Moreover, he notes that while there have long been tendencies toward
puritanical Islam within Muhammadiyah, the organisation's focus on practical activities usually brings compromise and moderation.
Much of Thompson's criticism of the South's lack of devotion to egalitarian political reform is
Puritanical, which is not to say it's completely wrong.
Justin Luke Zirilli is in no way as
puritanical as I.
The NGOs are pursuing a noble cause in fighting against the sexual exploitation of women and human trafficking and it is their right to display a
puritanical zeal.
This cutesy dark comedy seems destined for cult status, but could also connect with less
puritanical overseas ands.
THE New Puritans Christmas collection, from Topshop, evokes the new minimalism that is taking hold of wardrobes, drawing inspiration from a
Puritanical era.
Now that a 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruling has upheld a lower court's ruling that the 2006 Massachusetts law is unconstitutional, it's time for Massachusetts to put away its
puritanical and tyrannical rules and let producers and consumers of a perfectly legal product - wine - do business directly.
Once the heroine flees her uncle's court (in this production it's
puritanical England) she discovers the New World Aitken-style.
The obscure religious dignitary said the cancelling of the festival comes as an expression of imam Sadr's and Sayyed Sharafuddeen"s wish to keep the community
puritanical and conservative!
Khomeini argued that the past should bury the future and that Persians and Muslims should build their future on hostility to Israel, isolation from the West and subordinating modernity to a
puritanical Islam."
Before Olds recounts the end of her mother's life and battle with cancer, she covers some other pretty intense subjects, such as corporeal punishment while menstruating, abortions in the era of George Bush and her mother's own personal lonesome, abusive and
puritanical history.
Puritanical impulses have likewise surfaced in cultures removed from the old monotheist centres, and the ancient Buddhist revolution in India could be seen as a
puritanical reaction to the background resplendency.
Amesh Adalja's assertions that it is
puritanical to disagree with a mass prescription to immunize all girls against HPV ("
Puritanical Ideas Are Perilous," Letters, April 1, p.
