Sentence examples for propriety with from inspiring English sources

The designer has retained a few symbols of propriety (with subversive flourishes).

Mr. Penn maintained a sexual propriety with his models but extracted what he found erotic about their appearance.

(A similar reduction befell the formerly semi-independent art of tapestry, betraying its formal propriety with tricked-out illusions of deep space).

"People often confused Chris's reserved style and personal sense of propriety with a lack of fierceness on behalf of his client.

For four years now, FPI has bombed and ransacked bars and nightclubs in the name of Islamic propriety with no protest from the police.

He was the leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter.

Her sex protected her even as it hampered her, tempering her instinctive respect for the proprieties with a skepticism about the received hierarchies.

An agreement was better for these scenarios with application of the propriety filter, with kappa values of 1.00 and 0.95 compared to 0.75 and 0.77 for PERCIST and kappa values of 0.93 and 0.95 compared to 0.61 and 0.55 for EORTC, respectively.

"To appropriate and use for profit, knowledge and ideas produced by other men, without making compensation or even acknowledgment, may be inconsistent with a finer sense of propriety; but, with the exceptions indicated above, the law has heretofore sanctioned the practice," he argued.

But her archives are also full of deceptively straight-looking lace and ruffles; ladylike shirtwaists with a New Look flare; minimalist sheaths cut on the bias; and dress-and-coat ensembles in lavish brocade that flirt with propriety, or even with mumsiness, until you perceive the ironic detail that subverts them.

Emily Post must be dervishing in her grave at the thought of this impish pastime being pursued by a man who is laying down the law about propriety, even with tongue often in cheek.