But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways. Votes: 3
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be. Votes: 3
American society is still puritanical. Votes: 1
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. Votes: 1
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. Votes: 1
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. Votes: 1
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature. Votes: 1
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. Votes: 1
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction. Votes: 1
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. Votes: 1
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. Votes: 1
We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling. Votes: 1
Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free. Votes: 1
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. Votes: 1
I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. Votes: 1
The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp. Votes: 1
It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long. Votes: 1
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical Votes: 0
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. Votes: 0
People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. Votes: 0
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. Votes: 0
There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world. Votes: 0
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex. Votes: 0
Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it. Votes: 0
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality. Votes: 0
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh. Votes: 0
We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it. Votes: 0
Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism. Votes: 0
February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.
Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.
You can support trans-positive legislation, tranny artists, and the inclusion of trannies in your neighborhood, schools, place of worship, whatever. For the long term? Join or initiate some good legal battles against the puritanical laws that exist around sex and gender.