purism
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Like them, he wanted professional success, public office, and the ordinary rewards of American life; and like them, he bears no trace of political or moral purism.
From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
