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An immigrant donning a starched collar made himself acceptable; a young black woman in the dignified dress of a schoolteacher exuded propriety.

But Double Bind never quite compares to the transgressive jolt of Pretend You're Actually Alive, its outright assault on propriety as well as its inherent bigger question: does the semblance of art make it acceptable to photograph your mother having sex?

While many of the practices appear to have been perfectly acceptable under the rules and the amounts relatively small, especially by Washington standards, the details have raised questions of propriety and make up "a catalog of behavior that is a matter of national shame," a Liberal Democratic member of Parliament, Norman Baker, wrote in The Telegraph.

What propriety!

Cue the propriety police!

Propriety, however, bred boredom.

Is there any propriety in it?

Propriety is also a sticking point.

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For him playfulness and passion trump propriety.

Propriety is a matter of perspective.

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