Her doctoral thesis was on Puritan spiritual autobiography; given that she was a Puritan scholar turned Communist, her instincts for discipline and asceticism were deeply grounded.
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The Puritan work ethic is alive and flourishing in 2017.
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Her mother, Margaret, had ties stretching back to Puritan days.
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Imagine what it was like to be a Puritan in 1642.
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The verdict was in: Tituba had composed the perfect Puritan confession.
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Before the revolution, Quakers in Puritan Massachusetts were whipped and hanged.
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Many of the accused didn't fit squarely into the Puritan ideal.
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My inner Puritan does not reward thyself with enough of these.
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Trump's amorality play contradicts our paeans to the Puritan work ethic.
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Even then, the songwriter chose to reference the founders' Puritan roots.
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And while we're not living in a Puritan society — or are we?
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Three wives, five children—by American puritan standards, it's an unusual family.
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It runs against a puritan streak that goes deep in American mythology.
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Given our Puritan, body-image focused society, it's easy to deduce why.
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There's no nonsense — an almost puritan restraint — and no scintilla of humor.
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He'll end the primary with a party at the Puritan Backroom in Manchester.
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" "I chose this because it's new puritan, which is a kind of simplicity.
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Watch our video 'Director Robert Eggers Discusses His Puritan Horror Film, 'The Witch''
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Robinson's answer might be that the problem is neither place is Puritan enough.
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Yet Andrew argues that Silicon Valley might come to regret such puritan stances.
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Experiencing the plurality within the Islamic tradition would vitiate the puritan call-to-arms.
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That's alright—instead, watch director Robert Eggers discuss his puritan horror film, The Witch.
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So Puritan villagers saw this as a sign of the devil's progress in destroying Christianity.
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The Wahhabi establishment has evolved from a puritan reform movement into a bloated state bureaucracy.
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"A Column of Fire" ends with the promise of a Puritan voyage on the Mayflower.
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The religious conservatism that was then sweeping America harked back to the country's Puritan history.
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Gone is the white-gowned Puritan nun, and that infantilized charmer, the Belle of Amherst.
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Virtuous but not Puritan, simple but never dull, this is a very strong, fast dinner.
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Gone is the white-gowned Puritan nun, and the Belle of Amherst, that infantilized charmer.
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Clothed, his eroticism is transmuted through our Puritan ethic — but it's there in the music.
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There's something narrow about his world view, very puritan, that makes me not warm to him.
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There are two reasons to which I can attribute Ducati's near-puritan (by porn standards) lifestyle.
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" Another source was a Puritan devotional guide written by Lewis Bayly called "The Practice of Piety.
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Or she includes a text she wrote in 1947 in a book from 1990 — the puritan.
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This was Puritan New England, where there was no way that they could talk about this.
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Reinhold Niebuhr applied Puritan thinking to America's mission and warned of the taint of national pride.
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The Puritan appetite needs regular sating; every generation, you could say, must have its Hester Prynne.
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The Witch artfully poses a conflict between stringent Puritan faith and witchcraft in colonial New England.
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But Puritan objections to homosexuality were not entirely rooted in what we would call gender normativity.
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Settled in the white, Puritan society of Salem Village, Tituba's multicultural upbringing alone would have raised suspicions.
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Which is sort of old-style, 1950s-beauty-contest stuff, rather than religious-right-fundamentalist-puritan stuff.
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It was religious fanaticism that burned heretics and stripped altars and briefly raised up a Puritan theocracy.
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"I believe that political correctness has a puritan root," the Redis developer, who goes by Antirez, wrote.
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But as Giorgio, a retired Puritan colonel and Elvira's beloved uncle, he gave a curiously muted performance.
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"The devil has been with them already," the Puritan minister Cotton Mather wrote of babies in 1689.
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Many of the prayers are intact from Puritan prayer manuals, which had suggested prayers for certain situations.
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Part of the fun of Grant's book is that he redeems behaviors we typically regard with puritan disdain.
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As more terrible things happen, the eye of suspicion for this Puritan family begins to fall on her.
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Most importantly, Tituba drew upon the Puritan belief that if you confessed and repented, you could be saved.
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In her book, Schiff makes 17th-century Puritan New England come alive — what a dark and fearful place!
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By night, she works as a hostess at the restaurant Puritan & Company, across the Charles River in Cambridge.
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Also, he's just more fun to watch onscreen than Steve Rogers, with his scoldy pure-and-Puritan vibe.
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Set in the 17th century New England, "The Witch" tells the story of a Puritan family encountering evil.
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"It's powerfully naïve to think it means nothing" to allow the Puritan tiger beetles to disappear, he said.
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Restoring the Puritan tiger beetle's population had been a fantasy of his since he was an undergraduate student.
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But there are hints — a journey across an ocean, Puritan beliefs — to set us in colonial New England.
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And this Puritan notion that there are individual life projects and it's your highest calling to pursue them.
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It has to be as if I lived in the 17th century, and this is my Puritan childhood.
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She was in this puritan, all-white society, and already demonized inherently because she was a black woman.
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While some names are obvious, others are delightfully poetic and evocative,like Luminary Green, Puritan Gray, and Lavender Fog.
