For some of these groups, circumcision appears to be purely cultural, done with no particular religious significance or intention to distinguish members of a group.

Some websites argue a certain religious or political viewpoint, while some take a purely cultural or secular focus.

Whenever edema does occur in a plant, especially the soft-leaved ones such as geranium, the cure is purely cultural.

In Singapore itself, assimilation to Malayness was and is purely cultural, with no guiding hand to police it.

It is a purely cultural festival with no technical events.

But the purely cultural process did operate in the experiment, and therefore probably occurred in nature as well.

This was part of an evolution in Armenian political consciousness from purely cultural romanticism to a programme for action.

But it tended to keep its hands off purely cultural events.

If there is a mission-for me at least, the others may feel differently-it's to inject a Marxist/socialist political viewpoint in between the purely cultural stuff.

Part, no doubt, is President Clinton's easy relation with blacks, not only on a partisan level but also in purely cultural terms.