The young Austen clearly felt a frisson in having a protagonist who, in the privacy of her correspondence, openly scorned codes of propriety and morality.
Chaplin not only delights in the refinement of ancien-régime manners but sharply contrasts them with the undignified pratfalls that result from efforts to conform to codes of propriety.
Written words, like ammunition loaded into this strange Uzi of a book, are fired in a desperate assault on ideological codes of propriety and morality, on all dictated and regulated norms of sexuality, politics and literature.
*PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF SUNDANCE INSTITUTE * When, even as late as the nineteen-eighties, journalism was for the most part constrained by codes of propriety and tacit accords of silence — for instance, shielding politicians from reporting on their extramarital affairs — fiction remained the crucial forum for expressing the inexpressible.
When, even as late as the nineteen-eighties, journalism was for the most part constrained by codes of propriety and tacit accords of silence for instance, shielding politicians from reporting on their extramarital affairs fiction remained the crucial forum for expressing the inexpressible.
When, even as late as the nineteen-eighties, journalism was for the most part constrained by codes of propriety and tacit accords of silence — for instance, shielding politicians from reporting on their extramarital affairs — fiction remained the crucial forum for expressing the inexpressible.
Trained from an early age to defend their positions at the family dinner table, they refused to be silenced by codes of female propriety upon entering the wider world.
It's the only overtly salacious thing about a film which effortlessly maintains its own code of formality and propriety.
pay, but chiefly as a symptom of collapsing codes of behavior and propriety.
