Sentence examples for the rectitude from inspiring English sources
noun
Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent.
But the rectitude comes in handy as Berenson digs in his heels.
He spoke with the quiet confidence of a man convinced of the rectitude of his own position.
Ethics requires not just the rectitude to refuse wrongdoing but the resourcefulness to devise an honest alternative.
Henry VIII had used him in 1527 on diplomatic business, as one of the theologians tasked with arguing the rectitude of the King's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
A SHOWCASE about the photographer David Levinthal... Though Levinthal uses the phrase "intentionally ambiguous" to describe his pictures, we somehow know--from the rectitude of the….
Jake still sees the rectitude in that defense, and warms himself, a bit excessively, in the reverence of the local black community.
This belief, combined with beliefs about the moral rectitude of the promiser, give the promisee a sound reason to believe that the promiser will keep her promise.
Intelligent readers do not confuse the quality of a book with the moral rectitude of the characters.
Gazing from his airplane window at the farmland below, Mr. Raban remarks that the perfect grids on its landscape are "an enormous advertisement for the awful rectitude of the people.
McDonough is the picture of rectitude: the ramrod posture, the trimmed white hair, the ashen mien of a bishop who has missed two meals in a row.
Whatever the legal rectitude of the proceedings that will soon start, time will make them seem the very opposite of what the law is supposed to achieve.
