Sentence examples for rule of propriety from inspiring English sources

She says: "In any case when you interview an applicant, it is a fixed rule of propriety that in your house she should stand".

Mencius grants that to save the life of one's drowning sister-in-law, one of course suspends the customary rule of propriety prohibiting the touching of man and woman when they are giving and receiving.

"By all the rules of propriety," Doukas said, "we should have been stopped by someone".

But the rules of propriety must be different when you're trying to be cool outside stadiums and arenas.

His violent temper and great strength sometimes led him to go beyond the rules of propriety, and in May 1743 he was placed under arrest.

candor that has popped claws in show business society, which plays faster and looser than old-money circles in New York or even Pasadena, but still has unspoken rules of propriety.

Guillaume Apollinaire, champion of the Eiffel tower, which in its day created a similar scandal, would have loved this other challenge to the century and the rules of propriety.

As such, it cannot be eradicated but only regulated by rules of propriety and ritual action.

Another philosopher proposes to apply this idea of suspending the usual rules of propriety to save something else from drowning the entire Empire!

Rituals and convention were not meant for him, as he announced boldly in response to a charge that he had contravened the rules of propriety in seeing his sister-in-law off on a journey.

For example, Confucian philosophy to schooling prioritizes the concept of benevolence, which "consists of control over oneself in conformity with the rules of propriety" (Zhao & Guo, 1990, cited in Li, 2002, p. 157).