Sentence examples for touch of propriety from inspiring English sources

The floral wallpaper and framed ads from mid-century glossies may suggest your grand-aunt's living room or as one newcomer put it, "a dive that got a shave and put on a clean pair of slacks"—but the real touch of propriety arrives in the form of an admonition printed on the menu to male patrons "not to introduce themselves to ladies".

Mencius grants that to save the life of one's drowning sister-in-law, one of course suspends the customary rule of propriety prohibiting the touching of man and woman when they are giving and receiving.

It offends his sense of propriety.

At this, Coleridge suffered a rare fit of propriety.

Does that kind of communal voice of propriety still exist?

There was a disregard of the facts and of propriety.

I've never given much thought to the difference between English notions of propriety and Dutch notions of propriety.

The conservatory also reminds visitors of changing views of propriety.

Unauthored, unpredictable, indifferent to human notions of propriety and consequence.

Who can define "current recognised standards of propriety"?

And we would discover, democratically, our current views of propriety.