Sentence examples for concern for propriety from inspiring English sources

They won't talk about him on the record, out of concern for propriety, ongoing business dealings, or non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements they signed when they left.

He employed close-ups with discretion, as if he were declining to violate the privacy of his characters out of a concern for bourgeois propriety.

It makes sense when you watch it, of course, but that's the pleasure of True Blood – its gleeful lack of concern for understatement, propriety and doing things by halves.

On the other end of the scale, courtesy and gentility imply going out of one's way to demonstrate a delicate concern for the proprieties, and are perhaps more concerned with looking right than in showing any empathy.

She doesn't care much for propriety, preferring to flout conventional wisdom.

I have kept nothing back necessary to understanding". In fact he held a number of things back, out of a sense of propriety and a concern for national security.

We were unable to extinguish the lust for propriety.

His concern with propriety extended to the correct way to eat and prepare pasta.

This rules out a host of formats invented by vendors for propriety purposes.

Mr Lebed, a stickler for propriety, will have fun with that, come election time.

It turned out that her skirt was too snug for propriety.