Where we saw rigidity on moral and social issues, they saw rectitude.
There's a gap in the political market for a centrist party which combines economic rectitude with social compassion.
When The Economist declared ten years ago that Canada was "cool", with its mix of social liberalism and fiscal rectitude, it was a startling idea.
Conservatives like to contrast what they see as a Confucian stress on social harmony and moral rectitude with the West's emphasis on individual rights.But the rival camps are still at daggers drawn.
In fact, if my government doesn't start focusing on social justice and moral rectitude instead of micromanaging the economy, I might just start speaking up a bit more... "So, what is it that you're waiting for somone else to do that you could be doing yourself?" For more by Garry Gilfoy, click here.
Loury's plea for a more socially conscious public policy and "social vision" seems so earnest in its moral rectitude as to be almost quixotic.
Political institutions as such are regarded by Thoreau with distrust, and although he probably overestimates the extent to which it is possible to disassociate oneself from them, he convincingly insists that social consensus is not a guarantee of rectitude or truth.
In 1993, a publication of the Ministry of Public Security praised Li for "promoting the traditional crime-fighting virtues of the Chinese people, in safeguarding social order and security, and in promoting rectitude in society".
What is the appeal to them of supporting a system based on a novel, and one that devalues as the scum of the earth all their friends on social networks, if not themselves, saving moral rectitude for a small, corrupt, greedy and polluting elite?
Years of war and economic decline produced a national mood of "fear and anxiety," mobilizing evangelical organizations, amateur social scientists, and reactionary newspapers to call for "moral reform and public rectitude".