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She gets involved with Wallace Wooley (Fredric March), a descendent of the Puritan who denounced her in colonial Salem.
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"The Witch" (A24), a period horror film about a Puritan family and a demonic goat, took in $8.7 million.
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The city of Boston, Massachusetts, founded by Puritan settlers in 1630, is one that's steeped in rich American history.
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Read more: Prince Andrew defended his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and called objections to it 'puritan,' 2011 report says
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Hiking in Aspen in the throes of remorse over his failed marriage, he pauses to read a Puritan prayer.
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Not all of this was legal, but, as Warren points out, it was hardly at odds with Puritan piety.
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Judith (Kathryn Wilder), one of his daughters, is a shrew; the other, Susanna (Lydia Wilson), has married a Puritan bore.
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Infidelity by public figures is seen as normal, and disapproval as a puritan obsession of uptight Americans or northern Europeans.
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This wasn't unusual—Puritan women in both America and England had done it before—but Hutchinson's group grew incredibly popular.
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It's hard not to view the belated "this doesn't fit the product category" excuse as anything beyond puritan ass-covering.
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Trump's vilification of Hillary Clinton, Atwood believes, is more explicable when seen through the lens of the Puritan witch-hunts.
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It is easy to assume that the fierce Puritan flock of yore had somehow gestated the fiery patriots of 1776.
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The puritan in me, while realizing how the system is rigged, still paid her taxes and got regular teeth cleanings.
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Then there's the whole Puritan vanity thing, where we're just supposed to wear gray rags until the day we die.
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Ms. Atwood's book is set in the Republic of Gilead — a future version of Massachusetts, evocative for its Puritan roots.
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It takes two to three years for an egg to mature into an adult Puritan tiger beetle capable of reproduction.
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"A" is also a riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," that great 1850 novel about Puritan guilt and repression.
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Ours has become an age of Puritan hysteria in which we suppress speech in the name of stamping out hate.
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But if David is our latest Last Puritan, he is by that very token the most uncertain of them all.
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Fleeing what they considered tyranny, Puritan settlers adapted the Exodus narrative to justify their so-called errand into the wilderness.
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I don't think any of us had high hopes — she's a wonderful actress, but she always projected a Puritan vision.
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The film centers on Thomasin (Ana Taylor-Joy), the eldest daughter in a 17th-century Puritan family ostracized by their community.
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Kathryn Hahn stars in this story of sexual rediscovery on HBO, and Robert Eggers's Puritan nightmare is available to stream. MRS.
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I would call it an ignorant denial based on the residual, puritan, collective agreement that abuse is uncomfortable to talk about.
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Atwood told The Guardian that during the research process for the book, she looked at puritan values and 17th century America.
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But no one knew the optimal way to raise a Puritan tiger beetle — what kind of climate, prey or sand type.
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She is not a puritan: she does not demand the end to modern medicine, but rather, the end to normative care.
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Sleeper, who is Jewish, was raised in the Massachusetts town of Longmeadow, still populated by descendants of its original Puritan settlers.
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The earliest Puritan settlers saw in the awe-inspiring bounty of the American wilderness the prospect of both apocalypse and paradise.
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"Part of the reason that I am who I am is my Puritan roots run deep," he told the AP in 2011.
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However, the country's Puritan tendencies have kept the industry's growth in check, and spending per person has remained static for a decade.
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But only a Puritan would think it made light of the heroin and HIV epidemic that swept through Edinburgh in the 1980s.
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Some 200 years later, across the Atlantic, a Puritan minister decried the "lewd gaming" and "rude revelling" of Christmastime in the colonies.
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Its rigidity and stoicism, likely caused by the daguerreotype process — no one can smile forever — has perpetuated her image as Puritan recluse.
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It's about how the Puritan imagination was fired up by faith, and then roasted to a crisp by terror of the devil.
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Kathy Bates, dressed in Puritan garb and apparently totally fine after being hit by Shelby's car, is condemning a man to die.
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That in turn comes from the Puritan idea that not working is somehow wicked, or that "idle hands knit the devil's jumper".
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Pamela Lauren Chaliff and Alexander Smithberg Margolis were married March 7 at the Foundry at Puritan Mill, an events space in Atlanta.
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In giant tanks that once housed fish, he installed tubs of Puritan tiger beetles and enough insects to keep them well fed.
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Bercovitch's work examined the sway Puritan sermons held over American culture and politics, a theme that Buttigieg echoed in his senior thesis.
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THE ISLAND THAT DISAPPEARED The Lost History of the Mayflower's Sister Ship and Its Rival Puritan Colony By Tom Feiling 402 pp.
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Rating A small family, banished from their Puritan community in 1600s America, heads out into the wilderness to begin a new life.
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" The tense exchange inside the Puritan Backroom diner ended with Mr. Rubio walking away and the displeased voter calling him a "typical politician.
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In it, a family of God-fearing Puritan settlers wrestles with their faith as rumors of witchcraft swirl around the eldest daughter, Thomasin.
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So while the Democrats might think their Puritan takeover is good politics today, it will come back and bite them in the end.
