Sentence examples for a certain rectitude from inspiring English sources

Martin Brookes may be right to dismiss this as a "blathering sermon," but it possesses a certain rectitude when set beside the new eugenicists' talk of a "posthuman" future of designer babies.

A certain earnestness.

A certain pattern emerged.

A certain attire.

By a certain light.

A certain unburdening.

To a certain extent.

— a certain pleasure.

A certain lady.

"To a certain point.

If this suggests, rightly, that he took a certain pride in facing up to grim truths about the human condition, Stegner sought to achieve that "livable accord" with grace and style and wit (not long before this quotation, he discusses DeVoto's little book in tribute to the cocktail hour) and with a rectitude that a good Puritan would admire, albeit unhitched from any transcendent source.