Sentence examples for too upstanding from inspiring English sources

But not unlike Mighty Mouse and Superman, the two superheroes that the boys in "Stand by Me" imagined trading blows, Mr. Jackman and Mr. Craig seem too upstanding, too cheerful, too nice to brawl.

It could be that despite his attempts to get into the gamboling spirit of things, Barry Levinson, the director, is at heart too upstanding a type to have felt comfortable embracing unrepentant amorality, even in this fanciful context.

Whittingdale signalled that he was far too fine and upstanding a man to knowingly date a sex worker, when he advertised that a woman he presumably had liked had turned out to be beyond the pale.

But he's also very upstanding, forthright and honest.

But legal cases that pass as important here in the U.S. pale in comparison to what's happening in many other corners of the world where upstanding citizens too often are hauled off to jail simply for the infraction of "insulting" another religion.

The lord chamberlain put a big blue pencil through it, deeming its portrait of a woman on the loose far too risque and damaging to upstanding theatregoers' morals.

Thanks to you, too, Brian, for being an upstanding young man when I was 19 and you were 18.

Lucas also worries that the extensive powers granted to the president by the constitution may prove too tempting for even the most upstanding of leaders.

The public-sector debt, at 104% of GDP, is still much too high but lower than in Italy and Belgium, those upstanding euro-members and is shrinking in lineuro-members andrisht conditionshrinkingo-entry.

Upstanding Schedule C filers have options, too.

Their expectations aren't too high: they'll settle for just one upstanding citizen.