Sentence examples for at propriety from inspiring English sources
She embraced it all, flirted with the press and pushed at propriety at each twirl.
In its best moments, it has made Kenny a magical figure, while he thumbs his nose at propriety at every turn.
"We are looking at kidnappers, we are looking at terrorists, we are looking at banking integrity, we are looking at propriety interests and economic secrets," Louis Freeh, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told members of the International Cryptography Institute two years ago.
Timothy felt so strongly about not taking part in the Rochester and Strood byelection because Sue Gray, the director general at the propriety and ethics team at the cabinet office, declined to confirm in writing that special advisers could campaign after being asked to do so on seven occasions.
His endlessly glum lyrics, and an album package with glimpses of Los Angeles, hint at English propriety giving way to California temptations and then regretting it.
Furyk, who once chafed at the propriety of using the word playoffs to describe the four-tournament event, has let it go after five years.
But § 903 is directed at the propriety of employing a man who refuses to give needed information to appropriate public bodies.
And yet their attempts at total propriety are betrayed – by a suggestion of a giggle, or a moment of insecurity (gripping a friend's hand), or by their martial stiffness as they wait just too long for the shutter to close – so that it becomes clear they were absolutely alive to the process.
When asked to clarify his earlier comments, Beck said the personnel investigation "will look at the propriety of his time in LAPD custody".
He used humor to comment on human foibles, and subtle teasing to poke at social proprieties.
You could swing a baseball bat of propriety at him, and he would bounce back, beaming.
