Sentence examples for a propriety that from inspiring English sources

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.

In this optic the acquisition of the fertilizing ability is a system propriety that emerges when these cells are considered in their whole signaling network.

That, of course, includes Germany.Mr Sikorski went on to highlight the fragility of the EU's institutions and procedures: they work "tolerably well" when times are good, but depend on "goodwill and a sense of propriety" that frays quickly in a crisis.

It's a capsule reminder that many children grow up learning American history through a lens of stilted propriety that makes everything seem like a series of distant, compartmentalized ups and downs.

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

It also means obedient, as well as having a certain sense of propriety that is characteristic of people in the countryside.

The dancers seem to coexist with the music rather than respond to it, and there is something about the contained, careful movement (even deviations from classical form are executed with decorous propriety) that suggest an observant outsider looking in.

Munro's prose has such a surface propriety that you're never prepared for the shocking places her stories take you.

The barriers of propriety that kept the press from reporting on J.F.K.'s mistresses have been falling since the nineteen-seventies.

He is Victorian Bushranger through and through and so admits, with typical disdain for propriety, that "the Aussies will fight their rings off, there's no doubt about that", but "if we score the runs we're capable of then we'll win comfortably.

But he gave himself license to cross lines of basic propriety that brought him into disrepute and soiled his message as to the purity and innocence that adults could learn from children.