Sentence examples for obsession with purity from inspiring English sources

He visits the Baltic "Riviera" to consider the German's obsession with purity (as expressed on its nudist beaches).

In later years, Auchincloss gradually became persuaded to take a more critical view of Peabody — he came to see that his obsession with purity might have done more harm than good to his warpable charges.

Religious, racial, and even anti-aristocratic class prejudices combined to create the obsession with "purity of blood" (limpieza de sangre) which became characteristic of the Spaniards in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The radical newness of ISIS society forms a strange counterpoint to the self-conscious archaism of the culture — the obsession with purity, with the buried truths of religion, and with classical literary forms.

His most recent novel, The Nature of Blood (1997), exposes Europe's tribal obsession with "purity" of blood, marrying "in" or "out", through characters resembling Anne Frank, Othello and Shylock.

The radical newness of ISIS society forms a strange counterpoint to the self-conscious archaism of the culture the obsession with purity, with the buried truths of religion, and with classical literary forms.

An obsession with the "purity" of women leaves many with little or no sexual freedom.

How do we disentangle his obsession with racial purity from his immigrant paranoia?

It compared the breeding to Nazism because of its obsession with breed purity.

Biss acknowledges that toxins can pose risks at sufficiently high levels, but she worries that an extreme obsession with bodily purity comes at its own price.

The book-burning, just like the closure of Berlin's radical Kroll Opera in the 1930's, epitomized the ultimately genocidal obsession with the purity of German culture.