Sentence examples for in the rectitude from inspiring English sources

For to take the opposite view today is to resemble a manufacturer who, running at a loss, decides to raise his price, and when his declining sales increase the loss, wrapping himself in the rectitude of plain arithmetic, decides that prudence requires him to raise the price still more.

In the American legal system, one is theoretically presumed innocent until proved guilty and our mythology around fair play makes most of us trust in the rectitude of the legal process.

But Bataille might also have emphasized school, for school is work, too — work before the adult workplace — and school tutors the adolescent in repression and the rectitude of the bourgeois order, at the very moment in life when, temperamentally and biologically, one is most Dionysiac and most enraged by the hypocritical ordinances of the parental league.

Jake still sees the rectitude in that defense, and warms himself, a bit excessively, in the reverence of the local black community.

But the rectitude comes in handy as Berenson digs in his heels.

It was Enron more than any of the other big corporate fraud that ushered in the current era of corporate rectitude in America, encouraged not least by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a controversial set of stringent new laws governing company accounts and corporate governance.

Perhaps we no longer believe in the moral rectitude of working to improve the lot of those who have nothing.

While it may be said that both Kennedys were beginning to actually believe in the moral rectitude of civil rights, no aggressive manoeuvring was employed to get the legislation past southern opposition.

Because God's will is not determined by God's knowing that an action is the best, our certainty that God will do what is best is due to our confidence in "the unalterable Rectitude of his Will" and not a necessity of his nature (D 86 87, W 573).

Think of how resoundingly photographs recording the liberation of Auschwitz affirmed the rectitude of American involvement in World War II.

The speech is also noteworthy for its self-righteousness, messianic fervor and dogmatic certitude in the speaker's rectitude: Everybody is chaff except the winnowed wheat.