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This has to be my memory of childhood when I was a Puritan, the way my dad smelled in the cornfield that day.
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The text reflects the common Puritan belief that dancing is a sinful and promiscuous activity, one that increases the temptation to commit adultery.
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It's an altered version of these concepts that filtered into the American dream, a hangover from the puritan ideals the pilgrims brought over.
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In Arise From The Gallows, modern-day witches, along with Goyette, playfully enact the stereotypes of the hysterical woman, entrapping unwitting puritan men.
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John Winthrop and his Puritan buddies knew how superior they were to everybody else when they built their shining city on the hill.
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The murderer, Salman Abedi, was a puritan, or a Salafi Muslim, who believed they were all disbelievers and sinners who should be killed.
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Set in New England in 1630, The Witch (often stylized The VVITCH) follows a pilgrim family who've been banished from a Puritan plantation.
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We're in New York, and we have these New York audiences, but many parts of the country are still Puritan in a way.
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During the Protestant Reformation, Puritan iconoclasts pulverized nearly every church painting in England, making the above medieval depiction of Judas a true rarity.
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And though Gilead, Iowa, is the setting for novels that are fundamentally about grace, it's not really Puritan enough either, by Robinson's definition.
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He is not really depressed or inhibited by his inherited or environmentally conceived Puritan restraints: he simply has no goal within the sexual situation.
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This affirmed a common Puritan narrative: that the devil wanted to infiltrate their community to destroy Christianity — and that witches were the devil's instruments.
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The film begins with patriarch William (Ralph Ineson), who looks like the world's most depressed pirate, banished from the Puritan colony for heretical stubbornness.
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Robinson's great hero, the Puritan preacher and philosopher Jonathan Edwards, said we should never permit a thought that we wouldn't indulge on our deathbeds.
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A 2018 article in The Atlantic hypothesized that the United States was a nation of bidet-haters because of its Puritan, sex-negative streak.
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In 279, Winthrop also presided over the trial and conviction of the first American woman to be hanged for witchcraft, Margaret Jones, a Puritan midwife.
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Mattie Burkert, the project's leader, says the data are patchy from 2000, when theatres reopened after a Puritan ban, to 25, when daily newspapers began.
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Are you an advocate of Puritan-style minimalism in your cooking, or do you love a bedazzled, over-the-top, Vegas-style explosion of flavor?
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His protagonists, a religious family who leave their Puritan village over dogma differences and settle in the wilderness, run afoul of witches in the woods.
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We've caught quick glimpses of her in the previous two episodes, hanging out at Kathy Bates' — now known as The Butcher — big Puritan bonfire parties.
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" She points out that Americans have been puritanical eaters since the literal Puritan era, and we still tend to associate any pleasurable experience as "sinful.
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In her second film, "Ghost Bitch: Arise from the Gallows," Goyette expands her portrait of modern witchery with a few scenes of Puritan dress-up.
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A quick history lesson: Between 1692 and 1693, 150 people (mostly women) were accused of witchcraft, which was a huge deal in Puritan New England.
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Whereas most One Great Idea books tend to present gloomy, Puritan-like sermons about how far we have fallen, this one shook up such pessimism.
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Gadsby, in her work, espouses a kind of puritan-minded radicalism in which someone else is always to blame for how messed up she feels.
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She recalls the students' teacher was taken aback by the complexity with which the Cry Innocent cast wanted to approach the 17th-century Puritan mindset.
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These early European settlers in the New World, he says, also adopted "Hebraic communal discipline," as ballast to the relentless Puritan focus on individual salvation.
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Mr. Xi has also ordered party members and officials to return to an almost puritan faith in Marxism and Mao, even amid China's flashy wealth.
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However, the gambit of derailing a woman's political speech into a conversation about her body is as popular now as it was in Puritan times.
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But Tituba, knowing her identity already made her a guilty suspect, instead gave the superstitious pilgrims a masterfully believable confession tailored to resonate with Puritan doctrine.
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It's closer to what you'd get if a Puritan had decided to make a movie to keep other Puritans scared straight and on the righteous path.
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A visceral film that builds layers of fear and tension (rather than relying on cheap shock tactics), it evokes the Puritan nightmare of witchcraft and damnation.
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Williams is also credited as the first person to use the phrase "wall of separation," in a 1644 response to the theocratic Puritan clergyman John Cotton.
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The actress, 19, became a Sundance sensation in 2015 with her breakout role in The Witch, playing the eldest daughter in a Puritan family threatened by witchcraft.
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Yet the principal complaint about Mr Modi is not that he is a domineering Hindu puritan but that he has failed to do much for economic development.
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Sales of spirits have been robust in recent years, even as consumption of wine and beer has fallen in many countries, but millennial shoppers sound increasingly puritan.
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America continued in the Puritan way, the egalitarian dream of Merrymount cast aside, the "merriment after the old English custom" (Morton's words) feared as the devil's indulgence.
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Set in the stark brutality of the early American landscape, our Puritan protagonists in this disturbing period piece are rigidly pious and obsessed with misery and shame.
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The film follows a family of Puritan dissenters who retreat to the Massachusetts wilds to be closer to God, and wind up closer to something much darker.
