How To Use Purism In A Sentence
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This attack states, in effect, that Hiatt's purism is unsustainable in the real world, and that government contracts do not automatically lead to corruption of academic integrity.
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Such purism and moral fervor seem inimitable for art writing today.
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On the theoretic level, the application of moral purism as weapon to make unlimited criticism to terrorism is the only route thoroughly solving ethical problem of terrorism.
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Hugh's rejection of what he has recognized puts the burden on us in the audience to turn from the past to the future, from linguistic purism to linguistic ecumenism, and from physical force to imaginative growth.
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I work out my sexual frustration by going to the utmost extreme in Icelandic purism.
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Both sides of the partisan divide have their little problem with purism.
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Purism, however, also has its barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses.
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Art facilities are slashed and art market is extreme fatigue, as well as a large number of galleries in collapse. Art purism has been washed by reality becoming too difficult to erect.
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This ‘Minister of Political Correctness’ is more interested in cultural sensitivity and environmental purism, than the protection of public safety in that area.
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Owen later mirrors his father's retreat into the classical past by converting to Irish language purism, signalled by his decision to restore the seventh-century name of the Murren instead of Anglicizing it.
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Keen on tradition but not on purism, Moore's country, blues and waltz repertoire includes covers and original songs, some self-penned, others written by her bandmates Peter Hay and Randall Lawrence.
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About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
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Such a doctrine is a doctrine of puritanism -- or purism, which is worse.
The Bertrams
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They use separate chapters to evaluate the respective influence of political structure, the American Federation of Labor, immigration, Socialist Party purism, and political repression on the fate of labor politics.
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I profess myself a fanatical purist, but with a hearty contempt for the speech-gilders who affect purism without any thorough, or even pedagogic knowledge of the engendure, growth, and affinities of the noble language about whose
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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There are few self-confessed purists among the critics of the English language today; purism is generally a negative term, and by and large purists are regarded as hypercorrective extremists.
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So might this hypnotic, janglingly joyous painting, which at once distances itself from the astringent purism of New York's anti-nature abstractionists and predicts the way ahead, be a case of the pupil prophesying the master?
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Well, concerns about the tax deal reflect realism, not purism: Mr. Obama is setting up another hostage situation a year down the road.
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Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, social realism, his art experienced them all.
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Nurse managers tend to hold systematised conceptions of clinical work and to be somewhat equivocal about clinical purism and opaque accountability
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In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
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Yet his sincerity, his freedom from vindictiveness, his never-failing readiness to use his eloquence to combat injustice, and a certain warmth of character which breaks through the restraints of classicizing purism make him attractive to the patient reader.
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By wasting your time attacking me, it's your absurd purism which is letting them off the hook.
How Religion is Misunderstood
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Purism was to be unsullied by ornament, fantasy or individuality and was to be inspired by the machine.
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When it comes to purism, the activists tell us that we cannot be too pure.
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Harry Seidler's breathtaking refinement of detail and visual purism, when it appeared after World War II, was aided by a new interpretation of modern architecture.
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Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, social realism, his art experienced them all.
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His gentlemanly approach to woman and his racial purism are enough to convince conservatives that he will turn around the social liberalism of the last, well, 30 years I guess.
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Despite the fact that for nigh on 10 years Dylan's been writing songs that deal in Americana clichés there seems little danger of him regressing into some kind of dullard purism like, say, Van Morrison.
Expecting Rain
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There are about 100 trends and technical forces shown, and 60 movements, many of them ‘isms’ - Futurism, Purism, Expressionism, Brutalism or Metabolism - that became ‘wasms’.
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What Bakhtin finds onerous in Kant's philosophical formulations is its purism and utopianism.
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I consider [purism] as destroying the nerve and beauty of language, while the other improves both, and adds to its copiousness.
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About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
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But generally speaking, in our emerging virtual era the stress is no longer on questions relating to style, purism, or historical tradition.
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linguistic purisms
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Gandhi could not live up to his principles partly because he was a practical politician, and the job of politics is to dilute ideological and moral purism.
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So take your assumptions about my "purism" or "squeaks and squawks" and shove them, one at a time, right up your ass.
AMERICAN DIGEST
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I also said that Barack Obama -- like some other Democrats before him -- is preaching a kind of purism that rarely succeeds in American politics.
Sean Wilentz: Who's the Real Idealist, Hillary or Obama?
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In many ways the fixed-gear trend appears to be an attempt at "purism," both mechanical and aesthetic.
From the BSNYC Culture Desk: Nerds and Bikes
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Let's not get too wrapped up in purism to be pragmaticThey party should get control of this and put up a winner, Hillary.
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies
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Without subscibing to the 'purism' fallacy, I just wonder how authentic such a language can be.
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Technically, they speak of a purism which redefines the areas of documentary photography in which they may be flippantly or carelessly bracketed.
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An extreme case of the role of purism in the expression of nationalistic and racial conscience can be seen in Nazi Germany.
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These included, as he wrote in his journals, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Orphism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, ‘and an avalanche of exposed secrets.’
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I don't care about "purism" or what other fanatics think/say.
PopWatch
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Until 1926 he painted in the cool style characteristic of Purism, depicting such objects as bottles and glasses in profile.
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Words like bjúgaldin, a banana, which literally translates as curved fruit are examples of purisms that are laughed at, but what most people don't know is that in some Bantu languages in Africa the first element of the word banana means curved'.
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Indeed, he associates the preservation of Irish and Irish language purism with destructive and self-destructive behaviors that jeopardize Irish survival on all levels.
