Puritanical

English Adjective en puritanical. en H[arold] Earle Johnson Hallelujah, Amen!: The Story of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston Boston, Mass. Bruce Humphries 1965 94 President Upham delivered a lengthy speech which covered the entire history of the Society along with some Puritanical sniffing. en The wisdom of Benjamin Franklin Saturday Evening Post 1 May 1990 in his writings he [Benjamin Franklin] took an earthy, practical view of sex that outraged Puritanical sentiment. en Patty Smith Hill, gifted early childhood educator of the progressive era Roeper Review September 1995 18 1 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. . . en w:Allegra Goodman The Four Questions Commentary 101 4 April 1996 She has become very Puritanical, his daughter, and it baffles him, her strict views on religion. en This Essay Is Rated PG-13 Time 29 March 2002 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.) en Redressing Cross-Dressed Shakespeare Academic Questions summer 2003 16 3 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. en Charles H. Lippy Do Real Men Pray?: Images of the Christian Man and Male Spirituality in White Protestant America Knoxville, Tenn. w:University of Tennessee Press 2005 105 1-57233-358-8 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. en w:Albert E. Cowdrey Death Must Die w:Otto Penzler The Big Book of Ghost Stories New York, N.Y. w:Vintage Crime/Black Lizard November/December (published in Fantasy & Science Fiction) 2010 September 2012 329 https://archive.org/details/bigbookofghostst00penz/page/329/mode/1up 2 978-0-307-47449-0 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. en Kevin L. Dooley De Tocqueville’s Allegorical Journey: Equality, Individualism, and the Spread of American Values Journal of American Culture June 2014 37 2 The Puritanical elements of English society had become appalled at those who they claimed were trying to taint the fundamentals of Christianity. en George O. Folarin Theology and practice of Christ Apostolic Church on Bible inspiration and its authority in the context of Evangelical theology Hervormde Teologiese Studies 74 1 2018 The founding fathers and mothers of the CAC were Puritanical, and were almost legalistic in their understanding of Christian living. en Suzanne Fields Beware of the high-tech hustle w:The Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/30/beware-of-the-high-tech-hustle/ 30 January 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190131062907/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/30/beware-of-the-high-tech-hustle/ 31 January 2019 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.