Sentence examples for is too decent from inspiring English sources

The characters lack surprise or self-contradiction (Cal is too decent, Katharine too wretched), and the play, while heartfelt, is stylistically quaint.

Fred Asbell, one of the board's two bosses, is too decent to pretend otherwise: "There does appear to be some duplication," he allows.

Although, as usual, I feel a little silly posting a commercial, this one from Verizon thanking their customers for sticking it out (whether they really did or not) is too decent to skip.

"Some people say I'm too decent to be President".

In your origins there were certain advantages; you were too decent to exploit them.

"I'm not too worried about being too decent," he said.

Yet she's too decent a woman to make fun of.

But even when the opportunity presents itself, they are too decent to practice that kind of guerrilla warfare.

Fourteen years ago, many of us who were close to Mr. Romney's Senate campaign in Massachusetts thought he was too decent for his own good.

Robin was duly taken in by a kindly record executive, who helped him find work with people who were too decent or fascinated to mention his obvious deficiencies.

As Lopez put it to Donald Honig: "Veeck once said that if I had a weakness as a manager, it was that I was too decent.