Sentence examples for feeling of decency from inspiring English sources

Consider the Nietzsche who asks: "Where has the last feeling of decency and self-respect gone when even our statesmen, an otherwise quite unembarrassed type of man, anti-Christians through and through in their deeds, still call themselves Christians today and attend communion?" (A 38).

Some, but probably not all, will have been motivated by a sense of decency, and the feeling that a 20% pay rise for a boss whose company had just made gigantic losses and sacked thousands of people did not look good.

Whether the modern virtues of fellow feeling and decency (efficacious in social life) can by themselves constitute a significant force in the political realm is the question Wood's analysis raises.

In short, the film is a stacked deck of decency and good feelings; everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

The moments of decency and fellow-feeling seem to have been carefully rationed by the director with a motive that seems curiously punitive: because these people show so little sympathy for one another, they will not receive much from him.

Those liquid, burden-of-decency basset-hound eyes.

Someone should pull together a major movie for this actor, because he's great at playing heels with a vagrant streak of decency — say, a lounge lizard with feelings, an uncomfortably adulterous husband.

Shorina told me that it marked the moment when the state "stopped feeling shame, stopped trying to explain its actions, stopped trying to keep to the bounds of decency".

No one with a shred of decency would claim that her professors, some of whom certainly shared the feelings of the Concerned Alumni, were handing out "A's" to her as a gift.

So many ideas of decency and fair-mindedness were brutalized during those three days, and so many feelings of anger and resentment were exposed, that it became almost a therapeutic necessity to invent a narrative that might give some meaning to events that were being experienced as a kind of psychic explosion.

No matter her level of anger or feelings of betrayal — understandable and even common in situations like yours — her actions, I'm afraid, cross the line of decency.