Sentence examples for note of decency from inspiring English sources

This insidious note of decency depresses us.

He ended with a shout-out to Tracy Morgan, who's recovering from a tour-bus crash; this was a welcome note of decency.

He was a superb Antonio in Noble's unforgettable The Duchess of Malfi (Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins as Bosola) at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 1981; instead of the usual dry old stick, he found new notes of decency and bubbling ambition in the steward-turned-lover role.

The prosecution case was essentially that obscenity was obscenity, wherever it took place; theatre could not be allowed a sick-note from the principles of decency.

In her dissent on Thursday, Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Carmen E. Espinosa took issue with language in the majority opinion about how the death penalty "no longer comports with evolving standards of decency," noting that, "there is nothing that requires that the standards of decency evolve only in one direction".

On his watch the F.C.C. was noted for its tough enforcement of decency standards.

Those liquid, burden-of-decency basset-hound eyes.

But turning to the concept of "community standards" of decency in defining pornography, they noted the virtual impossibility of a Web site meeting the standards of, say, Chicago, Amsterdam and Tehran at the same time.

The courts do take note of the popular will when they survey state laws to discern the evolving standards of decency, and over the years they have fashioned "saner, stricter legal regimes" for many seemingly clear-cut constitutional rights.

Kabluey t is one of those quiet gems that not only has wit and heart, but ends on a rare note of -- dare I say it -- decency.

Thresholds of decency?