Sentence examples for notions of decency from inspiring English sources

Disrespect for bourgeois notions of decency was precisely the point.

Granted, many of our laws are antiquated in the face of the "evolving notions of decency".

Beauvoir and Sartre had no interest in varnishing the facts out of respect for bourgeois notions of decency.

Our Constitution speaks to a majority and to a minority and to rights woven from notions of decency and justice.

"The practice, if documented, violates acceptable notions of decency, as well as legal and moral standards for patient health care," Mr. McGreevey said in an interview.

He continues: "We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity.

Set beside the usual pattern of life in late-20th-century Britain, the spirit of Neil Hannon's childhood was, in essence, genteel Victorian: school, hymn-singing, parlour, church and a firm belief in the notion of "decency".

James Urquhart in The Independent pronounced the novel to be "a timely challenge to reinvigorate our notions of civilized decency".

Hence what one sees as increased public displays of affection is merely the inevitable effect of an increasing number of young couples in urban India, who, because of an antiquated legal system with ill-defined notions of "public decency," unfortunately find themselves unable to have safe spaces of their own.

Thes article originally appeared on VICE UK.

James Urquhart of The Independent called the book "a powerful piece of art", writing: "Besides sharp, witty dialogue, an emotionally charged plot and the vivid characters' ethical struggles, The Other Hand delivers a timely challenge to reinvigorate our notions of civilised decency".