His life, like his work, exemplifies order, continuity, decency, lasting values.
For me as for so many others, you have set the standard for integrity, decency and values that matter.
Family, friends and colleagues have lost an exemplar of decency, precious values and enormous strength through adversity.
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, the deputy prime minister said the claims showed a "total collapse of decency and values in the way part of the press conduct themselves".
If they had thrown their support behind a person with decency and values, that would feel different.
In fact, "fairness" and "decency" are values which would seem to be more closely related to "kindness," so we might discuss how if life oftentimes is not fair, it is our duty, our mission, as kind and decent people to try to do whatever we can to make it so.
It inspired me and renewed my faith in the decency and value of a profession that often seems drenched in bloody voyeurism and world-weary posturing.
Lewis, in his own movies (such as his first, "The Bellboy"), is a radical democrat — his eternal child is a beleaguered and overlooked Everyman whose essential decency and value are misunderstood, derided, or ignored in a world of vanity and self-interest.
But her totemic prominence, as the only ordinary woman who has ever even met politicians, has the whiff of the amusing stunt about it, and is perhaps a sign of how little, not how much, ordinary wisdom and speak-your-mind decency is valued in our politics.
Screen paragon of American decency and homespun values.
