| 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. |
| He introduced to music a new puritanism, an acute political awareness and diamond-hard intelligence. |
| Outside the Hungry Pilgrim restaurant stood an examplar of esurient puritanism dressed in a black-and-white Cromwellian costume with hair in a pigtail. |
| His character has often been explained as the result of his grandmother's puritanism. |
| Within the movement Peter of Chelcic represented the traditions of Eastern puritanism and freedom from official control in matters of religion. |
| They brought back a sensuousness and emotionalism to art which had been banished by the puritanism of postmodernist theory. |
