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Definition of purism in English: purismnoun ˈpjʊərɪz(ə)mˈpjʊrˌɪzəm mass noun1Scrupulous or exaggerated observance of or insistence on traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style. (尤指语言或风格上的)纯粹主义 Mrs Grundy's name is now synonymous with narrow linguistic purism Example sentencesExamples - This ‘Minister of Political Correctness’ is more interested in cultural sensitivity and environmental purism, than the protection of public safety in that area.
- When it comes to purism, the activists tell us that we cannot be too pure.
- There are few self-confessed purists among the critics of the English language today; purism is generally a negative term, and by and large purists are regarded as hypercorrective extremists.
- Owen later mirrors his father's retreat into the classical past by converting to Irish language purism, signalled by his decision to restore the seventh-century name of the Murren instead of Anglicizing it.
- Harry Seidler's breathtaking refinement of detail and visual purism, when it appeared after World War II, was aided by a new interpretation of modern architecture.
- About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
- An extreme case of the role of purism in the expression of nationalistic and racial conscience can be seen in Nazi Germany.
- Indeed, he associates the preservation of Irish and Irish language purism with destructive and self-destructive behaviors that jeopardize Irish survival on all levels.
- Hugh's rejection of what he has recognized puts the burden on us in the audience to turn from the past to the future, from linguistic purism to linguistic ecumenism, and from physical force to imaginative growth.
- Both sides of the partisan divide have their little problem with purism.
- Nurse managers tend to hold systematised conceptions of clinical work and to be somewhat equivocal about clinical purism and opaque accountability
- Gandhi could not live up to his principles partly because he was a practical politician, and the job of politics is to dilute ideological and moral purism.
- In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
- They use separate chapters to evaluate the respective influence of political structure, the American Federation of Labor, immigration, Socialist Party purism, and political repression on the fate of labor politics.
- This attack states, in effect, that Hiatt's purism is unsustainable in the real world, and that government contracts do not automatically lead to corruption of academic integrity.
- Keen on tradition but not on purism, Moore's country, blues and waltz repertoire includes covers and original songs, some self-penned, others written by her bandmates Peter Hay and Randall Lawrence.
- What Bakhtin finds onerous in Kant's philosophical formulations is its purism and utopianism.
- His gentlemanly approach to woman and his racial purism are enough to convince conservatives that he will turn around the social liberalism of the last, well, 30 years I guess.
- Such purism and moral fervor seem inimitable for art writing today.
- But generally speaking, in our emerging virtual era the stress is no longer on questions relating to style, purism, or historical tradition.
Synonyms dogmatism, literalism, formalism 2An early 20th-century artistic style and movement founded by Le Corbusier and the French painter Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966) and emphasizing purity of geometric form. It arose out of a rejection of cubism and was characterized by a return to the representation of recognizable objects. 纯粹派(20世纪初由科尔比西耶和法国画家阿梅代·奥尚方[1886-1966]创立的、强调几何模型之纯粹性的艺术风格和运动;该风格和运动产生于对立体派的摈弃,其典型特征是重新重视对可辨物的表现) Example sentencesExamples - There are about 100 trends and technical forces shown, and 60 movements, many of them ‘isms’ - Futurism, Purism, Expressionism, Brutalism or Metabolism - that became ‘wasms’.
- Until 1926 he painted in the cool style characteristic of Purism, depicting such objects as bottles and glasses in profile.
- Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, social realism, his art experienced them all.
- These included, as he wrote in his journals, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Orphism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, ‘and an avalanche of exposed secrets.’
Definition of purism in US English: purismnounˈpjʊrˌɪzəmˈpyo͝orˌizəm 1Scrupulous or exaggerated observance of or insistence on traditional rules or structures, especially in language or style. (尤指语言或风格上的)纯粹主义 Mrs. Grundy's name is now synonymous with narrow linguistic purism Example sentencesExamples - Gandhi could not live up to his principles partly because he was a practical politician, and the job of politics is to dilute ideological and moral purism.
- Hugh's rejection of what he has recognized puts the burden on us in the audience to turn from the past to the future, from linguistic purism to linguistic ecumenism, and from physical force to imaginative growth.
- There are few self-confessed purists among the critics of the English language today; purism is generally a negative term, and by and large purists are regarded as hypercorrective extremists.
- This attack states, in effect, that Hiatt's purism is unsustainable in the real world, and that government contracts do not automatically lead to corruption of academic integrity.
- Nurse managers tend to hold systematised conceptions of clinical work and to be somewhat equivocal about clinical purism and opaque accountability
- Indeed, he associates the preservation of Irish and Irish language purism with destructive and self-destructive behaviors that jeopardize Irish survival on all levels.
- They use separate chapters to evaluate the respective influence of political structure, the American Federation of Labor, immigration, Socialist Party purism, and political repression on the fate of labor politics.
- Owen later mirrors his father's retreat into the classical past by converting to Irish language purism, signalled by his decision to restore the seventh-century name of the Murren instead of Anglicizing it.
- An extreme case of the role of purism in the expression of nationalistic and racial conscience can be seen in Nazi Germany.
- But generally speaking, in our emerging virtual era the stress is no longer on questions relating to style, purism, or historical tradition.
- About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
- What Bakhtin finds onerous in Kant's philosophical formulations is its purism and utopianism.
- This ‘Minister of Political Correctness’ is more interested in cultural sensitivity and environmental purism, than the protection of public safety in that area.
- Both sides of the partisan divide have their little problem with purism.
- Harry Seidler's breathtaking refinement of detail and visual purism, when it appeared after World War II, was aided by a new interpretation of modern architecture.
- His gentlemanly approach to woman and his racial purism are enough to convince conservatives that he will turn around the social liberalism of the last, well, 30 years I guess.
- Such purism and moral fervor seem inimitable for art writing today.
- When it comes to purism, the activists tell us that we cannot be too pure.
- Keen on tradition but not on purism, Moore's country, blues and waltz repertoire includes covers and original songs, some self-penned, others written by her bandmates Peter Hay and Randall Lawrence.
- In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
Synonyms dogmatism, literalism, formalism 2An early-20th-century artistic style and movement founded by Le Corbusier and the French painter Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966) and emphasizing purity of geometric form. It arose out of a rejection of cubism and was characterized by a return to the representation of recognizable objects. 纯粹派(20世纪初由科尔比西耶和法国画家阿梅代·奥尚方[1886-1966]创立的、强调几何模型之纯粹性的艺术风格和运动;该风格和运动产生于对立体派的摈弃,其典型特征是重新重视对可辨物的表现) Example sentencesExamples - There are about 100 trends and technical forces shown, and 60 movements, many of them ‘isms’ - Futurism, Purism, Expressionism, Brutalism or Metabolism - that became ‘wasms’.
- Until 1926 he painted in the cool style characteristic of Purism, depicting such objects as bottles and glasses in profile.
- Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Neo-Plasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism, social realism, his art experienced them all.
- These included, as he wrote in his journals, Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Orphism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, ‘and an avalanche of exposed secrets.’
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