Sentence examples for lost purity from inspiring English sources
Now that he is in charge, many of Corbyn's more centrist colleagues fear that his greatest priority — more important than winning the general election in 2020 — is to restore Labour's lost purity.
With this new motif he was able to present a variety of complementary themes: the lost purity of pre-industrial societies; the constantly changing, nomadic identity of modern man; and his own powers of imaginative association.
The rituals for re-establishing lost purity, or for creating a higher degree of purity, take many different forms in the various contemporary and historical cultures for which information is available.
Purification rite, any of the ceremonial acts or customs employed in an attempt to reestablish lost purity or to create a higher degree of purity in relation to the sacred (the transcendental realm) or the social and cultural realm.
It's a strikingly good orchestra, with a fine string section that shone in the program's surging love themes, and soloists who excel in the piano concerto's Andante and in this piece render the solo clarinet passage an exquisite expression of lost purity.
Because lost purity can be re-established only by ritual and also because purity is often a precondition for the performance of rituals of many kinds, anthropologists refer to this general field of cultural phenomena as "ritual purity" and "ritual pollution".
In the Netherlands it is very difficult to find other comparable religious group to match without losing purity of culture.
Mowgli may represent lost innocence and purity to us, but to the animals in the story he is an obscure symbol of the evil men do.
"I felt we'd lost the purity of our purpose," Julia said recently.
We've lost the purity of 'We want every city to have access to high quality art and drama'.
In a 1979 story for New York magazine, Larry Rivers suggested that the art world lost its purity when its marriage to the poets, whose work was not easily made into a commodity, wound down.
