Sentence examples for boundaries of propriety from inspiring English sources

Her clothes are elegant, luxurious and expensive — all while staying well within the religious authorities' strictly enforced boundaries of propriety.

The resulting outcry led even government officials to say the investigators might have pushed the boundaries of propriety.

The boundaries of propriety are opaque to him: so fearful is he of betraying his sexuality, he buries his emotions beneath a granite expression and fearlessness in battle.

They were always vulnerable to populist instrumentalisation: it is the transgressive that sells papers, and the Farage/Trump play was to push the boundaries of propriety in part because what is outrageous is newsworthy, and thus guarantees free coverage.

I grew up in a huge state with an "X" in its middle, marking the place where the mouthy and the well-armed crisscross the boundaries of propriety like cattle rustlers.

Related: Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray to reach French Open final – as it happened The Scot later sidestepped suggestions that Djokovic had at least stretched the boundaries of propriety when, having been two sets up on Friday night, he took an eight-minute medical timeout after losing the third set in fading light with a storm brewing (both meteorological and metaphorical).

We've been here before: A movie pointedly tests what seems to be an established boundary of propriety, and rhetorical battle lines are drawn.

Justice Antonin Scalia galloped beyond the farthest boundaries of judicial propriety in secretly meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss the Constitution with Tea Party members of Congress saddled with a co-equal duty to assess the constitutionality of legislative action.

Instead, Mr. Reid appears to be once again reprising a rhetorical technique he has mastered over 25 years in the Senate: repeatedly needling his Republican adversaries in ways that often push the boundaries of political propriety.

Though the novel is not by nature a confessional form of literature, it can encompass confession, and breaking the boundaries of Victorian propriety, some of which Dickens himself had helped to put in place, was the revolutionary intention of novelists of the modern period like D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Then an appeals court reduced Phillips' cut, questioning whether his "aggregate bonanza, which comes to $4 million, exceeds the boundaries of professional propriety".