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If you hate fish oil capsules, Puritan Pride's flaxseed oil can provide all the Omega 3 you need, and add zest to your salad dressings, as well.
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If we want better policies, we need to understand why this approach cannot possibly succeed, as well as its roots in a Puritan strain of Western culture.
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I like to imagine them going feral with the first Puritan who ever threw an apple core over his shoulder, but then there was also Johnny Appleseed.
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The state Department of Health and Human Services said the people who became sick had attended an event at Manchester's Puritan Backroom conference center on Nov. 24.
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But he also said that France is "not a Puritan society" and cautioned against labeling every interaction between men and women as suspect, The Associated Press reported.
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And as Riccardo, a Puritan colonel who had been promised Elvira's hand, the virile baritone Alexey Markov sang with dark-hued richness, yet came across as bland.
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Despite being steeped in Arthur Miller's grim, hysterical Puritan world, Mr. Whishaw recently tumbled into an East Village seafood restaurant merry and full of praise for New York.
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As the emotionally unstable Elvira, a young Puritan woman in 17th-century England, Ms. Damrau sang with gleaming sound, volatile intensity and fearless execution of florid coloratura runs.
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Likewise, Eggers' first feature, The Witch, about a Puritan family dealing with supernatural forces lurking in the woods behind their New England farm, certainly fell into that category.
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Within the first 10 minutes, the infant son of an isolated 23th-century Puritan family goes missing, snatched away and taken into the woods by the menacing title character.
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People have long flocked to Salem to learn about the infamous witch trials of 1692, in which Puritan hysteria led to the executions of 20 people (and two dogs).
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In "The Scarlet Letter," which is set in Puritan Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, the proud and beautiful Hester Prynne has a child whose father she refuses to name.
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In my 20s, I've been able to expand upon my puritan views of the whole thing and develop an appreciation for all the fringe elements grunge was rebelling against.
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He grew up to become a student of what he calls the "Puritan-Hebrew synthesis"—a fertile brand of theological inquiry that helped launch the American civic-republican tradition.
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She imagined what she called "the heavy-handed theocracy of 17th-century Puritan New England — with its marked bias against women" — reasserting itself during a period of social chaos.
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"It had to be as if I lived in the 17th century, and this is my Puritan childhood" That was really illuminating, and I also really respected their rigor.
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In response to the social network's seemingly puritan attitude toward nudity, artists even organized Facebook Nudity Day in 2016, encouraging users to post images of nude art en masse.
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Anyway, I agree with what you said about how Gilead's Puritan values aren't quite in step with what's unfolding in the Trump administration now, even if it includes some Pences.
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But Jennings's focus remains, happily, on the faintly madcap lesser-knowns who persuaded thousands of disciples to join them on an "errand into the wilderness," to borrow a Puritan expression.
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Here is a picture of Puritan New England far different from the "city upon a hill" that John Winthrop hoped he and the other first settlers would leave for posterity.
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When the Puritan colonists sailed over the Atlantic led by John Winthrop in the 1630s, they re-named the city Boston, after the city of the same name in England.
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There is a deeply insulting irony in this: American women are being stripped of their sexual and reproductive autonomy not by a moralizing puritan but by an erotically incontinent libertine.
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This is what sets her apart from her contemporaries, many of whom look positively puritan in their sense of duty toward perpetuating their style, brand, or meaningful content or commentary.
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And that idea of America as a chosen place goes back to John Winthrop, the Puritan who looked before him and called this place the Golden City on the Hill.
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In the United States, "blue laws," so called due to the blue paper on which Puritan leaders printed the Sunday trade restrictions, date back to the 18th century at least.
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The film follows the story of an intensely religious Puritan family with a couple of rather large crosses to bear, from dying crops to the mysterious disappearance of their newborn baby.
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We are no longer living out the legacy of Weber's edifying tale of Puritan spiritual entrepreneurship, harnessing the ascetic labors of the Old World to conquer a fledgling colonial-mercantile economy.
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To be fair, it's true that most of the victims killed in Salem were white women, often because they didn't fit the strict social norms for what Puritan women should be.
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"My sense is that relating and evaluating a literary text in relation to its truthfulness has to have some kind of religious and moral, probably Protestant, possibly Puritan, roots," he says.
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And Crista de Luzio notes that in the 17th century, youth was experienced as a "relatively smooth" period in New England Puritan culture in contrast to Europe in the same era.
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" On Friday, officials announced that one of the men had "apparently fell from the dam below from the old Puritan rope mill and the second young man attempted to rescue him.
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Another directorial debut (seriously), Robert Eggers' film is a period horror featuring a Puritan family in New England, and its minimalist mood and sinister story arc will give you familiar chills.
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Ramin Arani, a co-portfolio manager of the $25 billion Fidelity Puritan fund, said that he sees gold as an attractive "insurance" for his equity exposure given the rising political risks.
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The final slide shows a graffiti image of two skeletons making love, rendered in white paint on a black door, a severe send-off that a 17th-century Puritan would endorse.
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"Puritan religious faith did not displace class hierarchy, either; the early generations of New Englanders did nothing to diminish, let alone condemn, the routine reliance on servants or slaves," she observes.
