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He accused Mr. Venturi’s critics of “preoccupation with a rather prissily puristic aesthetic.”

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2018

“The problem is that the iPad’s design is already pretty puristic, so any other tablet will necessarily remind you of that,” Ehmann said in an interview.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 16, 2011

In keeping with this idealized conception of art, Muzio asserts that everything obscene or immoral must be excluded from poetry; and this puristic notion of art is everywhere emphasized in Renaissance criticism.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias

The antithetic balance and word-jingle, with an exquisite, puristic, precise, and delicate lisp, as of one tasting the flavour of his words throughout.

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham

They wrote poems in the puristic language and compared their works in stimulating friendliness.

From Life Immovable First Part by Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus)