0 the belief that it is important to work hard and control yourself, and that pleasure is wrong or unnecessary --
Instead, at that time they substituted the smug, sanctimonious noises about lame ducks, and, in a frenzy of capitalist puritanism, cancelled anything to do with a subsidised service.
It is full of new puritanism, but it must know that its sins will catch it out.
That form of puritanism is absurd and bizarre in the current mores of our country.
They are also not viewed as a race given to puritanism.
I also wanted this regulation to remain flexible enough to limit certain constraints of conversion or excesses of organic puritanism.
Those conditions represent a kind of materialistic puritanism where there is a tremendous determination to get on.
To say this is not idealism, or puritanism; it is plain common sense for the nation.
But no one in his right mind could have expected the zealotry—indeed the new puritanism—with which those regulations are being enacted.
