The group abandoned some of its more extreme sexual practices and has remained a moderately successful movement with an international presence.
This split eventually led to the founding in 1698 of Boston's Brattle Street Church, which issued a manifesto explicitly distancing itself from some of the more extreme Puritan practices advocated by Mather and his son Cotton.
I was, in those days, still setting my own spongy curls on jumbo toilet-paper rolls in a futile effort to transform mohair into corn silk, and, reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," I had been humbled to learn about the more extreme mortifications practiced by black people in order "to look 'pretty,' " as Malcolm puts it, "by white standards".
The means by which Mr. von Trier induced this emotion could be questioned (see "The Humiliated," a documentary about the film's making), though they were arguably no more extreme than those practiced by any good psychoanalyst or charismatic director.
A more extreme version of the practice, known as Pharaonic circumcision or infibulation, accounts for 15percentt of cases globally and involves the removal of all external genitalia and a stitching up of the vaginal opening.
Turing Pharmaceuticals' price gouging of Daraprim may be a more extreme example of this practice, but it has caught public attention and generated outrage.
Such 'exploitation creep', as legal scholar Janie A Chuang put it, labels certain practices as more extreme than is legally accurate.
We therefore attempted to recruit the few practices with more extreme percentages.
Nonetheless, he and his followers—"the Poor" or "Poor Men"—continued to do so and were condemned by the church, which drove them to more extreme positions on doctrine and practice.
