How To Use Purist In A Sentence

Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
It has incurred the displeasure of purists. Times, Sunday Times
The most powerful impulse of the time can be summed up as neoclassicism, a reversion to the purist attempts of the Renaissance to reproduce classical models.
Purists value keyboard-only emoticons, while younger generations embrace an advanced set of icons - the emoji.
Chai's dish of choice is far from traditional, but he insists that purists are missing out.

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The new edition of the dictionary carries 7000 additions to the language, which purists say is under threat.
It's ski racing's biggest biennial bonanza, a snow-sport event for Alpine purists, and this year it's coming to Italy.
As a purist in his own right, Sparky has his own thoughts on what pool would encompass if he had his druthers.
They loved him none the more, of course, and spun, prawned, and wormed as before, honestly envying just a little the purist whose fly undoubtedly often justified his claims. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
I apologise to any purists in case the following suggestion is seen as something of a sacrilege, but can I ask you to help us in calling all Yorkshire poets, rhymesters, bards, balladeers and singers to help us save our pub?
Fuller is a stout purist when it comes to his hillbilly music, and has some serious rules before you can climb up on his stage.
If you're still a purist and consider gold sleepers the height of chic, time to wise up. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of countering these puny charges, let me just say that these allegations of inferior innards recall those of the phrenologists and racial purists in one of the darkest eras of modern history.
Language purists shudder at the way text-speak mangles, simplifies and abbreviates. Times, Sunday Times
Purists argue against roasting in a conventional oven because the closed space traps moisture, adversely affecting the roasting process.
The purists won't like it, but opera on TV certainly brings in the audiences.
The purist will feel the greatest disappointment though in the abandonment of any notion that pitches should be uncovered.
The old snobberies of rock purists and classical elitists make less and less sense now.
Some purists will insist that blackjack and poker are two entirely different games.
Although purists may object to split infinitives, like 'to boldly go', the fact is, they are commonly used.
I can't work out if this is for cissies or not 4 -- all done, but I suspect purists might have a minor quibble with 26. Cryptic crossword No 25,236
They were to become isolated to the point that they forged a new selfhood born of solitude, inspired by the type of atavistic visual symbolism that Purist painting provided.
You're a purist about presentation, so you want to exclude the highlight domain.
Other than a few staunch golfing purists, most of us believe in the concept of taking a mulligan.
In the days prior to GPS-led apparati that were brought to market in the ancient, early '90s, astro-purists with an interest in locating various objects from within the observable astronomical inventory would have to understand basic algebra as a gateway to leverage a coordinate system (celestrial, equatorial, ecliptical, galactic, etc.). Cool Tools
Yes, I'm a purist and I don't believe in taking short cuts in music.
In essence, and oblivious to the purists, the economics simply don't stack up.
While I’m sure my version would horrify a purist, I’m hoping Kate Hill of the blog of the same name and French Kitchen Adventures would find it an acceptable variation, since it was her donation to Menu for Hope 4 a handmade cassole, or cassoulet pot, with beans and recipes and her passion for the food of southwest France that made me hunger for some kind of cassoulet. Archive 2007-12-01
If Joan was an abstract purist, other young artists were turning toward Bad Painting and cartoon art.
Architects with purist views were suspicious of his work.
I'm no purist, but I think if you're going to parody the greatest writer in the English language, your takeoff should at least be well written, and stay a lot closer to the form that inspired it.
Purists may bemoan the use of an actual producer and recording studio, and sure, the record is a tad sheeny.
Architects and critics with purist views were suspicious of Hill, but he helped to popularize the modern style.
No doubt, some purists will still jib at this usage.
Some recipes call for cheese and eggs, but purists would say it should only be made with potatoes and cream. The Sun
On six tunes, the wheeze of a button accordian added a dimension that bluegrass purists had never heard before; unfortunately, the band doesn't presently have an accordion player.
The awful prospect for purists is that Olympic year may become a pantomime duel between the two. Times, Sunday Times
Purists argue against roasting in a conventional oven because the closed space traps moisture, adversely affecting the roasting process.
Who but the dourest of indie-snob purists could fail to succumb to its heady delights?
In well-crafted chapters, Blake describes the interaction between primitivism and the fauvists, cubists, Dadaists, surrealists, and, lastly, purists.
After World War I, when Léger became friends with leaders of the Purist movement in Paris, his work exemplified the machine aesthetic.
The purists won't like it, but opera on TV certainly brings in the audiences.
