Sentence examples for figure of probity from inspiring English sources

He's a figure of probity in a corrupt, ruthless world of poseurs, mildly camp but essentially unaffected.

Racine's Schiller-like understanding of the corridors of power also emerges in two strongly contrasted supporting performances: Christopher Colquhoun as Britannicus's two-faced tutor becomes an emblem of self-promoting duplicity while Jude Akuwudike as Nero's adviser suggests a figure of probity appalled at the monster he has helped spawn.

Perhaps they should have been wary of bankrolling a film whose hero is a maverick contemptuous of power – a film in which it is not a figure of probity or discernment but a xenophobic murderer (Sam Waterston in a chilling portrait of entitlement) who announces, "unforced law is an invitation to anarchy".

I thought President Obama was very wise in his choices for his team of economic advisers: well-trained, centrist economists, bolstered by Paul Volcker, a towering figure of probity and wisdom.

Seymour Milstein was also something of a philanthropist, and a figure of irreproachable probity in his personal affairs.

But in these years he appears to us as a figure of strength, probity, and purpose, a voice of remembrance and an agent of renewal.

"Sure, that image of probity or authority is a lie, but people want to believe it".

REMNICK: A man of probity.

The purpose was to give a sense of probity.

Recent Recordings of Aspersions cast upon the Vernal Season by persons of probity and consequence.

For decades the Bank of Italy was an island of probity in an otherwise corrupt system.