Sentence examples for great rectitude from inspiring English sources

"A man of great rectitude, who thinks clearly and writes well," says Fabius.

During his 11-year directorship, Kurt Masur, a musician of great rectitude with a strict Teutonic rehearsal regimen, was unable to foster associations with living American composers and had no real gift for attracting young audiences.

In the second case, because the death of Husayn marked the loss of a figure of great rectitude and devotion - Husayn is the third imam of Shiism, after Ali and Husayn's elder brother Hasan Ibn Ali.

Presumably, we can with great legal rectitude report that Down Under the reaction was not entirely devoid of the suspicion that Australia had lost in something rather less than a fair fight.

He added that editorials urging greater moral rectitude on the part of the political class had been surfacing "for some time now".

But Italy, perhaps because its overall debt level was already so high and its population was older, pursued a policy of greater fiscal rectitude than its neighbors and avoided a real estate bubble.

Politicians have ignored demands for greater transparency, moral rectitude and a significant reduction in political spending, he said.

Mr Obama wants to bring greater transparency and legal rectitude to the way America goes about eliminating its foes, while Mr Brennan appears to want to hand over the operation of lethal drones to the Pentagon.

Even when he was younger, Kurt Masur seemed the embodiment of the Old World conductor, a German musician of discipline and rectitude, steeped in the great repertory, technically assured and immune to flashiness.

Even the great Sir Stanley Matthews, a model of rectitude in his personal habits, saw nothing wrong with endorsing the weed, attributing his "smooth ball control" to the "smoothness of Craven A".

There's also something about his unfulfilled daughter (Lili Taylor) and her relationship problems, but the story runs on Schiller's embattled rectitude and the fantasy that great writers embody a lost gentility of austere habits too sacred to be sullied by mere carnality.