Sentence examples for propriety at from inspiring English sources

You could swing a baseball bat of propriety at him, and he would bounce back, beaming.

She embraced it all, flirted with the press and pushed at propriety at each twirl.

In its best moments, it has made Kenny a magical figure, while he thumbs his nose at propriety at every turn.

Jayne County, the last of Andy Warhol's Superstars and possibly the first transgender liberationist, still crosses lines of propriety at 53 with her glorious glam-rock noise.

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.

These sly put-downs may not be historically accurate, but they ring dramatically true; they tune in to the postwar propriety, at once skeptical and stoical, in which Lennon was raised, and which he never wholly shook off.

"It gives me a delightful sense of wickedness to contemplate it," she wrote to her friend, "though I wouldn't think of being so cavalier with the proprieties at home".

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of three different doses of CsA (1.5, 7.5, 15 mg/kg body weight) on the skeletal biomechanical proprieties at different anatomic sites in rats.

Comment about the astonishing violation of legal propriety made at the American Bar Association last week in London.

But that same propriety is at odds with many of the restaurant's starters and bar snacks.

I could be greatly moved by an inflexibility, a harsh propriety, that at other times I scorned.