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The curse grew out of the despair of foremother Maria Owens, exiled to an island from Puritan-era Massachusetts after her magic thwarted the townspeople's attempt to hang her for witchcraft.
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The nestled larvae represent the last chance for one of New England's most endangered species, the Puritan tiger beetle — an insect tiny enough to fit on the pad of a thumb.
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His first film, "The Witch" (2015), was set in Puritan colonial times and depicted a devout family of Plymouth Rock separatists who come to believe themselves cursed by a malevolent spirit.
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The Common has long been a central gathering place for civic activity — events like public hangings for witchcraft in Puritan days and, in January, the women's march that drew 175,000 people.
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He is a Native American and the "godson" of one of the Puritan founders of New Haven Colony, and he's a dime-novel staple, the "savage" who rapes a white woman.
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If Chris Paul, deeply and truly, believes in living a life where Nut Punching is acceptable, nay, central, to his Basketball Morals, then I will not stand here in puritan judgement.
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But American believers have come an awfully long way from their formative Puritan roots, and the Protestant ethic only goes so far in explaining the strange new frontiers they've traversed and settled.
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With a carefully crafted testimony that aligned with Puritan perceptions of gender, race, and religion, Tituba managed to stave off her oppressors, deflect suspicion onto the wider community, and protect her life.
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Henry James, writing, in 1879, about Nathaniel Hawthorne, spelled out some of the possibilities available to an American overshadowed by the "darkening cloud" of original sin that came with the Puritan heritage.
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The all-black house located at 33 Tarragon Drive is a near perfect replica of the Salem home of Puritan Jonathan Corwin, a central figure in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
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There's a lot to say about gialli, especially in terms of how their sensibility relates to our own peculiarly baroque moment (excessive in its own consumer-capitalist way, but arguably more puritan).
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Since the first settlers arrived America has conceived of itself as unique in its moral purity and possibility, as the "City on a Hill" in the Puritan leader John Winthrop's grand vision.
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For instance, at least one survey of university students that looked at work ethic and views on sexual norms found that traditional Puritan values about work and sex still influence Americans today.
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The puritan Christian happenings that suffocated a lot of different cultures—like hundreds of years ago—are just starting to let up, and so we're just starting to get our voices back.
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Prince Andrew once defended his controversial friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, telling a friend who warned him against it that they were being "such a puritan," a 2011 report from Vanity Fair claimed.
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In Robert Eggers's magnificent horror, William (Ralph Ineson) and his family build a farm on the edge of an isolated forest after being exiled from a Puritan plantation in 1630s New England.
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In the boho Puritan lines of Pierpaolo Piccioli's Valentino and the slouchy tailoring of Stella McCartney, the elegant rock-star suiting of Haider Ackermann and the wind-swept Victorian romance of Erdem.
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Further, the movies' morality was grounded in the idea that people in power are corrupt, morality is relative, and the shrewdest character wins, rather than some puritan idea of right and wrong.
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That law has gone long unenforced when the play begins, so the enigmatic Duke of Vienna (Scott Shepherd) decides to step aside and put the merciless puritan Angelo (Pete Simpson) in charge.
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Charlie Bevis, writing in a 2005 issue of "A Journal of Baseball History and Culture," found that where Puritan influences were particularly strong, along the East Coast, Sunday laws were rigorously enforced.
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"Shinobu Tsukasa, the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi, is a puritan in the sense that he doesn't approve of making money by engaging in selling drugs or swindling old people," Adelstein said.
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All that is left of this area's bad early modern-period reputation -- when it lay just outside the city limits, just beyond the moral policing of puritan city fathers -- is the party spirit.
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His tour guides — Puritan preacher Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, nominal abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. DuBois, and modern activist Angela Davis — all represent evolving ways of alternately perpetuating, assuaging, or resisting racist ideas.
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Last month, the school said it would remove a "problematic" doorway carving that shows a Puritan settler aiming a musket at a Native American, after drawing criticism for simply covering up the gun.
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Atwood's dystopian vision of a United States buckling under fundamentalist, Puritan-adjacent rule is a stark and bitter warning, one that's been called eerily relevant since it was published more than 30 years ago.
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But it all serves as a backdrop to a tremendously tense thriller about an exiled Puritan family trapped in the wilderness with a malevolent witch — or possibly, just with their own suspicions and judgments.
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These evangelicals, like former President Jimmy Carter, are spiritual descendants of Roger Williams, who was banished from the Puritan theocracy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded the first Baptist congregation in colonial America.
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If, as Sarah Vowell writes, "threatening to take away a Puritan magistrate's right to punish [was] like yanking the trumpet out of Louis Armstrong's hands," the most expressive Massachusetts Bay punishments were often corporal.
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In "The Judge Hunter," the only clear targets of his satire are the Puritan saints who populated New Haven, and readers are left to decide how much of it rubs off on contemporary Puritans.
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By the time that the last state-established church was dissolved in 1820 — in the great Puritan mother colony of Massachusetts — American believers had decisively overthrown the glum spiritual dictates of the old Calvinist order.
