Sentence examples for maintain propriety from inspiring English sources

During a recent trip to New York, to maintain propriety, I found I needed a new belt, size 34.

Meanwhile Quirk Books are attempting to repeat their success with the recently published Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Quirk £8.99, p344) by Ben H Winters. Here, the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are exiled to a small island off the Devonshire coast, where polite society does its best to maintain propriety in the face of terrors of the deep.

You can still maintain propriety in avoiding drab shades of gray and black and choosing more prismatic hues.

She was raised to care about clothes and looks and maintaining proprieties in an élite social milieu, and she spent her twenties and thirties dutifully playing the role for which she'd been bred, but she never stopped being the girl who made up stories.

If Labour wants to maintain its propriety and integrity while pocketing gifts from people like Desmond, it needs to establish a similar form of get-out, enabling Reid to say: "Yes, we stick with our ancient principles here, but that Desmond money went down the road to our campione, where those rules don't apply".

"People are not allowed to browse the museum at this hour," the security guard half-joked, cracking a smile, maintaining outward propriety but telegraphing a tolerance for misbehavior.

Maintaining Islamic proprieties was also important; ensuring interviewers were of an appropriate gender and having an accompanying male relative escort the lead interviewer when necessary, was appreciated and commented on favourably by many participants.

In the Neo-Confucian view, harmony was maintained by a reciprocal relationship of justice between a superior, who was urged to be benevolent, and a subordinate, who was urged to be obedient and to observe propriety.