Sentence examples for perfect propriety from inspiring English sources

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But in Trafalgar Square shocking manners are less conspicuous; it is, after all, a popular haunt for foreigners and an even more popular haunt for pigeons, and who can observe perfect propriety in amongst so much filth and feather-flutter?

"There is much work women can do on a farm with perfect propriety," Laura Clay, a bluegrass farmer and veteran suffragist was quoted as saying in The New York Times on Nov. 18, 1917.

No sound comes from outside, nor does any sound escape, so Short can sit before the baby grand in his living room at three in the morning and pound and shout with perfect propriety.

There's an adorable little girl who behaves with perfect propriety at all times that is her central concern.

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Judi Dench is also the perfect embodiment of outraged propriety as the heroine's mother.

The Greek philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa (flourished c. ad 100), writing centuries after Pythagoras but clearly in his philosophical debt, stated that perfect numbers represented "virtues, wealth, moderation, propriety, and beauty".

The conclusion is that the illustrated process shows as by knowing the analysis to be performed on the data it is possible to transform the original data in a different form (by aggregations) and find a representation that both contains all the proprieties useful for obtaining a perfect analytical result and preserves the user privacy.

The supporting cast is excellent, especially David Costabile as a lyrical old salt who evokes the mysticism of O'Neill's earlier sea plays (and is dismissed as a dead man by Yank) and Becky Ann Baker, as Mildred's tart, propriety-conscious aunt, who is a perfect ringer for some society dames I could name.

What propriety!

Propriety, however, bred boredom.

Cue the propriety police!

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