Indicative of respect for the proprieties was the secrecy with which the religious mysteries, such as those into which many Greek and Roman men were initiated, were evidently practiced so much so that there does not seem to be any record from antiquity of precisely what constituted the various mysteries.
She replied with apparent propriety which completely reassured Southey, but her letter reverberates with veiled sarcasm which the editor of this volume does not hear: "In the evenings, I confess, I do think, but I never trouble any one else with my thoughts.
Mr. Frayling outlines Leone's own obsession with status and propriety, which seems to be largely invested in Tuco.
By now the air is thick with a sense of social propriety, which is relieved by a section devoted to increasingly erotic erotica, complete with posted warning sign.
Evans despised Victorian proprieties, which he associated with his parents.
The designer has retained a few symbols of propriety (with subversive flourishes).
To conclude thus may seem to weight the principle of dramatic propriety with more than it can bear.
Chinese society is heavily influenced by the traditional values associated with Confucianism, which promotes a strict system of norms and propriety.
I should then have the satisfaction of leaving the exercise of the Royal authority to the personal authority of that young lady, heiress presumptive to the Crown, and not in the hands of a person now near me, who is surrounded by evil advisers and is herself incompetent to act with propriety in the situation in which she would be placed".
But that tends to conflict, sooner or later, with official notions of propriety and taste in China, which are a lot further behind.
