But this normality was, as we all recognized, a wonderful thing: Portugal had emerged from a long, troubled history to become part of the basic decency of the European social model.
What this lawsuit would give them is some kind of closure and the basic decency that the CIA has denied them for so long by just making him disappear".
A manipulative, deeply emotional film, it's openly committed to a belief in the basic decency of mankind, unafraid of an accusation of sentimentality and unabashed in its inspirational aim of drawing people together in a form of communion.
There's plenty of depressing news, but there's also the basic decency of most people, which is easy to forget about when you drench yourself in cable news or partisan web sites.
But it has managed to limit both the rise in unemployment and the suffering of the most vulnerable; the social safety net has survived intact, as has the basic decency of its society.
The wife truly believed in the basic decency of the North Korean system and wrote to the leadership to protest the debauchery.
Her philosophy is that of the ardent pragmatist – a pragmatist in the true sense, someone who believes in the basic decency and innate ability of people.
Richard Prince is a pioneer in this field though he balances on the razor edge of the most basic decency in his efforts.
Whether Lanthimos really thinks that things are better for those who are neither tyrants nor their victims nor their dependents is unclear; there isn't more than a hint of the world beyond the compound, though a colleague's friendly approach to the boss suggests the prevalence of a basic decency that the father spurns, and, above all, deprives his children of.
"When you have caused offence and distress to other people, even if it doesn't end up in the hands of the police or the courts, basic decency suggests you should apologise," the deputy prime minister told ITV's Daybreak.
