purism
noun
pur·ism
ˈpyu̇r-ˌi-zəm 
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Yarrow, who died on Tuesday at 86, was also a member of the Newport Folk Festival board that had been striving to balance the event’s founding mission — bringing traditional music to a wider audience — with the preferences of that wider audience, which was more drawn to pop than purism.
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Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Plus, purism aside, there isn’t much of a difference between natural and man-made diamonds.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
Yet the purism that tends to drive the small-government view of the world also has a way of obscuring its vision.
—Bret Stephens, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2013
Kurkov sees such purism as reductive.
—New York Times, 24 May 2022
When we’re forced to witness that dynamism in real time, clinging to ecological purism only adds headache to heartbreak, Marris said.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
As Hollywood priorities go, punctuation purism would not seem high on the list.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
Intellectual impoverishment is the price of ideological purism.
—Ian Schwartz, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
One of best creations at BLK Dot is borderline sacrilegious in its rejection of purism: a VTM layered with grassy high-grade Uji matcha, two distinct and pleasantly bitter tones that complement rather than trample each other.
—Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
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Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Plus, purism aside, there isn’t much of a difference between natural and man-made diamonds.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
Yet the purism that tends to drive the small-government view of the world also has a way of obscuring its vision.
—Bret Stephens, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2013
Kurkov sees such purism as reductive.
—New York Times, 24 May 2022
When we’re forced to witness that dynamism in real time, clinging to ecological purism only adds headache to heartbreak, Marris said.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
As Hollywood priorities go, punctuation purism would not seem high on the list.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
Intellectual impoverishment is the price of ideological purism.
—Ian Schwartz, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
One of best creations at BLK Dot is borderline sacrilegious in its rejection of purism: a VTM layered with grassy high-grade Uji matcha, two distinct and pleasantly bitter tones that complement rather than trample each other.
—Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
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purism
noun
pur·ism
ˈpyu̇(ə)r-ˌiz-əm
: a strict following of what is considered absolutely correct especially in the use of words
purist
noun
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