Mr. Newman said that he had idolized his father as a figure of moral rectitude but that they had had a distant relationship.
Mr. Hyde, long a figure of House rectitude, suffered disclosure of his own "youthful indiscretions" as the investigative sauce splashed from goose to gander.
The internal politics of the family plays a dominant path in both – though in A Quiet Passion, the Dickinson paterfamilias Edward Keith Carradinee) is a figure of stern rectitude, for sure, but a long way from the demonic, violent father-figures in which Davies has previously specialised.
In the second case, because the death of Husayn marked the loss of a figure of great rectitude and devotion - Husayn is the third imam of Shiism, after Ali and Husayn's elder brother Hasan Ibn Ali.
In the small hamlets around Canajoharie, a company town in rural Montgomery County, northwest of Albany, Lavery was known as a figure of propriety and rectitude.
From the beginning of her career, she has stood as a figure of powerful moral rectitude, questioning and confronting the vain and the superficial so rife in her world.
An article in Slate asked "how could he — this acclaimed leader and figure of rectitude — allow such a thing to a happen?" The italics are mine, because the verb is a telling one.
Mostly, though, it's about racism and the treatment of the family housekeeper, Minnie, who is presented as an unassailable figure of moral rectitude and something of a role model for Prudence, known then as Tina.
THE nine justices of America's Supreme Court like to present a unified image of rectitude, prudence and wisdom.
He studies Saint Augustine and Aquinas, we are told, and consults with John Brennan, whom one former official described to the Times as a priest-like figure of "genuine moral rectitude".
