Sentence examples for be the decent from inspiring English sources
It would be the decent thing.
If you really want to be the decent guy you pretend to be, you'll offer opportunities to talented Negro performers, just as you do to whites".
But then, when it's over, the exhausted but shocked man - the wreck left - has to try to be the decent fellow the world expects.
But we Canadians will rid ourselves of Harper and rise again to be the decent and intelligent nation you Brits once patronised with such delight.
The minute you have David "calm down, dear" Cameron wading in to say it would be the decent thing for someone to give you a seat, what choice do you have but to tell him to sod off?
Downey Jnr is too debauched to play Holmes who – despite his cocaine habit – was always ascetic and asexual; Law is too young, callow and knowing to be the decent, slow-on-the-uptake middle-aged doctor; and McAdams, though she looks perfectly acceptable in a whalebone corset, is too saucy to play the steely adventuress Adler.
"It's the decent thing to do".
Homemade pasta in Laos was quite unexpected, as was the decent bottle of … Bordeaux!
It is to ape Nigel Farage and claim that leave voters are the "decent people".
Norma Shearer is the decent Park Avenue wife whose husband is leaving her for a déclassé sales clerk.
Wouldn't that have been the decent thing to do?" Mr. Torricelli asked.