He has an aficionado's love of jazz, yet his tastes are anything but purist. Times, Sunday Times
Rewilding may appeal to ideological purists but the reality is very different. Times, Sunday Times
Although purists may object to split infinitives, like 'to boldly go', the fact is, they are commonly used.
But there is also the other side - what we might call the purist side - the side that appreciates great clutch plays no matter how foolish it was to punt to DeSean Jackson, he still had to score that touchdown, amazing passes, brilliant pass-rushing schemes and all the rest. A weekend to remember
Purists will be happy to know the original mono track was remastered into two-channel Dolby Digital mono.
It's not that he doesn't deserve it; despite the reflexive dismissal of too-cool dance music purists, Moby is simply better at what he does than the hordes of hipsters working in the same vein.
What's provocative about Copeland's book is how he doesn't stick to just what's on the stage, as so many dance-critic purists do, but draws associations and contrasts with other art dynamics, such as demonstrating how Cunningham's light, flexible, transistorized movements answered the heavy clomp and primitivism of Jackson Pollock's action painting and the archetypal contortions of Martha Graham. Mind Expansion thru Sight and Sound: James Wolcott
Folk purists needn't be alarmed. Times, Sunday Times
For all its harshness, Ladakh's is a fragile environment, and purists might balk at the kind of meal my hosts cooked that night.
Rao has an inimitable style with the purist in him steadfastly refusing to dilute and encash.
The film is a difficult sell with too much action blockbuster for heady purists, too much intelligence for popcorn escapists.
Not because I'm a purist, mind you, but because it's beginning to seem really tired.
Purists may not approve of the changes made to the text of the play in this production.
Oysters are most often served in the shell on a bed of crushed ice - although some purists argue that this dulls their flavor - with thin slices of rye bread, salted butter, and lemon juice.
Cricket purists hate sledging.
The long and short is this: this is probably the best game-play design that I've seen in years; the game play is twitchy - if you're a purist you're going to have a conniption playing this.
These are two very different things, the purists say. Times, Sunday Times
‘Dilettante’ is not a word with a positive connotation in most circles, whereas ‘purist’ is, I think.
Purists will be happy to know the original mono track was remastered into two-channel Dolby Digital mono.
However, Asmita has come in for criticism from purists who feel traditional art forms must not be tampered with.
Although purists may object to split infinitives, like 'to boldly go', the fact is, they are commonly used.
Set with beautiful stonework on the outside, designed to ignite the aesthetic emotions of hip-seeking purists, the city is falling apart, but no one will ever know.
First, she overstates the case that the Purist aesthetic which emerged in the 1920s, enchanted with ‘the thing in itself’ and enamored of a certain visual literalism, dominates American photography.
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
The upshot is a Classic renewal that has purists drooling at the prospect. Times, Sunday Times
The purist view is that sport is about sport and any interest in a female competitor for any reason other than her sporting prowess is wrong. Times, Sunday Times
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.
As it is doubtful that the dimensionalisation was done by anybody working on the film and instead probably knocked out by a promotions or design company purists might want to just filter this down to clean 2D by looking at it through anaglyphic specs with one eye closed. Alice in Wonderland 3D Concept Art | /Film
Too often, dancehall DJs attempt to cross over by recycling, say, Juice Newton tunes instead of taking the more challenging, purist route.
Emily heard a sharp gasp, then the sound of shuffling feet, then several thuds and slaps as the purists complied with the request, their paws meeting the cabinets.
A purist approach to the language of the section, taken as a whole, tends to favour Mr Katkowski's approach.
Britain wanted a "more purist" approach.
Because the rear lobes of these hypercardioids tend to ‘cross’ the channels of the front stereophonic image, a ‘purist’ might prefer to use cardioids.
Hungary has numerous dance houses with live music - czardas being the main leg-shaking exercise - though some can be rather earnest and purist.
But the food industry would see her as scaremongering, or at least taking a too purist view of modern nutrition.
After all, theoretical purists reject the idea that we should lump different and incommensurable arguments into one broad sweep.
Do you change it frequently or are you a purist with just the plain default colour?
In the mid 1920s his work became more figurative in a manner recalling Léger and the Purists (he met Léger, Le Corbusier and Ozenfant when he revisited Paris in 1924), and his work met with considerable acclaim in France.
