Sentence examples for our propriety from inspiring English sources

Leonard Pitts Jr., a Miami Herald columnist, wrote recently that anonymity has made comment streams "havens for a level of crudity, bigotry, meanness and plain nastiness that shocks the tattered remnants of our propriety".

Forbes.com's tear sheets covering thousands of funds have most of the information you will need, from the basics like the manager's name, the fund's main holdings and performance record to our propriety ratings for a fund's tax efficiency, cost efficiency, and riskiness, as well as our A through F grade of its performance in both up and down markets.

"Employees question our accounting propriety consistently and constantly," she wrote.

Employees question our accounting propriety consistently and constantly.

They perform little narrative experiments on our morality, our sense of propriety and safety; they ask us to consider our realistic whole.

We've lowered our standards of propriety and morality till we realize we've been wallowing in it.

Her frankness about vibrators, pubic grooming and anal bleaching trades on shock, on the jolt it administers to our sense of propriety.

And he loves it – his jokes gain charge from the shock delivered to our sense of propriety, so what better than an environment in which they're even more "unsayable"?

But maybe we should question why our adherence to social propriety goes out the door and our willingness to hit below the belt spikes whenever we take a seat at our favorite team's ballgame.

And we would discover, democratically, our current views of propriety.

Although dogs don't really understand language in the way that humans do, I'm worried about the ethical propriety of our misleading ploy.