Sentence examples for as propriety from inspiring English sources

No, America is a country where hypocrisy is conveyed as propriety, or as the backdrop for a holier-than-thou moment of repentance and renewal.

Some brilliant publishing person or cabal saw the pleasure in these tales -- anarchy masked as propriety -- and decided, brilliantly, to engage Brett Helquist to do the spiky and droll line drawings.

In his elegant obituary, Gideon Haigh writes about Benaud's look: "Usually bareheaded, shirt open as wide as propriety permitted, he was a colourful, outgoing antidote to an austere, tight-lipped era".

The Volcker rule, which is part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform package, is meant to limit banks' ability to make risky trades with taxpayer-backed money, a practice known as propriety trading.

Nowadays, natural zeolite found in many environmental applications, which gain the attention of many researchers due to its properties such as proprieties adsorption, catalysis and ion exchange (Weng and Huang 1994; Erdem et al. 2004; Benefield et al. 1982; Adrian 1948; Zhang 2006).

Firstly, the only arguably explicit attitude is realised by an instance of 'generic behaviour': to lend a hand, which is generally appraised positively as Judgement: Propriety (as ethically good) for those who lend a hand – perhaps, again arguably invoked via positive Affect towards that behaviour: I wouldn't mind ~.

Everyone is hilariously unconcerned with bourgeois habits of cleanliness and propriety as well as the anxieties of consumerism and status.

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?

Perhaps one should read it, though, not as the kind of Judas-like betrayal that Arbus was often accused of but as a savage gesture of poetic justice, as blind to propriety as was the art of the woman it lays bare, and as the final payment, by an honorable executor, of her mother's outstanding debt — a debt of self-revelation — to her subjects.

(If the servants happen to overhear, there are questions of propriety as well).

The internet is a funny place – so full of porn and hate, but so often as obsessed with propriety as a Victorian maiden aunt.