Years later, the idea of rebelling against Cosby's old-fashioned propriety has itself come to seem old-fashioned, making it easier to appreciate his persona as a sustained comic performance, one based on an uneasy tension between fondness and disgust.
The court observed that "this interpretation is in accordance with the usages and practice of the Government in providing for the removal of Indian tribes from their ancient possessions, with the fitness and propriety of the thing itself," and with the text of the treaty.
And the narrator of "Child's Play," after informing us that children "are monstrously conventional," relates how she and a childhood friend transgressed not simply against propriety but against human life itself.
Columbus was a private college on the California coast, a place that prided itself on decorum and propriety.
The verdict said that statements of witnesses recorded by the Gujarat police were "unreliable as the investigator's propriety in recording the statements had itself been rebutted".
The police accused and arrested 46 persons in the case; however, the investigation was criticised by the special court and was considered "unreliable as the investigator's propriety in recording the statements had itself been rebutted".
The Constitution does offer a potential path to propriety if a foreign or domestic gift presents itself: if a President wants to accept an emolument, he or she is supposed to seek permission from Congress.
There is a relevant dissimilarity between the case of the drowning sister-in-law and saving the country: one cannot save the Empire through compromises of ritual propriety, but instead by following the Way, which itself involves following ritual propriety.
This they have to do in defence of not only the propriety of their policies, but also the legitimacy of the Army itself.
The committee detailed a list of concealed high-risk activities, and determined that the CIO's so-called 'hedging' activities were really just disguised propriety trading, that is, volatile, high-profit trades on behalf of the bank itself, rather than on behalf of its customers in return for commissions.
