Sentence examples for a propriety from inspiring English sources

Which, alas, is a propriety much easier insisted on than achieved.

But young as he is, he has conducted himself with a propriety and a judgment, in this his adopted country, which has rendered him a universal favourite.

Fezoo, who had haunted this house from before I was born, was not my familiar, had treated even my father with a propriety that substituted for his emotions, which were locked behind an unlined, beardless Asiatic face and green eyes, the features of some long-ago ancestor from the north again pressed into being.

The products could be anything from a propriety assay system to high-tech equipment.

Six acutely FIV-infected cats (≥16 weeks post-inoculation) were given a propriety oral superoxide dismutase (SOD) supplement (Oxstrin; Nutramax Laboratories) for 30 days.

Each multi-conformer peptide-ligand was exhaustively docked to a receptor using default step-sizes and the ChemGauss2 scoring function (a propriety function of OpenEye) [41].

Which adds another unhelpful, from a propriety-respecting viewpoint, layer of meaning to "bring it off".

I could be greatly moved by an inflexibility, a harsh propriety, that at other times I scorned.

The difficulty was an uncoöperative world, slouching through a new propriety under Clinton.

Expected in a woman, propriety is often viewed as suspect in a man.

The story is set in the nineties — "an uncoöperative world" for sexual hedonists, "slouching through a new propriety under Clinton".