Sentence examples for against propriety from inspiring English sources

Like D. H. Lawrence, whom she calls her mentor, she sides with instinct against propriety, despite the cost to herself and others.

And the narrator of "Child's Play," after informing us that children "are monstrously conventional," relates how she and a childhood friend transgressed not simply against propriety but against human life itself.

Peeking out at the audience from under dark brown bangs, speaking in a childish voice that accentuated her transgressions against propriety, Ms. Roche explained, to howls of laughter, how the lemon-scented products called out to her in uncensored terms that she was, as the commercials put it, not so fresh, or at least not fresh enough.

Moreover, in a survey of the health of the Swiss people, 10% of men and 8% of women reported that they had suffered at least one form of violence (verbal, physical or sexual, or crime against propriety) in the last 12 months [ 5].

Popper's arguments against holism, and in particular his arguments against the propriety of large-scale planning of social structures, are interconnected with his demonstration of the logical shortcomings of the presuppositions of historicism.

Together they shared authors and resources in their fight against literary propriety.

Perhaps the most important factor weighing against the propriety of the order is that without Congressional authority, such an order could establish a most undesirable, if not dangerous and unwise, precedent for the authority of federal courts to impress unwilling aid on private third parties.

"I believe nothing of any beauty or truth comes of a piece of writing without the author's thinking he has sinned against something – propriety, custom, faith, privacy, tradition, political orthodoxy, historical fact, literary convention, or indeed, all the prevailing standards together".

"In our daily struggle to maintain a civil order against multiple transgressions against property and propriety, not even the dead can now rest in peace".

Coward felt he had a lucky escape from a suburban upbringing, which he once said was "liable to degenerate into refined gentility unless carefully watched", and in Private Lives he pits destructive passion against strait-laced propriety.

The trait that Leader calls "aggression" — "explaining what it was like to be Kingsley Amis partly means explaining how he came to see and depict the world in this way, as suffused with violence, anger, threat" — can be seen as a protest against this stifling propriety, a determination to insist on the prerogatives of the self.