Sentence examples for decency calls from inspiring English sources

Writing about disgrace and shame and humiliation can have a unique power, one John Updike evoked in his novel "Villages" (2004), when he described the best thing about sex: "The parts of ourselves conventional decency calls shameful are exalted".

"However, while we do not expect an apology from the special interests that made horrendous accusations without any facts, decency calls for their silence in light of the grand jury's decision".

This blog will also discuss English usage, with good examples singled out and offenders against clarity and decency called out.

"Why didn't he have the decency to call and tell me?" he said.

Kenneth Turkel, a lawyer for Hogan, told jurors Gawker editors had not even had the "common decency" to call Hogan for comment before they posted the video.

Additionally, if you're going to make multiple reservations on the same night, have the decency to call the place and cancel.

The law wants more -- it wants the cops to catch bad guys, all right, but it wants them to do it fairly, with convincing evidence that they have gathered while respecting the minimal standards of decency we call "rights".

The game industry gave me no heat at all over this but the ratings and decency crowd called me a coward.

And that should be the red line for every person who has the decency of calling themselves a human being.

But in today's dating world, he wouldn't even have the decency to call or send you a blow off text.

Instead of either using common sense as early as Monday when the Hurricane struck or listening to those calling for the race to be cancelled early on, he instead dragged the controversy past the point of decency and called off the event Friday evening when anyone from outside of New York would have had to fully commit to the expenditures to be in the city.