Sentence examples for moral decorum from inspiring English sources

Depicting a naked, fat, old woman close to life-size with near-photographic verisimilitude not just once but twice — standing to the left and sitting on a bed to the right — Rivers violated a squeamish high culture's rules of visual and moral decorum.

Armah has pushed the efficacy of the "master-text" to greater heights by a more audacious attack on "massive political improbity". A Man of the People is held back by a subdued manner and "some sort of moral decorum". The intertextual distance is even more striking when Ogede compares Achebe's No Longer at Ease (1960) to Bessie Head's Maru (1971).

Now Mark Ravenhill, whose Shopping and Fucking (1996), about  the sexual, economic and chemical exploitation of the young, was a full-frontal assault on moral certitudes and dramatic decorum, has written Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat,  a cycle of 16 short epic plays first presented at breakfast time at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and now unfolding on stages across London.

The circumstances that will interest me here are often thought to be the domain of manners or decorum, rather than morals proper.

These discriminations, so finely made by Brookner, are important because of the general point that theories of aesthetic decorum are expressions of moral, social, religious and political allegiance.

But in an unmistakable allusion Fini spoke of "moral decay" caused by a "loss of decorum and rigour in the behaviour of those who, as public figures, are required to set an example".

Trump is a moral void who couldn't care less about decency, decorum, convention or rules.

Warren Hoge (NYT) ITALY: GAYS AND CHURCH AT ODDS Concerned that a gay pride conference July 1-9 in Rome could clash with the Holy Year mood, Msgr. Ennio Antonelli, secretary of the Italian Bishops Conference, said the church regards homosexuality as "a moral disorder" and asked Italian officials to maintain Rome's "decorum".

The postmistress, Dorcas Lane (who was also the owner of the adjoining smithy), was an unconventional career woman, modern in her moral views, but with old-fashioned good taste and a high sense of decorum.

Like anything else, digital spaces will benefit civic health when they powered by decorum, powered by a sense of conversation that is not only attentive to moral engagement, but to a good sense of humor as well.

This is partly a matter of his complete disregard for decorum: his satire is based at least as much in personal loathing as in moral vision.