Sentence examples similar to proof of propriety from inspiring English sources

Far more important, though, Mr. Lieberman's oration, suffused as it was with a religious man's sense of propriety, offered proof that a Jew in modern America need not diminish his faith as the price of worldly achievement or consider such faith alone a replacement for the crucible of public life.

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.

Unauthored, unpredictable, indifferent to human notions of propriety and consequence.

Who can define "current recognised standards of propriety"?

The conservatory also reminds visitors of changing views of propriety.

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

These principles together amount to a general requirement of propriety.