Folk purists tend to want their epics served straight, and sure enough, the Unthanks have drawn some unlove from England's traditional folk community. The Unthanks: A Twist On English Folk Music
There is also a manual mode for purist drivers. Times, Sunday Times
No matter what purists say, the original car was a brute. Times, Sunday Times
And so Max flagellated us with the purist's cudgel, but just as often, I suspect, he wielded it stringently at himself. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Remember, this is the President who's only really lost his temper publicly with people like them - he labeled their positions, which were both more pragmatic and popular than his own, as "purist" - and whose Administration once singled out "the institutional left" for its nastiest attacks. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
What I believe Clinton meant by the "conventional wisdom" is the kind of doctrinaire "purist liberalism" that allows for no pragmatic compromise or recognition that liberal reform must come incrementally. Lanny Davis: Liberals At War Again ... With Each Other
The monographs include studies of the Bismarck monument in Hamburg, the Gothic Wertheim department store in Berlin of 1904, and Le Corbusier's Purist paintings, interpreted almost as religious icons.
Lyne has the blessing of the ultimate Nabokov purist, the late novelist's son Dmitri, and the project seems to be a long-term labor of love: he became "entranced" by the novel 10 years ago. Waiting For Humbert
For some vérité purists, this might be taboo: the camera should act objectively and not interfere with the subject.
Apart from the stoic traditional perspective that purists hold, it is the fertile imagination of artistes that brings about a fresh outlook to a customary concept.
Only purists like Shafiq Miyan insist that nothing should adulterate the good old ishtoo - no spices or aromatics - just the meat on bones, onions, chillies and salt.
Although purists may object to split infinitives, like 'to boldly go', the fact is, they are commonly used.
I'm a purist and loathe the idea of fattened goose liver in my burger. Mark Strausman: Where's The Beef (From)?
Some purists insist that balmorals are not ‘berets’ but ‘civilians’ call a Scottish blue bonnet a beret.
And so Max flagellated us with the purist's cudgel, but just as often, I suspect, he wielded it stringently at himself. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The purist wants to see drivers race wheel to wheel. Times, Sunday Times
Some purists will insist that blackjack and poker are two entirely different games.
They have decided not to go with the "expand the party, include more people" but rather to run with the "purist" tack – this is why we are seeing the nonsense we are seeing, with the lies and the death panels, and the misinformation. WH set to release text of controversial Obama school speech
Maybe it's the fact that it's shredded into small pieces or that it's been soaked in the ceviche juices or that I rarely give this much thought to the taste of "krab," but I have to admit, it doesn't have that artificially sweet flavor, it's got a pretty good texture, and I'm not all that bothered by the substitution, though I'm sure some purists might disagree. Eater LA
Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
This should please purists and provide some continuity between the old and the new. Christianity Today
We can reproduce original instruments, authentic period acoustics, idiomatic playing styles, etc, but the rock on which the musical purists must all eventually founder is that it is impossible to reproduce original listeners.
Purists, however, can choose from 20 different kinds of fine sipping tequilas, and owner Ramon is ready to guide you through the finer points of appreciation.
When Bernadette Peters's character, Sally Plummer—a diminished, out-of-love housewife—arrived to the reunion in a bright-red dress, some "Follies" purists felt she looked too va-va-voom. 'Follies' Costume Drama
Perhaps I'm just a blinkered "purist," but I've always thought books were published to be read, not to be scrutinized for their marketing devices. Writing and Publishing
There are a lot of purists out there with blinders who have gotten stuck in the ‘this is the way I've always done it’ rut.
Pub purists might quibble with the cafe-bar furniture and the tinplate paintings of Thai landscapes, but, in all other respects, the Vine Thai fulfils its brief. Norwich's 10 best budget eats
A purist and a traditionalist, Gangubai has always believed in the classical tradition of music.
This kind of purist reform may lead to the marginalization of the GOP across america. RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says
The awful prospect for purists is that Olympic year may become a pantomime duel between the two. Times, Sunday Times
No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube. Score One for the Ghosts of History
It might be because purists realized they were a small group of Roman centurions and the barbarians were at the gates.
He's an unashamed Munro bagger, and if that pastime has come to be regarded by some purists as not really being what the noble art of climbing is all about, Holstead is having none of it.
The mere idea of having an internal out of bounds area on a links course is one that has golf purists tearing their hair out. The Sun
The purists won't like it, but opera on TV certainly brings in the audiences.
As in Ireland, there is a deep rift between nationalists who can accommodate to a kind of autonomy and those who hold to the purist separatist ideal.
