Sentence examples for a model of rectitude from inspiring English sources

LIKE many preachers' kids, William Franklin Graham was not always a model of rectitude.

Mr Singh, once a model of rectitude, is tarnished by presiding over the most corrupt government in India's independent history.

"Spitzer held himself out as a model of rectitude, as morally superior, and prosecuted escort services while patronizing one," he said.

In toppling "tigers and flies" — powerful officials and lowly bureaucrats — he both burnished his image as a model of rectitude and strategically ousted potential competitors.

That strategy also effectively killed the proposed reform measures that Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman brought in to advise Andersen, had hoped would rekindle the firm's onetime image as a model of rectitude and professionalism.

Even the great Sir Stanley Matthews, a model of rectitude in his personal habits, saw nothing wrong with endorsing the weed, attributing his "smooth ball control" to the "smoothness of Craven A".

Crick's statement is a model of biographical rectitude.

I assured him that my article would be a model of journalistic rectitude.

Obama's plan is a model of financial rectitude: modest tax cuts and spending programs financed by clearly identified increases in taxes and fees.

The mousy school principal who hires him, Rosalie Mullins Joan Cusackk), is a model of nervous rectitude behind whose spectacles flashes a tiny glint of rebellion.

But, at this point, we would have gladly settled for the routine competence of a George Roy Hill, whose national epic "Hawaii" (1966), put up against "Australia," is a model of narrative rectitude.