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He skipped a number of traditional events, like Politics and Eggs with the state's business leaders and ribbing it up with voters at the Puritan Backroom, where presidential candidates have visited since the 1960's.
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In slightly different forms, that image from Saint Matthew's Gospel was used by John Winthrop, the Puritan preacher who sailed from England to America in the 17th century, and then taken up by Ronald Reagan.
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This story of an isolated Puritan family that comes unraveled in the wilderness is unsettling and scary, and certain images (including what would ordinarily be a perfectly innocuous rabbit) take on a damply sinister weight.
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In our post-Puritan, post–Cold War mindset, it can be easy to think that the age of the moral panic is behind us, but the past few decades have provided plenty of fresh examples.
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I still agree that sex is far less egregious than violence and that visions of both help define the lines of our personalities and ensure we do not wander too far into some puritan desert.
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"New England Bound" conveys the disorientation, the deprivation, the vulnerability, the occasional hunger and the profound isolation that defined the life of most African exiles in Puritan New England, where there was no plantation community.
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According to a 2011 Vanity Fair article, Andrew even told a friend who objected against his friendship with Epstein that they were "such a puritan" and that he was "going to be loyal to him."
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Its Puritan roots surely played a part, he said, and as far back as 1750, theater was "Banned in Boston" by the Massachusetts General Court ("An Act for preventing Stage-Plays, and other Theatrical Entertainments").
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By juxtaposition, the dark era of Prohibition is thought of as a fall from Olympus, when a desiccated nation drained what bitter impostor alcohol was to be had in dens tucked away from Puritan eyes.
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"At the end of the day, this election is about who we are and what we can accomplish together," Mr. Pappas said in a victory speech at his family's restaurant, the Puritan Backroom, in Manchester.
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Now he's tackling a Puritan: he stars as John Proctor in a Broadway revival of "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's McCarthy-minded drama about the Salem witch trials, directed by the Belgian experimentalist Ivo van Hove.
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When Lord Grosvenor raised a cup carved from Shakespeare's mulberry tree, treating the "blest relic" as if it were a chalice filled with Communion wine, the eyebrows of the more puritan present were raised high.
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Robert Eggers's feature-length debut is a phantasmagoria that draws from historical records of New England's Puritan era, including the writings of clergymen Samuel Willard and Cotton Mather, as well as longstanding folklore about the supernatural.
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Constance: Atwood's argument is that in a time of crisis, America would revert back to its Puritan roots, and that the Enlightenment structures of the Constitution and our current government would be dismissed as historical aberrations.
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As he walked into Puritan Backroom Restaurant, Rubio passed by two activists with the liberal group American Bridge wearing cardboard boxes, dressed as "Marco Roboto" and "Rubio Talking Point 3000," a slam on Rubio's debate performance.
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Ms. Brown's manner was one of vehement Puritan rigor, while Cunningham had the freedom and individuality of an animal (sometimes caged, sometimes free); Ms. Knouse's is one of wide-eyed innocence, Mr. Olk's a severe devotion.
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One day, a short sandy drive from his hero librarian's home, a "butterscotch-and-peach painted concrete mosque" appeared to Mr Hammer: an outpost of the puritan, Saudi-funded Wahhabi ideologues taking root across the Sahel.
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Lyricism slips in and out of favor in American writing; the "plain style" of our Puritan past—with its insistence that quick comprehensibility is a pathway to democracy, and to the divine—is always with us.
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The French have a longstanding belief that their approach to sexuality is different from that of Americans, which they view as rigid and puritan in its effort to draw hard lines between approved and disapproved behavior.
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He speculates about the devil "howling in the wind" (there's a menacing-looking statue of Satan himself), reports Puritan superstitions about witches' bacchanals, and captures each gory execution of the accused with thoroughly macabre sound effects.
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It is a common misconception that the Dutch of that era wore black out of puritan self-restraint — as the Rijksmuseum's curator of costume, Bianca du Mortier, explained, that could not be further from the truth.
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Kenneth Silverman, whose "The Life and Times of Cotton Mather," a deeply researched, lively biography of the great Puritan preacher, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 21997, died on Friday in Manhattan.
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When Margaret Atwood was in her twenties, an aunt shared with her a family legend about a possible seventeenth-century forebear: Mary Webster, whose neighbors, in the Puritan town of Hadley, Massachusetts, had accused her of witchcraft.
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Eggers talks about his process writing and casting a film set in 16th century New England, the feminine darkness and empowerment of witch folklore, and combining unnerving family trauma with supernatural influences to create a "puritan nightmare."
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Americans tend to value abstinence above all else, an all-or-nothing approach that British advocates see as rooted in the United States' Puritan culture, said Deborah Arnott, the chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health.
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Decades later, he continued to tell interviewers that he had grown up "with a lot of repression," and he often noted that his father was a descendant of William Bradford, the Puritan governor of the Plymouth Colony.
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Stacy C. Hollander, curator of Securing the Shadow, writes in the accompanying catalogue that Puritan ideas of the body as "merely a vessel that was emptied of meaning once life had fled" dominated in the 18th century.
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Soave's article tapped into a core article of belief among conservatives, including some who don't support Trump: that "social justice warriors" — left-wing activists who focus on identity causes — are a new Puritan movement always hunting for witches.
