Puritanism

There was not a trace of Manicheanism in him, and he called puritanism, in his biography of Louis XIV, an “evil out of the pit”, meaning the pit of hell. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To what degree this new puritanism is due to indoctrination or to the fear of retribution is a matter of speculation. ❋ Unknown (1959)

But the Joyce-Eliot group come later in time, puritanism is not their main adversary, they are able from the start to ‘see through’ most of the things that their predecessors had fought for. ❋ Unknown (1940)

Having confessed, according to the terms of the text, that the field or ground is not the Church, but the world, he proceeds, with a very strong animus against what he calls puritanism or separatism, [14] to argue in the usual way against every attempt to purify the visible ❋ William Arnot (N/A)

But you still hung, burnt at the pyre, slashed the throats, raped, murdered and pillaged the "savages" or those who would not adopt Christianity or your Victorian-era puritanism, which is responsible and has influenced much of the homophobia in many countries in Asia and Africa. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The business park was the outpost of an advanced kind of puritanism, and a virtually sex-free zone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Note 64: Former partisan, D. Grizona, also refers to the 'puritanism' of the partisan leadership (Boutzouvi-Bania, 1993: 206). back ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the end, I’ve come back to pastry puritanism the only kind of puritanism I can stand. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though the elderly Victoria came to symbolise a dowdy puritanism, the early years of her reign were marked by scandal and assassination attempts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If ‘natural’ means to us a birthright that must be defended against puritanism, then we will be instinctively defensive and reactive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For enophiles, one of the great travesties of the past few years has been the rise of a new puritanism in France. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Worst was his seeming indifference to the cause of legalising homosexual conduct, despite the 1957 recommendation of the Wolfenden committee; while in 1963 his uncharacteristically maladroit handling of the Profumo affair owed much to a deep personal puritanism. ❋ David Kynaston (2010)

(The future is a vexed questions, however, with French wine consumption plummeting while French puritanism rises.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bruckner described a sheriff on a Florida beach ordering him to cover his naked two-year-old daughter, as an example of the US's "problem with sex", which he described as "twisted puritanism" resulting from the alliance of "feminism and the Republican right". ❋ Unknown (2011)

• Hugh Hefner's problem, says Diogenes, was not with puritanism, but with modesty, "because modest men do not purchase pornography." ❋ Unknown (2009)