And so Max flagellated us with the purist's cudgel, but just as often, I suspect, he wielded it stringently at himself. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Purists eat smoked salmon with nothing more than lemon and black pepper.
But his truculent behaviour and volatile temper is outraging purists.
A filet or swirl of crème anglaise is a nice addition (but don't tell my belle-mère, who is a cake purist!) Le gâteau chocolat - chocolate cake
The upshot is a Classic renewal that has purists drooling at the prospect. Times, Sunday Times
Though purists may lament the film's deviations from the comic book, the mood and most of the characters remain the same.
So when notoriously purist and discerning jazz critics single out a rising star to heap hyperbolic praise upon, gig after gig, it really is time to sit up and take notice.
Her poetry is quite good, she knows, if a bit too popular for literary purists.
But who cares what purists or musos think when there's a buck to be grossed?
How did every one react when you veered away from the purist classical tradition.
But that in itself is not the problem, although it may have the more purist fans of the novel grumbling.
During the first few weeks of June, electronica and experimental techno in the purist sense of the genre descends on Montreal.
If Joan was an abstract purist, other young artists were turning toward Bad Painting and cartoon art.
Guzman is more of a purist. "To me, nothing is more wonderful than the natural state of a Mexican avocado, " she said.
Safari purists may well be horrified at the incongruity of all this luxury plonked in the middle of one of the world's best game parks. Times, Sunday Times
This was the type of fight that boxing fans like and purists of the ignoble art turn their backs on.
The young pup railed against the ‘purist’ who apparently believe that profit is a dirty word and felt that making money somehow corrupted their ‘craft’.
It has incurred the displeasure of purists. Times, Sunday Times
The purists will argue that training lieutenants to command such complex platoons will be difficult.
Safari purists may well be horrified at the incongruity of all this luxury plonked in the middle of one of the world's best game parks. Times, Sunday Times
To be precise, Masson describes himself as "veganish," since he occasionally slips up when he's not at home and accidentally eats, say, a cookie prepared with milk; this vegan's not the sort of purist who would make a scene in public by spitting out an offending morsel. Salon
The statistics suggest that tomorrow's match should be one for the purist. Times, Sunday Times
The mere idea of having an internal out of bounds area on a links course is one that has golf purists tearing their hair out. The Sun
The new edition of the dictionary carries 7000 additions to the language, which purists say is under threat.
Traditional purists will bemoan these suggestions as a dilution of tradition.
A holy man of the Gods, Purist applies his holy spells to support and defensive spells.
Hailing, as he did, from Memphis, having grown up during the Purist tensions of the sixties and seventies, he was already sensitized to the rhetoric.
Although ultra-purists sing Bach's choral works one singer per part, Law does them with 140.
Hold on, purists will say, sponsoring news programmes fatally undermines their editorial integrity. Times, Sunday Times
During the English Renaissance, language purists and nationalists resisted the influx of pedantic and recondite inkhorn terms adapted from Greek and Latin such as condisciple, splendidious, and adnichilate. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
The awful prospect for purists is that Olympic year may become a pantomime duel between the two. Times, Sunday Times
Purists will tell you dhansak does not have pineapple, but many Indian restaurants do prepare it this way, too. Father's Day contest brims with memories, recipes
The upshot is a Classic renewal that has purists drooling at the prospect. Times, Sunday Times
Haven't ballet purists reacted negatively to the combination of classical form and popular content?
Even more interesting was the fact that I was called a purist! Red Virginia
While fado purists often maintain that you can only do fado with Portuguese guitar, Spanish guitar and bass, there's a long tradition of major stars like Amália Rodrigues and Carlos do Carmo flouting this convention with aplomb.
That gets the anarchist purist Libertarians confabulated. Barr: Obama and McCain the real spoilers
You may be a purist and prefer traditional products from European mills, but today it seems it's all about choice.
These accounts of Bach's two cantatas for solo contralto will probably upset the period-instrument purists - Craig Smith's conducting of a modern chamber orchestra owes little to recent notions of baroque practice.
Still, you can see why some folk purists continue to have their doubts. Times, Sunday Times
The founders of New Earth called themselves Purists.
His appeal to a wide section of the public naturally drew criticisms from the purists.
While ‘purists’ claimed that legitimate photography was a direct copy of physical reality, the pictorialists loaded their photographs with transcendent and cultural values.
Just stepping outside is enough to give an architectural purist the vapours.
