Puritanical

A dozen years on and we live in times which are, depending on your point of view, either drearily puritanical or simply more considerate.

Old puritanical fantasies about who we are as a society are a harmful relic, as are the punitive tax structures surrounding cannabis.

The original essence of Sufism, marked by its puritanical spirit and focus on inner spiritual growth, seems to have faded over time.

What “the Marshal” has created there, their report shows, is not the secular stability he promises, but “an unwieldy authoritarianism that in many ways is both more puritanical and more lawless” than that of Libya’s last dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

A fear of appearing puritanical prohibits any genuine meaningful critiques of it from the left, leaving it to pearl-clutching Conservatives.

SBS's three-part miniseries was a gem: visually superb and increasingly fascinating with its view of a gay man attempting to survive in a puritanical society, a feisty heroine and several mysteries which slowly unravel.

Suck it up you uptight puritanical coonts.

The song was during the liberation war a soldier’s puritanical bible, and was adopted into the independent Zimbabwe still as the guiding principle of the army.

The UK government is going to remarkably puritanical lengths to make sure the youth can’t look at online fucking.

Well HereIAm, you can always take your ass to Saudi Arabia or any other theocratic ruled nation and soak in the puritanical wholesomeness of their moral societies… you know, instead of imposing your obvious hangups about porn on the rest of us.

For the most hardcore anti-smoking advocates of the 2000s, it was often a puritanical adherence to cold turkey or nothing.

In later years, she was an exotic figure in feminist circles, a slightly camp grande dame, vivacious and beautiful, although sometimes at odds with the often puritanical attitudes of some feminists towards self presentation.

After Lorenzo's death the puritanical Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola rose to prominence, warning Florentines against excessive luxury.

A version of Edmund Ludlow ’s Memoirs, re-written by John Toland to excise the radical Puritanical elements and replace them with a Whiggish brand of republicanism, presented the Cromwellian Protectorate as a military tyranny.

Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centres on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty.

Spiritual Black Dimensions and Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia period After the tour for Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, the band recruited new members Mustis on keyboards and Astennu on lead guitar.

They promote healing from damaging messages from strict puritanical belief systems and social stigmas that stifle one's natural sexuality.

This marked the introduction of a third Abrahamic Middle Eastern religion, following Judaism and Christianity, often in puritanical form.