Sentence examples for rectitude behind from inspiring English sources

The mousy school principal who hires him, Rosalie Mullins Joan Cusackk), is a model of nervous rectitude behind whose spectacles flashes a tiny glint of rebellion.

One camp sneers at the shiny high-tech brilliance of modern pianos, violins and wind instruments, whose purveyors in turn express their contempt for anachronistic squeakers and scrapers hiding technical incompetence behind the rectitude of historical accuracy.

At Paris, in 1919, US president Woodrow Wilson was the leading figure: a man with only the haziest prior interest in European affairs, but with an almost godlike sense of his own moral rectitude, he threw his weight behind a peacetime League of Nations, backed the new nation-states and hoped they would make Europe more stable and democratic.

Barlow, crisp and cool, with his hands clasped behind him, radiates professional rectitude.

Hadden-Paton also hints at a subliminal connection between the past and present Philips, who both conceal desire behind a mask of formal rectitude.

Princeton demonstrated then that behind its public face of Calvinist rectitude there was phony hypocrisy and a religiosity which meant nothing really valid.

The young John Kerry spoke of leaders who sent others to their deaths because they wanted to seem tough, then "left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude".

Behind one man, a celebrity, there is a cult of personality; behind the other, a bureaucrat, there is a cult of rectitude.

Their rectitude is chastening.

You should shoot for rectitude.

The clothes seemed to enhance his rectitude.