Purists know that the rarest and finest of the three varieties of cocoa bean is the criollo – chocolate snobs lovingly describe its lingering aftertaste as featuring vanilla, caramel and nuts.
In the past, to the horror of soccer purists, broadcasters have cut away from live action for commercial breaks.
They are just two of the many comments that have made him a symbol of all that has gone wrong with the French language, purists say. Times, Sunday Times
Although purists may object to split infinitives, like 'to boldly go', the fact is, they are commonly used.
The purist collector will keep it unfired and in the lovely oak case with the Performance Center seal on the top.
The old snobberies of rock purists and classical elitists make less and less sense now.
Purists eat smoked salmon with nothing more than lemon and black pepper.
For horticultural purists, the news will be seen as further evidence that the noble art of gardening is being vulgarised and reduced to yet another manifestation of our modern obsession with lifestyle and consumerism.
However, the author is sore that he has been disowned by Marathi literary purists.
Cocktail purists would say a classic drink can't be improved, but it can be fun to go off-piste.
Their catalog is exceedingly effects-laden, perhaps too experimental for pop purists, but much too tuneful for diehard psychedelic torch-bearers.
‘L' Esprit Nouveau’ focuses on the work of Le Corbusier and Amedee Ozenfant, founders of the Purist movement, and their colleague Fernand Leger.
Purists may not approve of the changes made to the text of the play in this production.
No purist, he happily uses olive oil in a Thai-style curry paste, chops cress on to avocados and serves pomegranate, a winter fruit, at a summer party.
Parkour purists have a sadomasochistic belief in body conditioning. Times, Sunday Times
Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
I get called a purist all the time for seeking purity but I do make consessions where I know I must. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
If this sort of scheduling - off days in mid-series and two-game series - is the result of Interleague Play, then mark me down as a baseball purist.
Their one-joke puerility certainly won't please the purists, but once again, it's a perfect antidote to the sombre skies.
Naturalistic it isn't; Parker has introduced some fanciful set - pieces that have had purists chuntering like warhorses.
To most purists, putting a new beat behind Grandmaster Flash's verbals is tantamount to redrawing Manet's Olympia on MS Paint.
Except that the purists say it's not opera, but rather some commercial manipulation thereof.
Today, the 51-year-old drug developer works in Singapore, where he manages a horology enthusiasts' website on the side, called ThePuristSPro.com , which was started in 2006. A Collector's Pendulum
Purists eat smoked salmon with nothing more than lemon and black pepper.
It's only a little mark, but its misuse arouses more bad temper among purists than any other punctuation.
While some purists might insist a classic airplane needs to fly in front of a tailwheel or behind a round engine, we chose the simpler definition that it merely be at least 40 years old.
It certainly isn't the purist's simulated shooting gallery: The free-roaming levels play like a first-person shooter, with weaponry and cartoonish aim to match, so you're free to Rambo across the landscape, mowing down jackrabbits and wild turkeys with impunity — just don't get too close to the odd killer boar. Shoot to Thrill
It is a pro-life-purist lifestyle known as Quiverfull, where women forgo all birth-control options, viewing contraception as a form of abortion and considering even natural family planning an attempt to control a realm — fertility — that should be entrusted to divine providence. Extreme Motherhood
And very very low in fizz, which is fine with me but I suppose might bother some purists. Discourse.net: Beer Blogging: Expedition Stout
The new edition of the dictionary carries 7000 additions to the language, which purists say is under threat.
That, he acknowledges, will require a small rocket, like the attitude control jets on the shuttle, to move out of Earth orbit, perhaps frustrating to a purist.
There were occasional genuflections to the original, for the edification of purist snobs.
This does defeat the idea that any component can be available to anybody but it is only the technology purists that believe this to be practical.
But I'm the purist type who hates even the thought of leaving any detritus around and insists upon a clean install to a pure, unsullied partition.
Purists may object to the use of stainless steel in such a traditional classic design but I don't see it that way at all.
Purists will want to opt for the original black and white set, because as far as colorization has come, it still looks too pastel and unrealistic.
Grammarians and purists put far more stock in ‘logical’ usage than empirical evidence suggests is supported by actual utterances.
Purists were quick to counter-attack accusations that the legislation threatened individual liberty and encouraged prudish self-satisfaction.
Some of the sniffier purists will argue that it wasn't, strictly speaking, jazz at all. Times, Sunday Times
The awful prospect for purists is that Olympic year may become a pantomime duel between the two. Times, Sunday Times