Word: puritanize
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...intensity and work ethic—and perhaps most importantly his devotion to his family—Lee seems almost puritan, though Lee by no means wears the black hat and austere look of America’s earliest settlers...
...women in London did at awkward young men from Massachusetts.” Later, they would fall out over Louisa’s desire to wear rouge in order to attenuate the “cadaverous” pallor of her complexion, which offended her husband’s puritan sensibilities. He insisted on wiping her face himself. She reflected in her memoir later, “All my beauty was clean washed away...
...basic criticism of reality TV - that it makes people famous for nothing rather than rewarding hard work - is a Puritan streak that is as old as Plymouth Rock: Seek thou not the Folly of Celebrity, but apply thyself with Humility to thy Industry! Well, that's one strain of American values. But there are other American ideas that reality TV taps into: That everybody should have a shot. That sometimes being real is better than being polite. That no matter where you started out, you can hit it big, get lucky and reinvent yourself. In her own way, Jwoww...
...this vein, many of Harvard’s early graduates went on to become clergymen in Puritan churches...
...over the course of the next century, Enlightenment ideals, which posed strong critiques against religion, found substantial intellectual support at Harvard, so much so that Puritan minister Cotton Mather, class of 1678, described the school as “godless Harvard...