Sentence examples for edge of propriety from inspiring English sources

Like many who seek to entertain, he'll go to the edge of propriety for a laugh.

So I suppose we can feel assured that this loitering at the edge of propriety is not done heedlessly.

Every campaign has a moment when it goes too far, or walks something right up to the edge of propriety.

The publication of Hermann Göring's personal art log lets us peer over the edge of propriety into the eccentric private life of a monster.

In the case of "Le Catalogue Goering," it can seem perilously titillating to peer over the edge of propriety into the eccentric private life of a monster.

He has pretty much ignored the conflict-of-interest questions inherent in such a duchy; he tests the limits as he goes along, skirts along the edge of propriety and greets each day with brio.

When they first come in, I buy a pound of them per person, boil them or steam them as the mood strikes, being careful to push them just beyond the edge of culinary propriety — cooking them just until they sag when lifted.

Contributing to the premodern atmosphere are the throwing of slop to pigs, the carting around of a child's dead body wrapped in a blanket and the prominent presence of two gaslit brothels, which also allows for nudity that goes right to the edge of basic-cable propriety.

"Time to take it too far, yo," he says at one point, keenly aware that he's exploring the edges of pop-music propriety.

It offends his sense of propriety.

At this, Coleridge suffered a rare fit of propriety.