purism

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“There’s no point of having some kind of a revolutionary purism that you should only preach to the choir. That would be completely pointless,” Malm said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2023

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

He picked pointless fights with his colleagues, lecturing them about his superior understanding of the law while flaunting his putative purism.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2020

He has no patience with the unrealities of sectarian purism and pedantic orthodoxy.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William