Sentence examples for goodness and decency from inspiring English sources

To stay active in our public life so it reflects the goodness and decency and optimism that I see in the American people every single day.

Erstwhile acquaintances, while deeply admiring of the Bushes' goodness and decency, have trouble recalling early signs of greatness in the son.

You could console yourself with the notion that after all is said and done, goodness and decency still flicker like candles in a distant window.

He had seen his friend Soderini forfeit Florence by refusing to limit the freedoms ultimately employed against him by his enemies; that is, by trusting that goodness and decency could triumph over the implacable vices and envious designs of men.

But more broadly, this haughty trust-me attitude why can't we escape these pestering questions and run on our own obvious goodness and decency?—extends to the rest of Mr. Romney's campaign.

The mistakes of the poor make them society's problems, and the way they are then targeted for moral obloquy is one of the greatest inequalities of all.' What really stood out for me was the book's hopeful side: the goodness and decency that stand against coarseness and greed.

"The only way that we advance the issues that people around the country care about is if we sync up the spirit and the goodness and the decency of the American people with our politics," he said, according to remarks released by the White House.

The absolute absence of anger and of politics from their response the wife's fear, the husband's desire to get the door fixed in order not to attract copycats is exemplary of the bland goodness and almost unearthly decency of this model couple, who seem like living counter-arguments to Rousseau's notion that artistic culture doesn't entail moral virtue.

There is an innate quality in him that has something to do with goodness, with decency, and with kindness, that no amount of acting can hide, and in The Lake House, freed of the sci-fi/action corset the actor often trusses himself up in, that quality is allowed to breathe.

What I've seen of this country and its people and their goodness, their decency, as president of the United States.

The archbishop said, "The word this morning is one of light and hope and life and faith and newness and mercy and decency and goodness".