Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.