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Example sentences for: puritanical

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A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.
Apart from the tiresome degradation of society arguments from the puritanical, everyone is familiar with this word in its many forms.
Jesus claims to have been an Essene, a member of that strict Jewish sect whose puritanical customs and views of life it has been the delight of modern fantasists to reconstruct.
She's right, for example, that sex education now is a bad compromise between puritanical shame and a cold, clinical detachment.
As writer-actor Harry Shearer (who spoke later on a panel on comedy) pointed out, "The thing that is rarely mentioned is that because this is a puritanical society and you can't show sex, we eroticize violence.