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SCHUNCK* is simultaneously presenting "Punk+Dans+Kunst: Angry movements," an exhibition that takes as its starting point the 1986 punk ballet film "Hail the New Puritan," a fictionalized documentary about Scottish dancer Michael Clark, directed by Charles Atlas.
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The object dates to at least 18413, and this mace was likely made for Charles II, the 17th-century king restored to the throne after the Puritan Commonwealth, an era in which Britain was ruled without a king.
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Atwood, 77, calls it one of her "speculative fiction" novels but said every scenario was drawn from real events - from Puritan society to environmental pollution, infertility, the fight for women's rights, the Cold War, book burnings and slavery.
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In the book, the Constitution and Congress are no longer: The Republic of Gilead is built on a foundation of the 17th-century Puritan roots that have always lain beneath the modern-day America we thought we knew.
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He references the ideal of the "city on a hill," an image from Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, used by Puritan settler John Winthrop to describe how the new American colonies would serve as a model for Christian living.
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When it comes to depicting the realities of death, at least from the perspective of a hot dog and condiments, Sausage Party is as vividly, even slatheringly detailed as a Puritan tract ticking off the eternal pains of hell.
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After a stoic Puritan farmer (Ralph Ineson) and his devout family of six is exiled from their township, they settle in the bleak gray wilds of Massachusetts, where it's all downhill after the failing of their first corn crop.
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For decades now, popular histories have concocted false stories that the majority of the public had never supported prohibition, or that prohibition was conceived by a "radical fringe" of Bible-thumping, rural evangelicals trying to codify their Puritan morality.
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Salafist Islam, the puritan literalist interpretation of the faith that is the basis for Islamic State's violent ideology, says Muslims must return to the practices of early Islam in the seventh century and shun many aspects of modern Western life.
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The tale of a Puritan family turning on each other as they attempt to root out the supernatural evil plaguing their farm, the film won Eggers the award for best director at Sundance—and even frightened horror master Stephen King.
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Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)With the political world watching to see if Marco Rubio's less-than-stellar debate reviews impact his political momentum, the Florida senator brushed off criticism in a brief interview with CNN outside the Puritan Backroom Restaurant.
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His film is obsessively concerned with authenticity, from the period dialogue filled with thees, thous, and Puritan catechism to the hand-hewn boards that make up the remote cabin on a wilderness farm where most of the action takes place.
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The director Robert Eggers has joked that he's "disgusted" with how much "The Witch" evokes "The Shining," but he shouldn't be, considering how well he wields that influence in a story about an exiled Puritan family facing threats of witchcraft.
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Ms. Garnett's lineage suggests a no-nonsense approach: She traces her family line back to the early Puritan settlers in Massachusetts, and her family on both sides is full of West Point graduates and generals dating to the early 19th century.
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But when I look up its history now, I find that Sadie Hawkins is not, as I had always assumed, a remnant of Puritan times, a day when the rules went topsy-turvy in the spirit of a medieval carnival.
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That thesis traces a long line between a 1670 Puritan sermon that urged Americans to leave home and "civilize the wilderness" all the way to the country's Cold War "insistence on invading Vietnam to 'save' it from godless Communism," Buttigieg wrote.
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Abby, who is so sheltered (or young) that she has never heard of John Waters, arrives the same day that Tom brings home a cute new chicken (whom Ms. Varsano also plays); he names her after the Puritan radical Anne Hutchinson.
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Hardly anyone was untainted, including our cherished Puritan forebears, who not only held African slaves but also waged wars against New England Natives, kept some as slaves for themselves, and sent others to work on plantations in Barbados and Jamaica.
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It is a WASPy incarnation of magical realism: a Puritan horror story in which a man comes to realize the unbearably fragile fiction of his own life in the span of a day spent dipping into pools and wandering across his neighbors' lawns.
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"One thing the right wing has done pretty effectively in the last few years is, they've managed to frame the discussion as a kind of puritan, moralistic, sermonizing left versus a kind of edgy, rebellious, punk-rock right," says 30-year-old Wynn.
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The film is far more concerned with the intent and agency of its teenage protagonists — who, unlike what their parents believe, are very aware of the consequences of the choice they've made — than it is with reinforcing a message of puritan abstinence.
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The well-pedigreed wall metaphor (Jefferson had borrowed it from Roger Williams, a 17th-century Puritan theologian) is centuries old, but it is becoming less and less apt as a description of the unique relationship between America's religions and its state institutions.
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William Gouge, an influential Puritan writer in 17th-century England, lambasted women who called their husbands "sweet, sweeting, heart, sweet-heart, love, joy, dear…duck, chick, pigsnie &c", terms that struck him as undermining the wifely deference essential for a successful union.
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Good Booty turns out to be the perfect title, not only for the obvious reason, but because the book recounts how a country founded on Puritan values and scarred by slavery has simultaneously expressed and suppressed its libidinal urges over the years.
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Jumping from Reformation-era Brazil to Puritan New England to Langston Hughes's Harlem, it is that rare book of short fiction with an epic intuition of time, accomplishing in a handful of inspired, intimate portraits what many sagas only manage in reams.
