Sentence examples for an effort of decency from inspiring English sources

All the time, it's as if he were preoccupied with some inward effort, which he thinks no one else sees — an effort of decency, of fitting in.

Make an effort of putting an effort!

And then everyone could go off to attack the shrimp, while pleading Lewis's case for a favorable historical judgment against the likes of Butkus and L. T. That's all it usually takes, a token effort, a gesture of decency, because most people have already come to the grudging conclusion that contemporary professional sports are not about family values, or viewing.

"He certainly did give the world an image of decency, didn't he?

That is a matter of decency.

This is a failure of decency and good sense.

9 1 A DEFICIT OF DECENCY, by Zell Miller.

Cliff was a caricature of "decency".

Legislation is sometimes simply a benchmark of decency.

If he has a minimal of decency, he will resign in the next few days".

Staying home, caring for the house and for children was considered a matter of decency.