Sentence examples for On propriety from inspiring English sources

Mencius is rejecting the analogy between compromising on ritual propriety to save the country and compromising on propriety to save one's sister-in-law.

(The prohibition on propriety trading was championed by Democrats).

"One of the dangers is that emphasis on propriety and good can be constricting.

But her insistence on propriety helped to legitimize a profession previously deemed suspect.

"Boring" is her shorthand for anything that reeks of orthodoxy, earnestness, an overemphasis on propriety.

Ms. Danson is uncompromising as the careworn Ms. Priam, who sometimes insists on propriety and sometimes flips her kids the bird.

The sardonic smile she wears as Wilma liberates cash from bankers and swells and other suckers is a thing of beauty: unrepentant appetite taking its well-earned revenge on propriety.

The classical text for the Confucian ideal of deportment and dress is Book X of the Analects, in which the emphasis is on propriety in every detail, whether at home or in affairs of state or ceremony.