Between propriety and joy, choose joy.
But Mr Berlusconi seems to find it hard to distinguish between propriety and proprietor.
"The notion that you can very clearly draw a line between propriety risk-taking and hedging is a very difficult notion to implement," Ms. Dublon said.
And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity: the clash between propriety and desire.
Throughout his career, in movies like "Hardcore," "American Gigolo" and "Mishima," Schrader has explored male sexuality, focusing on the tension between propriety and temptation.
The Pentagon's inspector general is reviewing the propriety of emails between Allen and the woman, Jill Kelley, who sparked the probe that led CIA chief David H. Petraeus to acknowledge an extramarital affair and resign.
Headed to a Los Angeles courtroom on March 10, where she rejected a plea deal on a charge of felony grand theft, the actress trod a fine line between propriety and provocation, squeezing her frame into a buff-colored dress that clung to her curves like a seaweed wrap.
As Grand put it to us during our recent interview, "I guess in a world that is completely pure and where there is no deviation between propriety and the law, that kind of exaggeration and deliberately concentrated exaggeration can be pursued.
The attentive reader of TMS will have noticed this earlier: when he characterizes propriety as lying between the excess and defect of passion (27), for instance, or when he distinguishes the restraint of appetite out of self-interest from the virtue of temperance (28), or when he emphasizes habit (152, 324), or the superiority of friendships of virtue over friendships of pleasure (224 5).
It's a tension that Chance, like all of us, must wrestle with, between propriety and something far more fierce and wild.
