Word: purist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sitting plumply in a steamed poppy-seed bun. The hot dog is not really kosher, but is all-beef with just a hint of garlic--all enclosed in a natural casing. It should come from the Vienna Beef Company of Chicago, if you are a hot dog purist...
...hockey purist, you'll be in high heaven. You'll see cross-ice passing, speed, good defense and clean body checks...
...editor-in-chief since 1979, Grunwald brought that same spirit of * disciplined creativity to our six magazines. Always in search of new trends, new perspectives and new ideas, he remained a prose purist who would settle for nothing less than the best-written and best-designed magazine possible...
Call me a purist or a prude, but it's nice to see a baseball book about hard work, dedication and, most of all, baseball...
...widest emotional range of all the characters, evoking bloodlust, paranoia, self-pity, and a doomed dignity. Vilmure ably displays this range, but he too falls prey to the disease that strikes most of the players: in moments of high drama, he affects a British accent. My friend the purist suggests that such affectation is intended to simulate the changes in intonation that Greek actors would have made at appropriate moments, but my guess is that Aias thinks it is on Masterpiece Theater...