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"Puritan" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Tom is a puritan.
Jerome won't have sex with you, he's a total puritan.
Olga is such a puritan, she won't even swear.
The laws of this country are based on puritan values.
Call me old-fashioned, but I see myself as a puritan.
I'm not a puritan, I'm just shy.
The syncretist, the mystic, the devotee, the puritan, would find a congenial climate in these regions of Asia Minor.
I am something of a puritan when it comes to literature.
These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.
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It’s a seedy time of the night and Jacky is telling me about sailors and their needs. A man called P. C. Alexander, an ex-Indian High-Commissioner in London has cleaned up Madras. There’s a very Puritan atmosphere here now, and the seamen are not happy. ‘All ship’s crew very happy with Calcutta. Can bring many girls there. Bombay too – no problem.’ Bombay is apparently the only city in India to license prostitutes.
Chardonnay is very malleable, but once we get the fruit in we actually take a very Puritan approach to it.
I learned to work from my grandfather, who held a very Puritan kind of work ethic.
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