Sentence examples for Very upstanding from inspiring English sources
"He is a very upstanding citizen," he added, referring to the grandfather.
We both grew up in Massachusetts, and I really relate to that New Englander thing: very upstanding and buttoned-up.
"The classic hepatitis C patient today is a very upstanding 50-year-old lawyer who once tried a needle when he was in college," Dr. Tobias said.
While appearing with Calipari at the Kentucky State Fair on Thursday, Gov. Steve Beshear told The Associated Press that Calipari was "a very upstanding guy".
Sasha modelled himself on him: he could be strict, but he was a very upstanding, moral person.' Marina, Alexander would often say later, reminded him of his grandmother: caring, kind, always running around doing things for other people.
London is where Russian oligarchs, Middle East arms salesmen and, above all, the very upstanding members of the new rich in Britain exercise the new censorship courtesy of our courts.
It shows the difficult to swallow reality that criminals are sometimes very likable, otherwise upstanding people whose ethics (and their commitment to them) often puts the rest of us to shame, law-breaking perhaps being the major exception.
"He was a fine, upstanding, affable, very intelligent guy," said Michael Lomonaco, executive chef at Windows on the World.
He had seemed, at the time, Hattie's ideal of an elderly creative artist: tall, very thin, with a shock of upstanding white hair, a face whose hollows seemed to have been carved out by suffering, tanned skin as soft as leather, a charcoal-gray linen shirt.
Yet even the bride's mother eventually comes round to the idea of having a senior citizen for a son-in-law: "He seemed to represent the ideal of an elderly creative artist: tall, very thin, with a shock of upstanding white hair, a face whose hollows seemed to have been carved out by suffering, tanned skin as soft as leather, a charcoal grey linen shirt".
But every time he has an opportunity or is forced by circumstance to have a gun in his hand or to talk to a less than upstanding potential ally, he feels very comfortable.
