Sentence examples for her propriety from inspiring English sources

More surprising is how convincingly her Margery erupts in sudden sexual abandon when Timothy, whose hormones are boiling out of control, seduces her into abandoning her propriety — not to mention those religious convictions — and participating in a bout of riotous, kinky sex.

But holding forth at her London studio, she dabbed at the corners of her mouth, perching or alternately rocking on the edge of her chair like a schoolgirl in a scratchy pinafore — her propriety evidently conceived to disarm the greatest cynics.

It is a rundown, abandoned restaurant 100 feet from Madame's property and her propriety -- about all there appears to be outside this village of old stone buildings, markets, and very French characters.

Ask the referees clear questions about her propriety, attitude and household behavior.

Perhaps a standup comedian, especially somebody as out there as Pryor, would appreciate her disregard for social propriety, her outrageousness, her loyalty to nothing but the workings of her own startlingly original mind.

Her aunt, by contrast, a domestic tyrant, dominates her easygoing (yet deceptive) husband with her imperious propriety.

Anna's "in-between" status strands her between enlightened progress (American medicine and the sharing of feelings) and her parents' propriety; between youth and middle age; between the lonely self-sufficiency of her life in New York, which she has convinced herself is fulfilling, and the unassailable structure and security of her parents' household.

A child prodigy, Fuller was reared by a father who focussed on cultivating her intellect to the detriment of, as he later ruefully admitted, her "female propriety".

Her rigorous propriety strikes one as psychologically astute; still she risked Henry's ire for her Catholic faith.

But even as the new governor attempted to begin with a clean slate, questions remain about her own propriety after it was revealed last month that she signed a letter written for her by Comcast, a major campaign contributor, in support of its business interests.

Ellen F. Davis looks at how organisms fit into their environment in her essay, "Propriety and Trespass: The Drama of Eating," drawing some conclusions for our current environmental situation and its (un)sustainability.