How to Use puritanism in a Sentence

puritanism

noun

• But the party’s puritanism is at odds with the tastes of young Chinese.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Which brings us to the party that really pays for the new puritanism: the arts consumer.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The stigma is part of a creeping puritanism that has stifled the arts in Egypt in recent decades.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 8 July 2018
• There is a certain amount of puritanism that exists in the United States.
  — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Those seeking a more sobering perspective on the toxic highs of celebrity may want to make the pilgrimage to the Boston area, the cradle of admonitory American puritanism.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• The moment encapsulates a central challenge: to explore the repercussions of a business dependent upon the sale of the flesh through storytelling that never slips into preachy puritanism or flat-out pornography.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2017
• That relationship allowed investigators to paint Muck as both subversive and immoral—a one-two punch of xenophobia and puritanism.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
• For modern progressivism is a form of secular puritanism: dour, joyless, haunted to sleeplessness by the prospect that somebody, somewhere might be thinking unsanctioned thoughts or acting in unapproved ways.
  — James E. Person Jr., National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• In my view, forms of puritanism and freedom have coexisted simultaneously in every era.
  — Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Our puritanism, that is, permits and fosters the politically pornographic.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• Oil wealth has hidden a woefully unproductive economy, and fuelled Islamic ultra-puritanism around the world.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• As a result, indie rock’s penchant for puritanism and subcultural snobbery was dwindling, and authenticity was beginning to be privileged over obscurity.
  — Emma Madden, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
• Season One established a fallen version of America, explaining that the country collapsed following a rapid decline in fertility rates, which prompted the rise of a totalitarian government founded on puritanism and misogyny.
  — Emma Dibdin, Esquire, 22 Feb. 2018

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