Sentence examples for propriety as from inspiring English sources

(If the servants happen to overhear, there are questions of propriety as well).

Everyone is hilariously unconcerned with bourgeois habits of cleanliness and propriety as well as the anxieties of consumerism and status.

But Double Bind never quite compares to the transgressive jolt of Pretend You're Actually Alive, its outright assault on propriety as well as its inherent bigger question: does the semblance of art make it acceptable to photograph your mother having sex?

Johnson moved to Copper Alley, Dublin, but had to leave after magistrates determined that his premises were "not proving so consonant to the principles of propriety, as was wished".

There's no gradual undoing of propriety as there is in Lord of the Flies.

Judi Dench is also the perfect embodiment of outraged propriety as the heroine's mother.

Zell, a native Chicagoan who amassed his fortune primarily through real estate, is considerably more loyal to property than propriety, at least as defined by longtime Cubs fans.

No, America is a country where hypocrisy is conveyed as propriety, or as the backdrop for a holier-than-thou moment of repentance and renewal.

At its worst, so-called political correctness is infuriatingly pious, and is a mirror of what it opposes: aesthetic correctness, the view of literature that requires a set of rules and proprieties as stuffy and self-regarding as those of the petty aristocrats and bourgeois arrivistes Jane Austen mocked so lethally.

To initiate this experiment in CloudReports, we configure the data center, change the host configuration, and then add user proprieties, as shown in Fig. 9.

Thus, this study was designed to determine whether T. gondii tachyzoites grown in Vero cell cultures in serum-free medium, after many passages, are able to maintain the same antigenic proprieties as those maintained in experimental mice.