Sentence examples for direction of decency from inspiring English sources
I say we can afford to take a small, overdue step in the direction of decency.
It is a profoundly depressing image that Jamaica's leaders desperately want to lose and now, in Powell, there is a chance to use his achievement to take a huge step in the direction of decency.
Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom.
He added, "Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom".
"As the majority recognizes, there is nothing that requires that the standards of decency evolve only in one direction," she wrote.
Those liquid, burden-of-decency basset-hound eyes.
It would be a move in the direction of "the wages of decent living" — a performance, one might say, of decency itself.
In her dissent on Thursday, Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Carmen E. Espinosa took issue with language in the majority opinion about how the death penalty "no longer comports with evolving standards of decency," noting that, "there is nothing that requires that the standards of decency evolve only in one direction".
You offenders of decency.
This insidious note of decency depresses us.
