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But political pressure from the puritanically minded should not be discounted.

Anthony Wood describes him as being at that time "puritanically enclin'd".

He complains that audiences have become more puritanically leftist than the censors.

Remember how people used to mutter about high suicide rates in Sweden's welfare state, puritanically implying cause and effect?

Rockers followed paths that more solemn electronic composers puritanically disdained.

He remained scrupulously fair and puritanically honest, but there was no laughter, no joy.

The models' heads were swathed in simple scarfs and dresses were puritanically plain.

"But Lucas is married," said Paul puritanically.

Voysey's interiors were almost puritanically plain and, like his hero Morris, he designed his own furniture.

Tully was "a person of severe morals, puritanically inclined and a struict Calvinist.

Radio Hanoi reportedly commented on troops "dressed in rags, puritanically fed, and mostly disease ridden."

As we left the subway station, we passed grand buildings made up of columns and puritanically straight lines--the old Establishment.

Born near Paris, he was the scion of a prosperous textile family so puritanically frugal that he thought he was poor.

The wind had shoved puritanically between them and made a hoot of their kisses; rain had doused them like a boy scout's cure.

Indeed, built in a puritanically modernistic style, Stellings Hus complements the classicism of the surrounding buildings.

They sang and danced rather more than the sober Dutch, but they worked hard, prayed devoutly, and were almost puritanically modest in their intimacies.

Tell that to the puritanically named Iris Prue (Sally Field), a fairly upscale, jewelry-wearing 45-year-old wife and mother.

These moments become more and more rare in Mr. Bresson's later work, as if he puritanically saw in them too much pride and worldly exuberance.

Dutch forces in the province of Uruzgan have found that, when left alone, the Taliban alienate communities by living parasitically, lecturing puritanically and failing to deliver.

As such Cameron distinguished between the faith, practised with varying degrees of intensity like most others, and the political ideology promoted by an historically small but puritanically potent faction.

Rather, they seem to reflect an acknowledgment that Saudi Arabia and the United States have very different cultures, one liberal democratic, secular and libertine, the other monarchical, puritanically Muslim and inward-looking.

Rigidly, puritanically attached to neutrality, Woodrow Wilson was driven to take and maintain a stand on traditional neutral rights less for their own sake than because they were part of the neutral's role that he grasped with fierce intensity from the beginning.

The one outstanding virtue of True's book is his close attention to musical politics, especially Cobain's ambivalent relationship to the puritanically anticommercial, do-it-yourself ethos he discovered among the musicians of Olympia, Wash., where he lived for several years.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup, not far from Paris, on Aug. 22, 1908, the oldest of five children in a wealthy family so puritanically frugal, he once said, that as a small boy he thought he was poor.