he affects to take from Aristotle; but Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Justice, Friendship and Courtesy form a medley of medieval, puritanical and Greek ideals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The prime minister has survived sex scandals in the past and some of his most staunch supporters attended pro-Berlusconi rallies earlier in the week, while branding Sunday's demonstration a puritanical and politically motivated ploy. Italian women protest over Berlusconi sex scandal 2011-02-14T04:40:33Z He has survived sex scandals in the past and many of his female supporters seem unperturbed by the latest case, decrying what they see as a puritanical and politically motivated ploy. Italian women protest over Berlusconi sex scandal 2011-02-13T13:01:14Z The net result was that a few years later the lower house of convocation only rejected by one vote a very puritanical petition against vestments and other “popish dregs.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z While the group is conservative, its brand of Islam isn’t “puritanical,” and “the idea that we are going to get an Islamic revolution in Egypt like in Iran is very unlikely, just nuts,” Rogers said. Muslim Brotherhood Gauges Possibilities in Post-Mubarak Egypt 2011-02-03T02:24:26Z This world would be a very puritanical place if folk showed themselves to be as good as they really are. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z But in the light of years, I am less puritanical in my views of the first people of the plains. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z By the sober and puritanical of the townsfolk he was detested, for he made them the subject of his biting jests. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z "I hate his puritanical ways, but there's no harm in him." One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z It’s an old saw that Americans — we descendants of Puritans — are puritanical. The Way We Live Now: Scanners Gone Wild 2010-12-03T14:04:00Z Officially, Qatar subscribes to a relatively puritanical school of Sunni Islam, but tends to be milder than Saudi Arabia, its much larger neighbor to the west. Qatar: It?s Small, It?s Hot and It Has Lots of Money 2010-12-03T01:05:00Z The United States is keen to see reforms continue after the September 11 attacks of 2001 on U.S. cities brought Saudi Arabia's puritanical Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam to the top of global concerns. Saudi king to make U.S. trip on Monday over health 2010-11-21T13:51:00Z The more puritanical rulers who followed him deemed its lavishness a distraction from the sober business of prayer. Selma Al-Radi, Restored Historic Madrasa, Dies at 71 2010-10-15T01:51:00Z As for Jeter, there is something puritanical and prudish to the charge that he cheated. A Boy Scout Pulls a Fast One 2010-09-18T19:29:00Z "Games have always faced a sort of puritanical challenge in this country, that they are okay to play as kids but weird as adults," said Mia Consalvo, who researches games at MIT. FarmVille, other online social games mean big business, and bonding 2010-08-02T18:26:00Z Hundreds of religious schools sprang up teaching Salafism, the puritanical sect that denounces all other sects as heresy. Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan? 2010-07-07T00:34:00Z In rural areas, it was the one cash commodity that could be made of crops; in urban ones, it was a way to thwart the will of puritanical elites. White Dog Rising: Why Moonshine is Having a Moment 2010-05-18T08:55:00Z In his private life, he was not always puritanical. Anwar al-Awlaki: From Condemning Terror to Preaching Jihad 2010-05-08T21:38:00Z But so were his strengths, his grinding energy, his puritanical high standards over money throughout the expenses crisis, and his unflagging seriousness. The Gordon Brown years, through highs and lows to grinding endurance 2010-04-05T22:54:00Z “We’re very resistant to change, and there’s a puritanical mindset,” he said in an interview before the vote. New Hampshire Budget Gap Fuels Fight Over Gambling 2010-03-27T23:46:00Z Some southerners say Saleh's ties to Saudi Arabia, Yemen's biggest donor, have led the president to tolerate inroads by the kingdom's puritanical Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam. Yemen offers talks with separatists 2010-03-09T21:37:00Z But many young Bosnian Muslims, particularly from rural areas, have in recent years adhered to the puritanical Sunni Muslim Wahhabi sect under the influence of Islamic foreigners. 2010-02-02T20:10:00Z A pity our host is so puritanical," she said to her partner; "he is looking at us now as if he would like to annihilate us both, and all because we are dancing! Capricious Caroline Her grandson, who lived under her roof, was one of Pliny’s dearest friends, a spotless and almost puritanical character. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Of course there were then, as there have been ever since, puritanical people who objected that heathen lays and heathen ways were no fit concern for a Christian man. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Do you know, most puritanical solicitor, that you have made a splendid conversion there? The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 "Of course not," he affirmed with almost an inflexion of puritanical rigour. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The women's ideas about circuses and circus performers were, putting it mildly, puritanical; but the men liked Daisy MacQueen—and took no pains to hide it. The Night Operator Macheson, in whom were generations of puritanical impulses, found himself shrinking back in his corner. The Missioner He treated me with a now admiring, now mocking wonder, because being in love, and in no way lucky in that love, I had grown exceedingly puritanical so far as my immediate neighbourhood was concerned. The Trembling of the Veil I can't help being stiff and puritanical and disliking certain things. The Furnace The puritanical times begin to look romantic in the distance. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow But now every fool will cry out at me in this staid, puritanical old town, and all because a few bones have been found of animals which have died in the cause of science. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth There was one sour-looking puritanical person on board, who regarded the music and dancing with which the poor emigrants beguiled the tedium of the long voyage with silent horror. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. I am sick of your puritanical ways, and I have resolved to change them. A Daughter of the Union The puritanical regulations, issued by the German Culture Alliance, against alleged immorality in art, literature, and fashion conflicted frequently with the legitimate rights of artistic presentation. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) In Walter Scott, women appear as romance in a cheap edition; Byron in their regard is a beast of prey, Doctor Johnson a pompous brute and a puritanical sensualist. The Intelligence of Woman Pulcheria was puritanical and austere in her manner of life, while Eudocia had a fondness for dress and for the innocent gayeties of life which characterized the women of her race. Women of Early Christianity We must imagine her as a proud, puritanical old matron, who made herself a terror to wrong doers. Roman Women But this kind of polish is intolerable when laid over a hard, calculating, really puritanical Scotch nature. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl We are still suffering under a like effect of the puritanical spirit, the traces of which will perhaps never be effaced from our national character. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels |
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