Sentence examples for propriety it from inspiring English sources

To start, there's a hint of ethical propriety: it feels righteous to contemplate tightening the belt, cutting the fat, putting the house in order (especially when it's someone else's belt, fat and house).

But the enforcers of Internet propriety, it seems, were not prepared for the online outrage stirred up by the arrest last week of a 16-year-old boy who had publicly questioned investigators over the mysterious death of a karaoke club manager in China's northwest Gansu Province.

The use or non-use of a metrical form (or the use of prose) was a matter of propriety; it was important that the metre be suitable to the social status and ethos of the individual character as well as be suitable to the emotional intensity of the particular situation.

Except for the sculpture court, which is a little shabby but has works by Giacometti and Magritte, the Western art remains in the basement both for the sake of propriety — it is deemed offensive to modern Islamic values — and to avoid pandering to Western sensibilities.

The 113th Congress has been given that chance if it conducts the public's business with a sense of civility, equanimity and propriety, it will recapture public confidence.

In order to evaluate the dental implant design propriety, it is necessary to carry out standard fatigue tests with different loads levels, as is explained in ISO 14801.

At first it was a matter of propriety—I felt it was rude and shameful to keep it.

It assails bourgeois niceties and domestic proprieties; it rips the skin off the habitual.

At the same time, increasing doubts as to its propriety caused it to be banned or severely limited in some countries.

Atterbury's lawyer, Kevin Byers, who was romantically involved with Reynolds, opened the trial by declaring that the case was about "chronic pain treatment, propriety of it, the availability or unavailability of it in America".

This is doubtless disquieting to the people whose souls are being stolen, and it tests the limits of taste and propriety, but it makes for good theater.