Sentence examples for by propriety from inspiring English sources
Historical criticism in China was constrained by propriety because of the high cultural value of ancestors; anything like the contentiousness of the Greeks would have been regarded as most unseemly (see below Greek historiography).
A lack of restraint is perhaps the best response to Ishiguro's novel, which is the tale of a man so burdened by propriety that he lets the love of his life slip through his fingers.
Whether she's singing of an illicit affair with Matt Damon or facetiously intimidating Jewish grandparents who don't vote for Barack Obama, Sarah Silverman, right, has never been constrained by propriety or good taste.
These two threads – order versus chaos, impulse balanced by propriety – pursue each other through his fiction as through his life, intertwining and grappling down the pathways of his novels.
Light, as from a window in a Vermeer painting, and 17th-century lute music composed by Denis Gaultier summon a culture in which a private moment between a man and a woman (Steven Melendez and Rie Ogura, both excellent) is governed by propriety.
By way of response, I commend to you the National Theatre's new production of "Phèdre," which returns to the stage Helen Mirren, best-known of late for giving us a celluloid Queen Elizabeth II hemmed in by propriety, this time playing an Athenian queen who takes a decidedly improper interest in her stepson.
More often, standups raise hackles not by Gervais-level crassness, but by sacrificing propriety in their race to be funniest first when news breaks.
Its realism and brutality know none of the limits propagated in Hollywood in those days by Hays Code propriety, and in later years by the self-censorious sensibilities of Steven Spielberg and company.
The plays portray the family as self-indulgent social climbers masked by bourgeois propriety.
It is not caused by "bourgeois propriety," the lack of mystery in men or representations in popular culture.
Then called Beatrix Jones, she had been born in 1872 into New York society and shaped by Victorian propriety and early feminism.
