Sentence examples for point of propriety from inspiring English sources

Franklin replied with a mix of apology and flattery: "In not consulting you before they were signed, we have been guilty of neglecting a point of propriety.

Ms. Dutcher, too, felt the need to maintain a level of propriety.

On the one hand the set of points where propriety fails has measure 1 under P. On the other hand we have that P(a(w)|A)(w) = 0, when propriety requires that P(a(w)|A)(w) = 1.

Going beyond mingjiao does not mean leaving the world behind in this context; again, the point is not renunciation, but radical change, by reorienting one's sense of propriety and value.

The interviewer, Martin Bashir, at one point questioned the propriety of a middle-aged man sharing a bed or bedroom with children not related to him.

It offends his sense of propriety.

At this, Coleridge suffered a rare fit of propriety.

Does that kind of communal voice of propriety still exist?

There was a disregard of the facts and of propriety.

I've never given much thought to the difference between English notions of propriety and Dutch notions of propriety.

The conservatory also reminds visitors of changing views of propriety.