Sentence examples for propriety a from inspiring English sources
"How can you ask someone who created a transaction to investigate its propriety?" a lawyer asked.
When Katherine Farkas marries in July, in a small colonial village near Bogotá, Colombia, she plans to give propriety a tweak.
But the PM's mother, Mary, a member of the landed gentry class and thought to be the embodiment of discreet Home Counties propriety, a JP no less, recently indicated concern for the NHS.
The trait that Leader calls "aggression" — "explaining what it was like to be Kingsley Amis partly means explaining how he came to see and depict the world in this way, as suffused with violence, anger, threat" — can be seen as a protest against this stifling propriety, a determination to insist on the prerogatives of the self.
Mr. Bush is a model of gentlemanliness, manners and Episcopalian propriety, a true Yankee aristo; so his mortification the next day on reading the newspapers can be imagined.
She is a figurehead of rectitude and propriety; a cheerleader and a den mother who, even with her personal commitments to social crusades, must sublimate a certain amount of personal independence or iconoclasm for the sake of least impersonating a good political wife.
While ethicists debate propriety, an international black market thrives.
In life as in detective fiction, such fears are not unfounded, for as Summerscale points out, "the classic country-house murder is an assault on propriety, an aggressive exposure of base needs and desires".
But young as he is, he has conducted himself with a propriety and a judgment, in this his adopted country, which has rendered him a universal favourite.
Such reporters bring to the cable side a grounding in traditional network-news standards and proprieties, a set of norms rooted in the very beginnings of broadcast news.
It is now a convenient catchall that includes a vague and shifting notion of outdated proprieties, a system of "family values" championed by people who are often serially divorced and philandering, of hostility to every form of difference.
