Sentence examples for its rectitude from inspiring English sources

Cognizance of one's own good works is something akin to the good will; it is to know what is right and do what is right for the right reason: because it is right, taking joy in its rectitude.

For all the craft in the music, it's hard to resist poking fun at its rectitude.

The progressive era still had a Victorian culture, with its rectitude and restrictions.

The answer to this question lies the account of the genesis of the human moral act and the conditions for its rectitude.

The pro-life cause (and the Republican platform that parrots it) has staked its moral rectitude on the belief that life begins at conception.

A country that had just lost the trust of investors in its fiscal rectitude could scarcely build a credible monetary system from scratch.

Loury's plea for a more socially conscious public policy and "social vision" seems so earnest in its moral rectitude as to be almost quixotic.

Perhaps unsurprisingly in a country known for its fiscal rectitude, public opinion has supported Mr. Schaüble because of the rising public debt.

But for all its tasteful rectitude and obvious reverence for the movie, Mr. Woodruff's "Autumn Sonata" exposes the overwrought, overexplicit Freudianism of the material, nearly tipping it into parody at times.

They insist that the party is showing its fiscal rectitude by fighting with the unions over backing public sector pay curbs and pledging a post-election "zero-based" spending review (that is, one which starts from zero rather than starting with asking whether to cut existing budgets).

Besides, what really made her story work was its moral rectitude, the notion that good people escape adversity simply because they are good, a concept that does not hold up at all well these days.