Sentence examples for capacity for decency from inspiring English sources
The storyline offers a kind of redemption: the possibility that, however culpable and corrupt the East German nation became through its complicity with the Stasi, a tiny but imperishable capacity for decency - even at the highest, chilliest levels of the secret police - was what finally consigned the regime to history.
"The key is to remember that almost everyone has the capacity for empathy and decency — and to tend that seed as best as we possibly can," she maintains.
You can laugh at her, but her meek capacity for joy, her decency in a world that can't see her, is a flag planted, as bright as lipstick.
Why is his capacity for basic human decency so exceptional?
For all its characters' weaknesses, it believes in their essential decency and capacity for love -- and for a good deal of the time it makes us believers, too.
The capacity for grand feeling and courageous decency that the three main characters display is like a thumb in the eye of the high-minded, neutered and ultimately murderous republicanism of the island's political rulers.
He wanted to stand for decency.
Pixelated, occasionally, for decency's sake.
Eventually, though, the company's executives decided they couldn't afford decency for decency's sake.
He stands for decency, for the rights of man.
