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Перевод: puritanical
[прилагательное] пуританский
Тезаурус:
- An Oxfordshire carpenter's daughter "lived in fear" of a "very puritanical, very strict" grandmother who "bossed the village, and kept everybody in order."
- Adonis, cold and puritanical, rejects the lustful invitations of Venus, the supreme goddess, He goes off hunting, and as a punishment for his presumptuous chastity, is killed by a boar.
- This, I believe, is against the law, but it is a law that deserves to be broken, for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children - and therefore to some extent, women - from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be."
- East Germany's revolution also has an extremely puritanical and Protestant streak.
- This stance has now been inverted by a puritanical moralising clerisy which virtually polices conduct and enquiry in the name of a postmodern triptych - as Terry Eagleton has put it - of class and race and gender.
- The Glass Menagerie is partly autobiographical and describes the conflict between a son, Tom, who is drawn to the sensuality of D.H.Lawrence's writings and who himself scribbles poems on shoe-boxes in the warehouse where he works, and a repressive and puritanical mother, Amanda, who is as passionately possessive of her children as she is unwilling to let go of her own lost youth.
- "You look so puritanical today."
- The sterility of Wilson's final chapter with its severely reductionistic interpretation of human nature reveals the effects of a puritanical fundamentalism.
- So it is surprising to discover that the substance of Proofs was indeed a three-page essay in Granta - especially when one considers the puritanical intellectual rigour that characterises Steiner's literary style.
- The Canadian West was never that wild: the Mounties and a strong puritanical streak saw to that.
- They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple, "scrubbed" and "puritanical" than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects.
- "A frustrated and embittered woman", "melancholy" and "puritanical", she was an "austere and repressing influence:" "she had no affection for her grandchildren, but she was a conscientious woman."
- But the figures will still offend an instinctively puritanical government, and give ammunition to those who believe that the economic liberalism of the past decade is corrupting China's morals and weakening the family.
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