They brought back a sensuousness and emotionalism to art which had been banished by the puritanism of postmodernist theory. |
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His character has often been explained as the result of his grandmother's puritanism. |
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He introduced to music a new puritanism, an acute political awareness and diamond-hard intelligence. |
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If it seems that way, it is only because of the puritanism, the pious emotional parsimony, of our American era. |
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The poems articulate the function of puritanism as a check against the dangers of untrammelled art. |
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Both films explore what happens when communities become subject to a grinding puritanism. |
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Their story champions freedom over constriction, sensuality over puritanism, living for others over living for success. |
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The main tradition of our historical fiction has been rather homely and dour, with puritanism doing duty as the mother of necessity. |
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They were baffled when I refused to change quoted words to make them more suspenseful, euphonious or, with the puritanism of Americans, less coarse. |
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But on the ground, their own sectarianism and fanatical puritanism often lead the Salafi to reject or alienate those who might otherwise be their allies. |
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It is true, as the green consumerists argue, that most people find aspirational green living more attractive than dour puritanism. |
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American women expressed their support and impatience when fighting puritanism and conservatism using Femen tactics. |
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Outside the Hungry Pilgrim restaurant stood an examplar of esurient puritanism dressed in a black-and-white Cromwellian costume with hair in a pigtail. |
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Some people would tell the story of your earlier life as an escape from the austerity and puritanism and greyness and lack of colour of Britain at that time. |
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Attitudes have been shaped for centuries by Confucian morality and then communist puritanism. |
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Within the movement Peter of Chelcic represented the traditions of Eastern puritanism and freedom from official control in matters of religion. |
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Is there some truth in that or is it just latent puritanism? |
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His letter in 1626 to Henry Downhall, an Arminian minister, suggests that Cromwell had yet to be influenced by radical puritanism. |
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And to avoid the puritanism of certain times, maybe not so completetely over than that, the Blues kenw how to becom humorous, scoundrel, and was often declined at a second degree. |
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He postures about puritanism and privacy, and in these documentaries I note how his posture alters the more he becomes a creature of transmissions. |
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A certain puritanism is wary of success and the money accompanying it. |
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He pursued a policy of modernization, and combated the religious puritanism of the time, discriminatory nationalist trends and totalitarian Marxism. |
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Their goal is to create other states that adhere to their puritanism. |
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But these objections seem to be driven by puritanism, not by reason. |
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And let America rise up in revolt against all the petty princelings of puritanism, before every aspect of social life is criminalised, pathologised, regulated or legislated out of existence. |
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Have you seen signs of the rise of a new puritanism in your hometown? |
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The education system trained liberal elites, who are still influential today and combated the strait-laced and over-sensitive puritanism characteristic of certain circles during earlier periods. |
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Macaulay joined the Whigs partly as the only alternative, having rejected both his father's Evangelical puritanism and a newer version crafted by Utilitarians. |
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His thoroughgoing Puritanism meant that he constantly subjected himself to self-examination. |
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It is a secular 'born-again' phenomenon that has its historical origin in Puritanism as part of the American psyche. |
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Many of the precepts of Puritanism survived well into the nineteenth century. |
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The disintegration of Puritanism preceded any attempt to impose the Presbyterian system. |
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Her story of the work ethic begins with its invention in 17th-century Puritanism. |
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Yet even Puritanism was, in the end, concerned with the individual soul, and individual salvation. |
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Puritanism entails hostility to the traditional culture as well as enthusiasm for sermons and predestinarian theology. |
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The dominant Whig Party appealed to Massachusetts, large Congregational church denomination, which had its roots in Puritanism. |
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English Puritanism temporarily triumphed during the English Revolution. |
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Cromwell's Puritanism was offended by bacchanalian revelry, led by the Lord of Misrule. |
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Theologically, Puritanism represents an emphasis within the Reformed Protestant tradition on intense personal devotion and extreme ethical probity. |
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Yes, there was to be a new Hedonism that was to re-create life, and to save it from that harsh, uncomely Puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival. |
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And, actually, the roots of this do-goodism are ultimately in New England Puritanism, which had many characteristics associated with today's left. |
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Yet the Dionysian stereotype of the Gael, juxtaposed against the Apollonian Englishmen, masks the new Puritanism that is currently sweeping through the Twenty-Six Counties. |
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Thus, Puritanism was the natural ally of a people preserving their traditional rights against arbitrary monarchical power. |
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The genius of Puritanism, with all its forefixed concatenation of misdeeds and punishments, had served me out properly. |
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Positive thinking is Puritanism with a capitalist face, she believes. |
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The image of God that was founded in Puritanism, Jansenism and Victorian mores also was a contributor. |
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The town had a long history of religious dissent from the Lollards and Puritanism gained a strong hold on the town. |
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By the 18th century, Puritanism was in decline and many ministers were alarmed at the loss of religious piety. |
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The Assembly remained strong in England until the reign of Charles II, who ended many of the strict practices of Puritanism. |
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He organized the Assembly of Saints, a firm and strict sect of Protestantism that was very similar to Puritanism. |
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He received tuition from John Walsall, a graduate of Oxford with a strong leaning toward Puritanism. |
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He showed signs of sympathy to Puritanism, attending the sermons of the Puritan chaplain of Gray's Inn and accompanying his mother to the Temple Church to hear Walter Travers. |
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Puritanism combined Calvinism with teaching that conversion was a prerequisite for church membership and a stress on the study of Scripture by lay people. |
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Samuel Harsnett was a ceremonialist disciplinarian who began the potentially explosive strategy of redefining Calvinism itself as doctrinal Puritanism. |
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The rest is a mishmash of superstition, pietism, a sugary sentimentalism, a streak of Puritanism, and a bleak authoritarianism borrowed from Victorian England. |
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As second-generation Protestants, early Baptists were impacted by earlier approaches to a believers' church reflected in Anabaptism and Puritanism. |
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According to Weber, Confucianism and Puritanism are mutually exclusive types of rational thought, each attempting to prescribe a way of life based on religious dogma. |
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Weber focused on those aspects of Chinese society that were different from those of Western Europe, especially those aspects that contrasted with Puritanism. |
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Merton focused on English Puritanism and German Pietism as having been responsible for the development of the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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