| Both films explore what happens when communities become subject to a grinding puritanism. |
| Outside the Hungry Pilgrim restaurant stood an examplar of esurient puritanism dressed in a black-and-white Cromwellian costume with hair in a pigtail. |
| 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. |
| The poems articulate the function of puritanism as a check against the dangers of untrammelled art. |
| His character has often been explained as the result of his grandmother's puritanism. |
| The main tradition of our historical fiction has been rather homely and dour, with puritanism doing duty as the mother of necessity. |
