In this case, it projects a good cover for Puritan morality.

On the other hand, there is the puritan morality of the religious right that considers the nude body sinful.

But during the "Roaring Twenties," traditional "Puritan morality" was giving way to a new freedom.

By the late 19th century, Carlyle's portrayal of Cromwell, stressing the centrality of puritan morality and earnestness, had become assimilated into Whig and Liberal historiography.

This strict, almost Puritan morality was, after all, the genesis of Branding's antipathy towards his fellow senator, Douglas Howe, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

But as to sensible solutions, such as legalizing the sale of heroin to break the world-wide criminal control on the distribution of drugs--that your vapid Puritan morality wouldn't permit.

Had any huckster of liquors, knicknacks, and explosive crackers, hung out signs in those days, the old Puritan morality of the land was yet vigorous enough to abate the nuisance.

In his preface to Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, he introduced a passage of autobiography couched in a similar tone: "In the Puritan morality that I remember.

Duckles clarified the meaning: "The outspoken vulgarity was not necessarily result of personal taste but a reflection of Royalist protest against Puritan morality, intended to shock the taste of Parliamentarians."

Olga has complained of the new puritan morality replacing the anything-goes mentality of the post-communist epoch, even if “the level of awareness and knowledge of the population has vastly increased” since the demise of communism.

Historian Roger Baker argues that the Restoration and Charles' coronation mark a reversal of the stringent Puritan morality, "as though the pendulum [of England's morality] swung from repression to licence more or less overnight."

The children of the seventeenth and eighteenth century were taught Puritan morality with catechisms like Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes so they would learn not to anger God-otherwise they could be severely punished, even to the point of death.

In addition to a description of life in the fur trade during the early years of the 19th century the work is notable for its account of the moral dilemmas Harmon confronted in the context his lingering Puritan morality and the sexual customs in the frontier.