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Miller, however, would complete his double with a finish of such purity that he would cause the majority in the stands to wonder how he could be so wasteful and so productive in the course of a single match.
But, it was enough to keep it from being challenger Matt Bevin's Republican party – especially after his unforced errors and willingness to prize ideological purity over more pragmatic concerns (like the $2bn in pork McConnell brought home for agreeing to end the government shutdown).
The purity of the American military's intentions will not be questioned by the parents of the kidnapped children, who are likely much more concerned about the intentions of their own military and elected officials.
Brown's work has none of the hyper-loveliness of the pre-Raphaelites with whom his name is so often bracketed, even though he was never a formal member of the Brotherhood, that group of seven excitable young men who made a pact in 1848 to revolutionise English art by returning it to the purity of the 14th century.
Powell was not the first or the last politician to be caught between the concept and the act, the purity of the idea and the twist and turns of real life, but in his case the gift for abstraction was so advanced that the gap yawned wider than for most.
It is a sad indictment of the left that people who pay so much lip service to collective action demand a purity test before joining in a campaign of such fundamental importance.
It combines chocolatey richness with fiery pepper and great purity of flavour.
That is not how the majority of TDs see the Wallace affair and its implications for a group in the Dail that prides itself on leftwing purity , probity in public office and not being part of the dominant political cartels so often in they past they accused of corruption and cronyism.
And if, in a surge of Jacobin purity , the party had voted for an outright ban on faith schools, it would have been only a gesture.
This lack of secrecy and guilt is most visible on the internet, where there is now a proliferation of blogs and websites where, like any other consumers, heroin users compare prices, quality, the "taste" and purity of the product.
The exhibition also shows how pearls have often been seen as a sign of power and authority, in the medieval period, or as a symbol of purity and chastity, and that pearls can symbolise both love and sorrow.
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The primary grammatical function of "purity" is as a noun , denoting the state or quality of being pure. It describes the condition of something being free from contamination, either physically or morally, as Ludwig examples demonstrate.
Expression frequency: Very common
