Sentence examples for proper affair from inspiring English sources

The Young Concert Artists gala at Alice Tully Hall is usually a proper affair, with talented rising artists playing the standard repertory with assurance.

KT Tunstall, Saving My Face (Relentless) KT is, according to the chorus (a proper affair with words a infant could master), "losing her memories" and "saving her face", which is a clever trick to pull off.

It's true that we have an unhealthy interest in personality politics and gossip, and this diminishes proper affairs of state.

To my mind, AM subscribers come across as faux-sexual libertines – too wussy, miserly and/or timid to either have a proper, full-blown affair or hire a sex worker.

Nor is the coffee and walnut loaf in Annie Bell's Baking Bible, which uses groundnut oil for a sliceable texture more akin to banana bread than a classic sandwich, or the coffee and walnut torte in Linda Collister's Great British Bake Off showstoppers book, which, with its breadcrumbs and whipped egg whites, is far too delicate for my purposes – a proper after-dinner affair.

Estate mansions are a great backdrop for creating this style of wedding, although in June we are transforming a loft space into a proper black tie affair (Gatsby himself would be proud!).

Now, obviously, this didn't happen, but Sturgeon really did step up to the decks as part of an announcement over new government measures to tackle child poverty.

To the extent that thinking about politics was necessarily uncertain, the proper conduct of affairs depended upon an honest as well as a capacious mind, and on a well-disposed management of words.

It is not showing what should be at the heart of the affair: a proper sense of outrage at Mandelson, Osborne and Rothschild's belief that the tame oligarchs of a dangerous autocracy are no better or worse than other industrialists.

He asked for proper autonomy in domestic affairs, with constitutional protection of liberties and a democratically elected chief executive.

The conclusion is that the biology of the living planet has yet to reach its proper place in human affairs.