Sentence examples for idea of propriety from inspiring English sources

Even then, the flaunting of well-proportioned flesh does not fall within every Indian's idea of propriety.

Worse, they seem more interested in enforcing their idea of propriety than in promoting students' education.

In fact it is from such eruptions that a civilization learns; and its notions of order, its constraints on passion and its ideas of propriety shape war in turn.

Of course, identifying abusive language is easy when it oversteps existing ideas of propriety so far that the suffering it generates is "objective" or felt by most, and when the intention to insult is explicit.

This is a period of history when ideas of social propriety were especially divergent for males and females of the middle and upper classes, the chief consumers of the fine arts.

It is distinct from the idea of validity as moral propriety, i.e. a sound justification for respecting the norm.

Lindgren, creator of such memorable characters as Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump; 1945), was noted for employing complex ideas and unconventional characters in a genre that historically had been constrained by conceptions of propriety and the idea that children possess only a limited understanding of the world.

But his aides said they had no idea they had crossed any lines of propriety.

Another philosopher proposes to apply this idea of suspending the usual rules of propriety to save something else from drowning the entire Empire!

They have dropped any lingering hold that ideas of correctness or propriety had on Murray.

During the Renaissance the renewed interest in Classical learning and values had an important effect on English literature, as on all the arts; and ideas of Augustan literary propriety in the 18th century and reverence in the 19th century for a less specific, though still selectively viewed, Classical antiquity continued to shape the literature.