Sentence examples similar to shadow of decency from inspiring English sources

Those liquid, burden-of-decency basset-hound eyes.

Such events don't seem like the stuff of comedy, but the best satire is robust, and we all live in the shadow of Swift, whose bad taste in the defence of decency knew no bounds.

Voltaire's Candide, written amid the destruction of the Seven Years War, preaches the stoical satisfaction of a peaceful plot of land providing for its owners' needs under the maxim: "We must cultivate our garden". In the shadow of horror and cataclysm, the modest goal of a happily cultivated garden is the height of decency and civilisation.

You offenders of decency.

Thresholds of decency?

This insidious note of decency depresses us.

The Legion of Decency rated the films.

That is a matter of decency.

Failures of decency closer to home.

Or the politics of decency?

This offends ordinary Americans' sense of decency.