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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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.
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.