Puritanically

In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-modest.

However, Anne was not at all surprised, when on the very evening of the Prince’s departure, old Mrs. Humphreys, a venerable-looking dame in handsome but Puritanically-fashioned garments, came in a hackney coach to request in her son’s name that her granddaughter might return with her, as her occupation was at an end.

Even that smooth, close-shaven cleanliness was so Puritanically aggressive as to make one abhor the very idea of soap.

Must this Puritanically misunderstood literal statement destroy man’s dearest possession, the symbol of the reality?

If the government had kept its hands off, England would have divided into two camps, that of the Catholics and that of a Puritanically reformed church.

Bad humor on your part, or a slight indisposition, even a clamlike audience, Puritanically austere or cool from diffidence — all these things can be overcome; but the acoustic properties remain the same from the beginning of your program to its end, and if they are not a kindly counselor they turn into a fiendish demon who sneers to death your every effort to produce noble-toned pictures.

Of course he disapproved of what he did: he would not have been the Puritanically trained, country-bred lad that he was, if he had accepted with an easy conscience the idea of tossing about money from hand to hand, money that he could in no sense afford to lose, or money that no one was making any honest effort to win.

His whole influence is thrown on to the side of an austere common sense which destroys emotion because it may become fanaticism, which laughs at sentiment because it may be perverted into nonsense, which is as Puritanically cruel to the insidious blandishments of romance as Plato was cruel to the poets.

There were a Mr. and Mrs. Stettinius—she a poet; he a bleached man, with goatish whiskers and a sanctimonious white neck-cloth, who was Puritanically, ethically, gloomily, religiously atheistic.

My father, you know, was of a Norse temperament: reflective, thorough, Puritanically correct, and inclined to melancholy; […]

He had been brought up Puritanically by his mother, who kept all fiction from him in his childhood, but grounded him with the happiest results in the Bible and Shakespeare.

Robert Alfoldi’s production, with its minimal sets by John Farrell and Puritanically colorless costumes by Sandor Daroczi, accomplishes much with little.