Sentence examples for Social propriety from inspiring English sources
"social propriety" is correct and usable in written English
It is a formal way of referring to accepted behavior in society as dictated by unspoken rules or norms of conduct. For example, "It is considered socially inappropriate to bring up politics at the dinner table, so for the sake of social propriety it is best to avoid the topic altogether."
Think of that physical energy modified and controlled to conform with social propriety, adhering to the manners that she both celebrates and mocks in her fiction.
Karr wants to have adventures too, which classifies her as an eccentric and something of a tomboy; her "natural enthusiasm," she writes, "often outstrips social propriety".
By now the air is thick with a sense of social propriety, which is relieved by a section devoted to increasingly erotic erotica, complete with posted warning sign.
Perhaps a standup comedian, especially somebody as out there as Pryor, would appreciate her disregard for social propriety, her outrageousness, her loyalty to nothing but the workings of her own startlingly original mind.
This is especially true of Mr. Hutchison, who gives Bill's self-consciousness and tone deafness to social propriety the kind of surprise line readings that make it impossible not to both feel for him and giggle at him.
At the centre of The Royal Ballet's latest triple bill is Kenneth MacMillan's grim, graphic concentrate of Federico Garcia Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba, the story of five sisters house-bound by social propriety and a bitterly repressive mother.
Even at this late date when God knows, anything goes, Porter's needling commentary on social proprieties and irreverent treatment of sexual politics has lost practically none of its post-Freudian edge and antipuritanical bite.
In times of mourning and shock, human beings drop the social proprieties and their faces convey clearer pictures of their emotions, said Dr. Gordon Bower, a professor of psychology at Stanford University who studies body language and facial expression.
Sometimes such relationships were said to occur "by accident", when people were sleeping; but as long as social fictions and propriety were maintained, these remained unspoken.
"She was almost like a 'Real Housewife' — people didn't want her at the party," said a social acquaintance who, for propriety's sake, asked not to be identified.
I'm teaching them lessons about propriety and social media.
