Sentence examples for of ordinary decency from inspiring English sources

It didn't just transgress bounds of ordinary decency.

It also helps establish the life of ordinary decency Ruth has led.

Their first duty is to serve the people who are paying their salaries, so long as they stay within the law and the canons of ordinary decency.

In the face of Lanzmann's existential void and moral paradoxes, Nemes offers a tale of ordinary decency applied in indecent circumstances.

Assuming that they have also acted within the law, the next question is whether they have violated the standards of ordinary decency and distributive justice within the organisation.

Their hold on power is mitigated sometimes by their own clumsiness but more often by unheralded, stubborn acts of ordinary decency.

Filming that scene, McQueen seems not to know what to do at all; his technique seems to vanish into the ordinariness — the ordinary decency, outraged and horrified to the edge of madness — of his emotions.

Nice is not the same as "great" or "lovely" or even "sweet" — it's a category of well-pitched, ordinary decency, and a person who has niceness has everything.

"One has the right to expect ordinary decency even of a poet," he said.

And by such tales, multiplied many millionfold, let those few depraved people finally understand why their vision of inspired fear cannot prevail over ordinary decency.

Graham Swift's exquisite, brief Mothering Sunday (Scribner) shows love, lust and ordinary decency straining against the bars of an unjust English caste system.