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"Puritanical" in a Sentence (21 examples)
It's not appropriate for puritanical misanthropic.
Their religion is known to be very puritanical.
My parents had a very puritanical view towards religion.
Jim appears puritanical, but it's all a facade.
Jim's puritanical views were not well-received by his foreign acquaintances.
In the history of the United States, the Puritans were a group of people known for having an overly restrictive code of ethics, thus giving rise to negative connotations of someone being described as "puritanical".
The host proposed divers puritanical fancies—nay, once hinted at a head of Cromwell himself; but the hostess overruled all these proposals, and stood firm by the Sun.
Mrs. Barrymore is of interest to me. She is a heavy, solid person, very limited, intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical. You could hardly conceive a less emotional subject. Yet I have told you how, on the first night here, I heard her sobbing bitterly, and since then I have more than once observed traces of tears upon her face. Some deep sorrow gnaws ever at her heart. Sometimes I wonder if she has a guilty memory which haunts her, and sometimes I suspect Barrymore of being a domestic tyrant.
Exogamy […] has few or none of the quaint superstitions which lend a certain picturesque charm to totemism. It is, so to say, a stern Puritanical institution. Its rigid logic, its complex rules, its elaborate terminology, its labyrinthine systems of relationship, it presents an aspect somewhat hard and repellant.
American society has a double standard when it comes to sexuality. We have a puritanical taboo against talking about sexuality directly, yet we are fine with the sexual images that pervade television and glossy magazines.
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President Upham delivered a lengthy speech which covered the entire history of the Society along with some Puritanical sniffing.
[…] in his writings he [Benjamin Franklin] took an earthy, practical view of sex that outraged Puritanical sentiment.
My mother’s philosophy of life was a happy one. She said children should have every pleasure that there was not some good reason they should not have—a radical point of view in those Puritanical times. . .
She has become very Puritanical, his daughter, and it baffles him, her strict views on religion.
Crude humor and violence used to earn films R ratings. These days, to get an R, you need to show something really outrageous, like a naked woman. (The system is still Puritanical in matters of sex, adult romance and flesh.)
Unlike the transgressions of Cokes, or of the grocer and his wife in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Busy’s willful and Puritanical misunderstanding of the theater meets with severe reproach.
Speer thus had a rather “Puritanical upbringing,” a description appropriate for the style of a father committed to the spirituality of the Christian man as dutiful patriarch.
He loved the house he’d built and occupied, and when activities happened there that his Puritanical soul disapproved of, he came to scare the current occupants straight.
The Puritanical elements of English society had become appalled at those who they claimed were trying to taint the fundamentals of Christianity.
The founding fathers and mothers of the CAC were Puritanical, and were almost legalistic in their understanding of Christian living.
He [Timothy Leary] famously spoke to a “Human Be-In” in 1967 in San Francisco, appealing to what was characterized erroneously as the “love generation” rebelling against the Puritanical work ethic of their parents’ generation.
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