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Example sentences for: puritanical

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His childhood on his family's sylvan 3,500 acre estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was one of almost unimaginable privilege, yet from the beginning he felt compelled to flatter, cajole, and even engage in abject self-criticism if that's what it took to get his way, particularly with his puritanical and disapproving father.
She has a puritanical sensibility.
Apart from the tiresome degradation of society arguments from the puritanical, everyone is familiar with this word in its many forms.
Or, put differently, one's views of sexual harassment are inevitably intertwined with one's views of “healthy sexuality,” and, as others have pointed out, the current debate has been framed by the largely puritanical segment of the women's movement.
Perhaps the most notable quality of the Christian sex business is that it is evangelical, not puritanical.