Sentence examples for a pillar of rectitude from inspiring English sources

Kurt Masur has been a pillar of rectitude, although not exactly a wellspring of varied repertory.

Owned by a roguish church deacon, Al Wylie — a smooth-talking, ­fancy-dressing man who's actually a pillar of rectitude — the mortuary was a "one-stop shop" for the community.

Skilling, appearing a pillar of rectitude and restraint, took the stand yesterday along with two Enron board members, its current president and a company lawyer.

Pretending to be a pillar of journalistic rectitude, Twain claims to have received a drunken letter describing the junket.

At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.

With an oblong face, a thick shock of gray hair, and a starchy voice, Wallace resembled a pillar of Washington rectitude from a Hollywood drama.

For these reasons Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England and a pillar of policy rectitude, has endorsed Britain's fiscal stimulus.

Which brings us back to the awkward fact that Mr. Ryan isn't actually a pillar of fiscal rectitude, or anything like the budget expert he pretends to be.

"Mr. Comey has a record dating back to 2004 of challenging and defying higher authorities, including President George W. Bush in the famous Stellar Wind matter, and is clearly a man who prides himself as a pillar of moral rectitude, who is willing to defy presidents and, in this case, his superiors at the justice department," Weiner said.

Yet finally it doesn't matter, because the movie belongs to Joan Allen and Gary Oldman, whose characters at every turn burst the bounds of the pillar-of-rectitude-versus-wily-pol scenario to tap into the passionate energy of cultural conflict.

So often do we cast Alfred Brendel as metaphysician -- as some pillar of rectitude helping to hold up the Classical-era piano literature -- that we forget how much a man of the theater he is.