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

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

Nowadays, Arellano balances his appreciation for Kennedy with concerns about her purism.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2020

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

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

As a general rule, I think, educated Americans are more apt to err on the side of purism than of laxity.

From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William