Sentence examples for decent self from inspiring English sources

Sometimes I thought it was only because she stabbed that she could play the part of her sweet, decent self so well".

"Also decent, self-deprecating, and funny".

Still, when decent self-tanners hit the market, I jumped.

However, "Laws of Attraction" is no decent, self-respecting movie, so that is exactly what we get.

Russo's latest protagonist is Lou C. Lynch, a large, decent, self-consciously simple man whose quiet mindfulness and basic optimism are easily mistaken for dull-witted naïveté.

These days, no decent, self-respecting movie wants to be caught peddling the myth of the Irish as honey-tongued, hard-drinking muddleheads.

Its portrait of people who see themselves as decent, self-righteously trying to eradicate another culture, has the impact of a swift, hard slap in the face.

The moral society, based on decent self-interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self-regard.

He cracked some decent self-deprecating jokes, directly addressing public mockery of his looks, and of the ambition that led him to challenge his own older brother for the party leadership a year ago.

It is meant in part for men like Mr. Jones -- decent, self-analyzing husbands, boyfriends and fathers, who are doing their best to assist in the stewardship of households and families.

He liked to think of himself as standing at the head of a great army of decent, self-reliant merchants, artisans, farmers, and business proprietors who could protect the country from the exploitative trusts, on the one hand, and the proto-revolutionary immigrant masses, on the other, but who needed the right governmental instruments with which to do so.