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I think it is merely that these whisky bottles raise our puritanical hackles from time to time.
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Many of those it libelled could not afford to bring an action—as the prurient, puritanical editor well knew.
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The intellectual progressives have a puritanical attitude to reductions in taxation.
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I am not puritanical in matters of art or of literature, or anything of that kind.
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Why is it that we suddenly get a puritanical reaction of this character?
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We must stop looking with such a puritanical eye at those who increase their incomes at all levels.
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They are puritanical people who want to inflict their view of how to raise children on other people.
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I do not take a puritanical view of private expenditure.
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I do not go along with his rather puritanical view of our duty to society.
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I do not speak now from a narrow puritanical view.
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I am surprised to find that he is so puritanical about credit cards and spending.
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Puritanical for the law, he campaigns for the acceptance of his surname and fails in his campaign.
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I cannot agree with the puritanical attitude that nobody who has had a drink at all can be trusted to drive a car.
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In many respects, this country is still extremely puritanical.
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I therefore hope that nobody will accuse me of having a puritanical attitude towards drinking.
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Our puritanical attitude has often been ridiculed by foreigners, and in many cases it has gone too far.
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His squeamishness is apparent, as is the puritanical attitude of himself and those ladies who were accompanying him.
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I shall be puritanical for a moment and it does no one any harm to be so from time to time.
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They take a puritanical view; they do not mind what people do as long as they do not enjoy it.
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He was almost into overdrive when he spoke about being hounded with puritanical zeal by self-appointed groups, helped by lashings of public money.
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We should get away from the old puritanical philosophy that hard work is a part of virtue.
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I take the stand not in a puritanical or holier-than-thou attitude.
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One does not want to be over-puritanical on the one hand or too permissive on the other.
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Do not let us get on to the puritanical side of the question, but let us deal with a business proposition as plain, simple men.
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There is a puritanical drive about them which is frightening.
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Perhaps we are inclined to be a little puritanical in this matter.
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If we want to become really puritanical we could take as an example the clock at the corner of the screen during breakfast television.
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They were a pretty puritanical lot and absolutely teetotal.
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I know that he comes from a strictly puritanical background.
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We should not allow puritanical dogma to stop people having something they want.
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He called for a puritanical spirit.
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I take a puritanical view about the degree of the rewards of racing, while admitting that unless owners are given some reward the sport will die.
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The word is not puritanical.
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I hope that, just this once, he will forget that he is the puritanical son of a manse and announce an increase in the aid budget.
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I do not suggest that there should be a totally puritanical attitude which is out of touch with reality, but we should have a sensible approach to these problems.
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I take a rather puritanical view.
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I am sure that he did not mean to imply that, but it might be read into some parts of his rather puritanical and hair-shirted speech.
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The nature of the tasks changed but the puritanical regime continued until 1818.
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She is described as not being hard and puritanical but rather having a nature-loving spirit.
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Earnest, concerned with social issues and moral values, it is puritanical poetry in which aesthetic considerations are secondary.
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In modern times, few such puritanical social mores persist.
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In the beginning, the group had rather strong puritanical ideas - no drinking, smoking, and no dancing!
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Raeder often impressed people who knew him as aloof, uncomfortable in professional relationships, religious, authoritarian, puritanical, intolerant of individual initiative... and extremely sensitive to criticism.
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As an upper-class socialist he held a puritanical view of society, enforcing rationing with equal severity against all classes.
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He is variously ugly, impotent, puritanical, and foolish to be cuckolded by a young and handsome man.
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Morec has created an ultra-conservative and puritanical society that is oppressive and judgmental of its fellow citizens.
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Despite his young age, he had a reputation at court for puritanical austerity.
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He has written that he was brought up to react to wealth with a puritanical pout.
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His manners were quaint and puritanical, his address shy and embarrassed.
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Science fiction in particular has traditionally been a puritanical genre oriented toward a male readership.
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The puritanical pastor leads confirmation classes and gives his pubescent children a guilty conscience over apparently small transgressions.
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He adopts a strict, puritanical way of life.
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Even before religious sensibilities turned towards the puritanical, there were concerns about the lack of piety at such events.
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We felt then that time could only find its full expression through an art that was frugal, ascetic, puritanical even...
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In addition, it's stylistically po-faced, overly pious and almost puritanical about the subject matter.
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Worrall's sometimes brusque approach to dealing with individuals and his puritanical attitude to alcohol and other distractions didn't help the situation.
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They promote healing from damaging messages from strict puritanical belief systems and social stigmas that stifle one's natural sexuality.
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Due to economic condition following the war, the thermal bath was redesigned in a much more puritanical manner.
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The club responded by adopting a more puritanical adherence to the amateur regulations, and were reinstated.
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Her father was puritanical, a man who rarely displayed any affection towards his daughters.
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He recently built it for five million bucks: a harsh structure for puritanical worship, a simple solid excess of concrete, white marble, and black steel.
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The melodramatic moral work depicts a stern patriarch of inflexible puritanical morality casting out a fallen woman and her illegitimate baby - probably his daughter and grandchild - from his respectable house.
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The regime was severe, almost puritanical.
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Science fiction in particular has traditionally been a puritanical genre orientated toward a male readership, and has been described as being by men for men, or sometimes for boys.
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She was accused of rejecting the puritanical expectations of self-control and discipline when she chose to torment and scorn children instead of leading them towards the path of salvation.
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They argued that seeing women as victims was puritanical.
The pessimistic and puritanical classical economists, with the pessimistic and puritanical romantic opponents of industrialisation, were wrong.
He must never slacken in maintaining the ascetic, puritanical, devotional way of life.
Extreme reductionism is usually a sign of restricted outlook and it seems safe to say that sociobiology will not remain long in so puritanical a stage.
The problems will not, however, be solved by adopting puritanical positions and eliminating aid to producers.
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Then there is the puritanical sideslip.
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Perhaps my approach to this problem is a little old-fashioned and perhaps a little puritanical.
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I suggest that this 13il1 is a really fair compromise between unrestricted licence and a puritanical renunciation of simple pleasures.
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There are plenty of firms which are by no means puritanical in this respect.
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We are, of course, concerned with the morality of gaming for purposes of charity, but we should not take too puritanical a view.
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I do not think that he can accuse me of being puritanical by nature.
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I am the last person to be puritanical in this respect.
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On that occasion he chided me in a very charming manner for my puritanical approach.
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I take the puritanical view that no one should go into owning horses in the hope of making money.
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