Sentence examples similar to standard of rectitude from inspiring English sources

On the whole, standards of rectitude and taste, sometimes in the form of puritanical reserve, were more on his mind.

Yet even a country in shock and mourning can't apply precise standards of rectitude for the resumption of high-profile entertainment and athletic events because, unfortunately, there are none.

Now it is projected to reach 79% in 2014 (see chart 3), assuming his optimistic growth forecast is correct.This is not quite the indictment it seems: normal standards of fiscal rectitude have not applied in the past four years.

"But now, even if there is some sort of culpability on his part — which I'm not even sure of — if we start forcing ourselves to hold composers to a standard of comportment and moral rectitude, where do you draw the line?" What makes presenting "Gruppen" important, he said, is how the work shows Stockhausen's response to limitations he perceived in traditional notation and ensembles in its day.

The standard of living went up and up, and the deutsche mark became a symbol of rectitude and strength.

Its treasury is a bastion of rectitude.

Tom is muddled and full of rectitude.

"I would suggest Comical Ali is the very model of rectitude compared to this fantasy stuff coming out of Lothian Road [Standard Life's Edinburgh head office]," he said.

Most of us know nonbelievers who are pillars of rectitude.

To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

In a fit of rectitude, he cuts the lines..