Sentence examples for strict propriety from inspiring English sources

But Bano pins down the conformist pressures on both the leads: Sabrina's swinging mate Zain is as arrogantly dismissive of Muslim piety as Reza's sister is of any deviation from strict propriety.

Since strict propriety is a desirable property of a scoring rule (Bröcker and Smith 2007; Joyce 2009; Pettigrew 2011), this failing is serious.

I think there never was a theatre run on lines of such strict propriety; no breath of scandal ever touched it in all the twenty years of my experience.

Stevens (1946) even offered this pragmatic suggestion: "In the strictest propriety, the ordinary statistics involving means and SDs ought not to be used with these [ordinal] scales, for these statistics imply a knowledge of something more than the relative rank-order of data.

Does that kind of communal voice of propriety still exist?

Chinese society is heavily influenced by the traditional values associated with Confucianism, which promotes a strict system of norms and propriety.

But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?

What propriety!

Cue the propriety police!

Propriety, however, bred boredom.

Is there any propriety in it?