Examples of puritanism in a Sentence

the Victorian era was often characterized by a hypocritical puritanism

Recent Examples on the Web In the English-speaking world, this was a product of puritanism. — WSJ, 19 May 2022 The news was at odds with Keillor’s public persona as the gentle, avuncular satirist of Midwestern puritanism. — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021 Even when the proceedings become a touch tawdry, there’s a blessed absence of American puritanism in their presentation. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 June 2021 For modern progressivism is a form of secular puritanism: dour, joyless, haunted to sleeplessness by the prospect that somebody, somewhere might be thinking unsanctioned thoughts or acting in unapproved ways. — James E. Person Jr., National Review, 17 Sep. 2020 In my view, forms of puritanism and freedom have coexisted simultaneously in every era. — Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019 Oil wealth has hidden a woefully unproductive economy, and fuelled Islamic ultra-puritanism around the world. — The Economist, 23 June 2018 That relationship allowed investigators to paint Muck as both subversive and immoral—a one-two punch of xenophobia and puritanism. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019 Which brings us to the party that really pays for the new puritanism: the arts consumer. — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019 See More

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