Its devotion to vice was obsessive, amounting to an almost puritanical drive to pleasure.

The schooling for citizenship was rigid, almost puritanical, but it produced wonderful results, both in peace and in war.

We entered a handsome room, hung in costly Dutch tapestry, and richly furnished, yet with a sobriety of colour almost puritanical.

So with almost puritanical self-denial, he refused to be drawn into the shot until well past his century, no matter how great the temptation.

His tone with regard to them was marked with an almost puritanical coldness; he visited any feminine breach of the proprieties with angry censure.

Roger was still in his traveling-clothes, looking more drab than Daniel had ever seen him-almostPuritanical.

She was small, but very lovely, with something almost Puritanical in her dainty, precise dress and carefully snooded golden hair.

'Hell, it's almost puritanical,' Ben said.