Sentence examples for the rectitude of from inspiring English sources

He spoke with the quiet confidence of a man convinced of the rectitude of his own position.

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….

No one could mistake the movie for a documentary, but the picture has some of the rectitude of a good documentary — a tone of plainness without flatness.

Several volunteered that the focus of the current campaign should be on the rectitude of the country's role in the world.

The rectitude of a critic who rejects the new is hardly different from the vanity of those who are utterly dismissive or ignorant of the past.

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.

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.

Her strictures on the composition of fables, a favorite salon literary genre, express Scudéry's concern for the moral rectitude of the artwork.