Dad Lewis is what once was called an upright man, and as he expires we see the consequences of his uprightness.
The upright, unstreamlined '02 profile starts to seem like a statement of moral uprightness -- or, at least, of aesthetic protest on a long, ugly road of plumped-up, hothouse minivans and relentlessly, soporifically ostentatious S.U.V.'s.
This has produced a desire for uprightness among politicians.
Shōjiki (defined as uprightness or righteousness) and prayers were emphasized as the means by which to be united with kami.
As the church is "reformed according to the Word of God," so the lives of the individuals in the church are to conform to the Word of God; hence the Reformed tradition has assigned great prominence to the cultivation of moral uprightness among its members.
Moreover, he believed in a loosely federated national church, with each parish free to worship as it wished within very broad limits and staffed by a clergy licensed by the state on the basis of their knowledge of the Bible and the uprightness of their lives, without reference to their religious beliefs.
As the basic attitude toward life, Shintō emphasizes makoto no kokoro ("heart of truth"), or magokoro ("true heart"), which is usually translated as "sincerity, pure heart, uprightness".
The view that the possession of uprightness is a solely human attribute is untenable; humans are merely the one species of the order that has exploited the potential of this ancestry to its extreme.
Confucius transformed it into the uprightness of the junzi, who influences others toward ethical action with the example of his excellence (de).
Known for his moral uprightness, he was learned in several disciplines and prominent in government.
