Sentence examples for air of rectitude from inspiring English sources
Simultaneously sustaining an air of rectitude and a tradition of banking secrecy is getting harder and harder.
There was a time when skyscrapers really were as civic-centered as cathedrals, and crusading photojournalists were attached to projects to give them an air of rectitude: Lewis Hine was hired by the Empire State Building to counter the Chrysler team's Margaret Bourke-White.
And, to maintain an air of Victorian rectitude, he often brought along chaperones when he and Leckie were together.
There is a kind of rectitude that has the air of self-defeating vanity.
Its treasury is a bastion of rectitude.
Tom is muddled and full of rectitude.
Most of us know nonbelievers who are pillars of rectitude.
To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
In a fit of rectitude, he cuts the lines..
La féminité, in conjunction with feminism, unbound these structures of rectitude, undoing the family.
"When criminals rely on past dealing and the appearance of rectitude, no reason exists for caution".
