purism

Example Sentences

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Stanford’s self-proclaimed ecological purism doesn’t mean he believes we should do away with nonnative species altogether, though.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

But I do employ a similar sense of purism about the general strategy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2021

He added: "The EU needs a new playbook for dealing with neighbours, one that involves pragmatic solutions between friends, not the imposition of one side's rules on the other and legal purism."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2021

Both bands place themselves within a longer history of rock, flaunting their selected influences, and both have shrugged off any kind of purism or austerity, punk/grunge or otherwise.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2020

Literature and poetry probably lost more than they gained by the contentious purism which was long prevalent in Italy, and which marred the freshness and vigor of many an able writer.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob