Sentence examples for propriety for from inspiring English sources
Like many who seek to entertain, he'll go to the edge of propriety for a laugh.
Trump's disregard for propriety, for principles, and for anyone else's view of the world is heartfelt.
He acted not as we see him in Spielberg's "Lincoln," prepared to jettison propriety for the sake of principle, but as someone scrupulously legalistic.
In retrospect, Mr. Obama may have been obliquely referring to his planned trip when he suggested that it is not beyond the bounds of propriety for the country to mark the anniversary of bin Laden's death.
The news, which was difficult to confirm, was obviously a shock, yet strangely not so; Jonny clung to the edge of propriety for most of the 25 or so years we knew each other.
Upon hearing of the development, Gene Orza, the union's associate general counsel, said: "A lot of people better keep their fingers crossed over the next few days that these matters become academic because there is a serious question about the propriety for playing these games.
Although self-consciousness can be debilitatingly intense, as in adolescence, the lack of it has its perils too, not just for propriety but for morality.Finding the right value to put on oneself is a balancing act, Mr Blackburn sagely observes, though there are no simple rules that can steer us between the Scylla of excessive self-love and the Charybdis of its opposite.
It was precisely this contempt for academic propriety — and for the sacred hierarchy of the genres, with its disdain for importing the rawness of daily life into the refined matter of history paintings — which made Rembrandt a hero to the romantics.
"We have successfully dialed the material proprieties for durability and biomechanics".
"Sherron told me that she was concerned about the propriety of accounting for certain related-party transactions," Mr. Hecker wrote in a memo to the file the next day.
The report chastises Meese for abusing the tolerance written into certain laws, for showing insensitivity to the appearance of propriety, and for doing other things that by almost any standard but Meese's were wrong.
