Sentence examples for principles of propriety from inspiring English sources
The report concluded that almost half the money "was spent fruitlessly, breaching established principles of propriety".
2. Legg has decided that "fundamental principles of propriety" are more important than the rules.
According to Zhou, the sage, or superior man, reacts to external phenomena according to the principles of propriety, humanity, righteousness, wisdom, faithfulness, and tranquillity.
But he has also delved into the Green Book to come up with some "fundamental principles of propriety" and Legg has decided to use these to decide what claims are allowable.
His wife, Aline, as Wendy Barealizesson realizes her, is one of Ibsen's most pitiable victims, reduced to a cypher not only by her husband's manipulations but also by her own unexamined principles of propriety and moral duty.
These are: (a) claims not supported by documentary evidence, such as mortgage interest payments; (b) claims that were in breach of the Green Book rules; and (c) – and this is the controversial category – claims incompatible with his "fundamental principles of propriety".
He devised principles of congruity, propriety, and perspicuity: an elevated subject, for instance, must be expressed in elevated language; sound and signification should be in concordance; a woman was most attractive when in distress; depicted misfortunes must never occur by chance.
Granted; and yet the principle of dramatic propriety may take us further than would first appear.
To conclude thus may seem to weight the principle of dramatic propriety with more than it can bear.
Many of the older generation of critics based their decisions on aprioristic or rigidly analogical principles of elegance and propriety, while the canons of modern criticism are based on historical studies of language and style.
The mean scores of the four basic principles of sound evaluation (utility, propriety, feasibility and accuracy) show that evaluation systems do not correspond to major faculty responsibilities and are inconsistently addressed during faculty evaluations.
