Sentence examples for lacking in propriety from inspiring English sources
It was The Daily Express that commissioned the original strip that became "Modesty Blaise," but it was canceled before it was published because the paper decided that a heroine from the underworld was lacking in propriety.
She had been lacking in motherly inhibitions and propriety and self-control.
Margaret Talbot's essay (The Way We Live Now, Dec. 10) on the journalistic propriety of criticizing Katherine Harris's appearance is predictably lacking in a discussion of the real issue, which is politics.
The agent's act lacks propriety, in the judgment of the spectator, if the spectator does not sympathise with the agent's performance.
Both the notion of sentiments as having or lacking an intrinsic propriety independently of their effects, and the arguments, in Books II and IV, against reducing our interest in justice and beauty to our interest in their useful effects, are meant to counteract the utilitarian tendencies in Hume.
Further studies are encouraged to analyze the therapeutic effect of different levels of estrogenic compounds, which lack feminine proprieties, on different setting of immune diseases.
While the media debates these matters and the public expects its MPs to, these weren't even discussed in two days of debate because of the way the government organised the guillotines, as I protested, with no consultation and without regard to the lack of propriety involved in seeing the elected house passing laws "on the nod".
Lucy tries to reconnect with her troubled sister, but Martha's lack of propriety or any sort of boundaries soon puts a strain on her sister's marriage.
I anxiously wanted to attend, but was sure the boundaries between bystander and family would be apparent, and worried about a lack of propriety.
