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

Meanwhile, it says domestic purism should be promoted to lessen consumer demand for international flights.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2021

“I like to think I’m striving for conceptual purism, for an ethereal kind of ideal.”

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

In the later Renaissance this study passed into purism.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington