Sentence examples for have decency from inspiring English sources

In Warlock, Anthony Quinn chides Henry Fonda, his great friend, saying, "You have decency mixed up", and those words are a key to all these films, operating as they do in a morally confused world, where men (such as Warlock's Richard Widmark) may find their goodness through taking part in a massacre, and the man who upholds the law is just as likely to break it.

Yet he has decency on his side, and the tale he tells is more shaded than "Gallipoli," which settled for an uncluttered vision of Australian youth, alone and unsupported, being led to the slaughter by intolerant British fools.

Have some decency.

But he should have the decency to leave".

Shouldn't Kate Moss have the decency to decompose?

They didn't even have the decency to blush.

And he did not even have the decency to admit his guilt.

Then again, I did not have the decency to put on real clothes today.

Strauss-Kahn "should have the decency to shut up," Sarkozy told Le Parisien.

And if I do, I at least have the decency to have an existential fit about it.

Sometimes putting things off makes sense: the silliest impositions on our time occasionally have the decency to self-combust.