Sentence examples for essentially decent from inspiring English sources
With some notable exceptions, many of the communists I knew seemed to be essentially decent and intelligent people.
The film can't decide if Beatty is supposed to be an unstoppable babe-magnet or an essentially decent monogamist.
Resourceful and essentially decent, she is nonetheless unable to fully comprehend the intensity of other people's emotions.
For Verdi, "Simon Boccanegra" offered a chance to explore flawed, fatalistic and struggling characters, especially Simon, a former pirate, who is a willful, imperious yet essentially decent man.
He imagines socialism, nationalism and imperial liberalism as siblings, born out of an essentially decent, meliorist 19th-century impulse, and all vulnerable to horrifying moral corruption.
Inman's odyssey covers a couple of months as winter draws on and he undergoes a series of vividly realised encounters that challenge and harden this essentially decent man.
But he winds up sounding like an essentially honest, decent guy.
Essentially a decent man with a tough streak, he took a pragmatic decision and shelved the decency.
The eccentric ancestor who refused a fortune, out of stubbornness, or from other, hazier, essentially quite decent reasons.
Essentially a decent man (he went to the Sudan to help Gibbons, along with Conservative peer Baroness Warsi off his own back), he is president of a victim support group and a trustee of the British Heart Foundation.
