For Brooklyn, the pretext, I suppose, is to provide an American public with some historical perspective on civic propriety and censorship, "Sensation" being the unspoken context.
You don't think about historical context or social propriety, because the only vital information you are hoping to impart is where you're at and how you look.
First Ladies have historically exuded refinement and propriety.
Historical criticism in China was constrained by propriety because of the high cultural value of ancestors; anything like the contentiousness of the Greeks would have been regarded as most unseemly (see below Greek historiography).
"I believe nothing of any beauty or truth comes of a piece of writing without the author's thinking he has sinned against something – propriety, custom, faith, privacy, tradition, political orthodoxy, historical fact, literary convention, or indeed, all the prevailing standards together".
Many of the older generation of critics based their decisions on aprioristic or rigidly analogical principles of elegance and propriety, while the canons of modern criticism are based on historical studies of language and style.
Historical scholarship has disclosed the origins, rise, development, and decline of these structures in the past and thus suggests the propriety of changes in the present and future that appear to fulfill the needs of the community and its members.
Cue the propriety police!
Propriety, however, bred boredom.