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She returned to Hong Kong and enrolled in an Islamic course run by a puritan, though non-extremist, Salafist institute — but left it in mid-2014 when her teacher reported her to the police because she had voiced support for the Islamic State.
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Over time, my project has turned into an ongoing reflection of a generation alarmed by the rise of a new Puritan religious social movement that is imposing restraints on sexual expression, contraception, abortion, gender and sexuality — sharply restricting the freedom of individuals.
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Written in the epistolary style of Dracula, it tells the tale of an aristocrat unearthing hidden secrets about his family and their connection to the ruined Puritan settlement of Jerusalem's Lot — a macabre site that turns out to be teeming with vampires.
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Not only do his sisters, who "could remember him in short trousers, when his glasses were mended with sticking plaster," still consider him a "buttoned-up" puritan, but his sway over his wife and daughter is about to be assailed from the most unexpected quarters.
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American exceptionalism, hard-right conservatism, crony capitalism, Christian fundamentalism, rampant privatization, and of course, acute narcissism are among the self-serving, me-first interests that allow for a Puritan like Mike Pence and a techno-nepocrat like Jared Kushner to serve in the same administration.
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The True Origin Of New Year's ResolutionsSetting intentions for the new year has historical roots as distant as ancient Babylon, but our Puritan ancestors embraced this tradition with particular self-denying gusto since it represented a sober alternative to drunken celebrations of the changing calendar.
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The Handmaid's Tale — both the 1985 book by Margaret Atwood and Hulu's forthcoming adaptation — is a dystopian story about women who are reduced to the functionality of their wombs, about a Puritan theocratic society that views women as sexual objects and punishes them for it.
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And then there's the many dystopias cropping up in pop culture, whether it's Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, or HBO's Westworld, both of which use potent American symbols (Puritan dress and ideology, and the Wild West, respectively) and twist them into something bleak.
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It may be impossible for an empathetic audience to watch Weiner without wondering whether his inquisitors' text histories and chat logs are as Puritan as their attitudes, or whether the comedians snickering over his name would be as brave about their dirty laundry being aired.
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And, like Restoration comedy, which took over the English stage once the Puritan regime's ban on theatre ended, "School Girls" comments on the times—in this case, on our fascinating era, in which so much debate centers on the body, especially the female body.
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Howe's work treats as bricolage the writings of Cotton Mather and the Puritan divines, the captivity stories of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Dustin, old bird books, Thoreau's journals, the poetry of Longfellow, dusty municipal histories, and, most of all, the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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Ultimately, the family's accusations become a self-fulfilling prophecy; with her entire family dead or missing, Thomasin sheds the Puritan clothing that had obscured her natural body and signs the devil's book, casting her lot with the coven of witches living in the woods.
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Maura Sullivan, a former Marine and Veterans Administration official, and Chris Pappas, a New Hampshire Executive Council member whose family co-owns the Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester, a well-known stop on the presidential campaign trail, are also running for the Democratic nomination.
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Katie Roiphe originally gained notoriety by criticizing what she called the "neo-Puritan preoccupation" with date rape — her past writing on sexual assault was one reason many were concerned that she had been assigned to write about the Shitty Media Men list for Harper's.
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There's also Samantha Morton as Mary Lou Barebone, an intolerant, magic-hating woman who isn't too far removed from the cray-cray mamma in Carrie, and Ezra Miller as a troubled young man, pale and thin as a Puritan starving in midwinter, whom she routinely torments.
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It began in England, among Puritan preachers in the 18th century such as Increase and Cotton Mather, who preached the notion of a "rapture" in which believers would be brought to Jesus before a period of "tribulation" and turmoil on earth, resulting in Jesus's Second Coming.
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And the interesting question arises: if Puritanism was a necessary part of the work-ethos which enabled the industrialized world to break out of the poverty-stricken economies of the past, will the Puritan valuation of time begin to decompose as the pressures of poverty relax?
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Glenn, who is also a high school English teacher, has a keen ear for the emptiness of political bloviation.) So is the concept of free will according to Puritan theology, a subject of particular concern to Goodman Giddens (Zuzanna Szadkowski), who suffers from some mighty unholy lusts.
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Ancient Tomes Were Unearthed To get a grasp on the thinking and language of the period, Mr. Eggers pored over books, church pamphlets from Cotton Mather, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" (a 16th-century text that aims to disprove the existence of witches) and various sermons from Puritan ministers.
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While I'm forced to admit that 2015's The Witch was a cinematic masterpiece, it's centered around the same premise as The Conjuring, asserting that victims of the Puritan witch hunt in the 17th century were justifiably executed, as they really were murdering babies under the orders of Satan.
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The bride is a direct descendant of John Wheelwright, a Puritan who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 and in the following year founded Exeter, N.H. The groom, 34, is a vice president at the Center Development Corporation, a real estate development firm in New York.
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As the play opens on the Puritan colonists in 1692, the seeds of the conflict have already been planted — a girl is bedridden with an unknown affliction, and her cousin, Abigail (Truett Felt), is trying to cover up a godless night of dancing, blood and would-be sorcery.
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