Sentence examples for basically decent from inspiring English sources

Its story, after all, hews to one of the top five movie plots: a self-centered, basically decent guy confronts his self-centeredness, affirming his basic decency and thus meriting the love of the woman he had driven away.

My mother was basically decent, compassionate, strong, wilful.

To say what is basically decent, what is basically right".

Despite this, Wallander is the sort of basically decent, liberal character you love all the same.

"Ray makes the point that, despite that, Steele is basically decent and sentimental," Mr. Hanson said.

"My mother was basically decent, compassionate, strong, willful," he told the Guardian's Michael Hann.

Why, then, do so many basically-decent people insist that they remain?

Mayor Mike, a political voice in the wilderness on the issue, is basically a decent guy with decent instincts.

Basically, for decent viewing you'll need as near to total blackout as possible.

"People think he's basically a decent guy," said Vin Weber, a former Republican member of Congress from Minnesota.

People from Iowa are basically very decent, kind and wholesome, and I kind of neglected that in making fun of them for being rural and out of touch.